#RETRO CITY RAMPAGE DX A RIP OFF OF GTA TV#

You might check the map for a specific location, but you'll be aware of your general location, no problem.

The whole city feels like it was legitimately planned out like a city would be, and once you’ve run a few missions within the story, you’ll never feel lost. Running around a large city with different areas all worth exploring and scouring for every little hidden gem is smooth-sailing and a blast to boot. It’s a slight improvement, and more could probably be done, but the improvements are definitely worthwhile. Sadly, the slippery driving controls are still slippery (like that of the original PSOne GTA), but crashing doesn’t spin the car around in an unreasonable fashion, though being awkwardly caught in tight spaces still happens often enough, especially when surrounded by cop cars and tanks. There are more graphical options to choose from instead of the previous three (keeping a personal favorite from the original version, a green-and-yellow monochrome mode to give the impression of a Game Boy called “Brick Handheld”), the markers on the maps are larger and easier to read and follow, and the HUD is minimized enough to keep necessary information, but open up more of the screen for exploration. There isn’t a significant amount that's “new” here, hence the “DX” at the end of the title rather, like Link’s Awakening DX on the Game Boy Color, this is a re-working to make what was great the first go around even better. Hell, I can even bop on the baddie’s heads and throw their bodies around for more damage! Remember how fun the days before ratings systems were?

#RETRO CITY RAMPAGE DX A RIP OFF OF GTA TV#

This is an 8-bit Grand Theft Auto-esque title after all.)ĭrop in some “don’t worry, we changed the names to avoid getting sued” influences, like the NES Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles-inspired dam level and Smash TV rooms designed with a few Legend of Zelda boss battles in mind, and suddenly I was back in footie pajamas parked in front of the TV on Xmas morning. Or doesn’t pay him for.(Seriously, he kills a LOT of people. He’s discovered by a crazy scientist in a car with top-hinged doors that needs to reach a certain speed to go back in time too, to travel back to find the right parts so Player can get back, presumably, to do more terrible things in his time… because in both times, he’s a murdering thief who does whatever criminal acts someone’s willing to pay him for. For those who missed it the first time, RCR is the story of Player-that’s you, err, the player -who finds a time machine piloted by two gnarly dudes (insert your favorite guitar riff here), but breaks it on re-entry into the world.

Retro city rampage dx a rip off of gta