Rampage: Total Destruction

by Midway

Product Features

• a trailer for NBA BALLERS PHEMON
• unique attacks and abilities for each monster
• up to four players can play at once

Product Details

• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B000EHPQMG
• Product Dimensions: 7.5 x 5.5 x 0.5 inches ; 4.8 ounces
• Media: Video Game
• Release Date: September 14, 2006
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #10,907 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

Rampage: Total Destruction offers a fresh take on an arcade classic complete with everyone's favorite monsters: George, Lizzie, and Ralph, along with a variety of new monsters to collect and play. Virtually everything in the environment can be damaged, broken, and utterly destroyed with plenty of hilarious results. Aided by power-ups, the Rampage: Total Destruction monsters are capable of acquiring a number of upgrades throughout the course of a single campaign. Players can annihilate cities all over the world in either one or two player mode in this reinvention of the Midway classic.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

23 of 23 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great mindless fun, April 28, 2006

By 

Lisa Shea "medieval swordfighting enthusiast" - See all my reviews
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= Fun:4.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Rampage: Total Destruction (Video Game)

If you're looking for a mindless, fun way to spend a few hours, Rampage is perfect. You take on a monster's personality and bash away at buildings!

We've always loved the rampage series and this latest release builds on the fun. You start out with only a few monster options - looking suspiciously like Godzilla, King Kong and so on - but there are a TON of unlockable monsters of all shapes and sizes. You start out in Las Vegas, meaning that the levels have cool hotel areas looking like a castle, a pirate ship, and so on. I wonder what those could be?

There isn't a plot here. You are simply a monster out to cause as much destruction as you can. You jump up and down on top of buildings, you kick over cars, you smash windows and you eat the fleeing people. There's a lot of humor involved. In one level your task is to eat 10 mimes - and you watch them "walk against the wind"!

The graphics are reasonably good here - when you jump in the water, it ripples and splashes. The background stretches for multiple blocks, so you get a sense that this is a "larger world" that you are destroying. Still, it's true to its arcade roots - really you are just moving left and right.

The sounds follow the same arcadey basics. You get basic bashing noises, a classic soundtrack and silly comments by the people you are eating.

I did find some of the "placement" issues troubling. I would think I was lined up to kick a car, but I'd miss it. I'd see a banana in a window and try to get myself exactly lined up to grab it, but somehow I'd miss. The game used to be about wild bashing and thrashing, but now you have to be right on target in order to hit.

Still, it was only a minor complaint, and in general the vast selection of monsters and locations really makes up for it. Perfect for killing a few hours in a relaxing, mindless way!

8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars My 10 Year Old Son is in Heaven!, June 28, 2006

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Happy Reader (Northern California) - See all my reviews
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= Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Rampage: Total Destruction (Video Game)

My 10 year old son gets frustrated with many game cube games - not because they have problems, but because he just isn't that good at them, especially compared to his older sister. This game is a dream come true to him. There're no catchy puzzles or "dying" over and over again if he doesn't figure out the "way" to get around an opponent. And, best of all, he gets to be King Kong and a T-Rex and other assorted monsters. He was also careful to point out to me that though it is based on destruction & mayhem, its rating is E-10 because there's no gore or blood and it is make-believe monsters doing the destruction. When a monster eats someone, it gulps them down whole!

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Beasties everywhere!, May 23, 2006

By 

R. Howell "boriskhan" (Medford, OR) - See all my reviews
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= Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Rampage: Total Destruction (Video Game)

The newest version of Rampage is a welcome addition to the family. We now get to go 3-D with it and cause some serious damage to cities. There are 30 monsters to play if you unlock them all and most of them are pretty damn cool. Each level has it's own side-challenge goal for you to accomplish for power ups. Graphics are pretty darn good and the interaction you can get with grabbing cars and throwing them is a blast. There are signs on buildings that poke a little fun at real-world people, movies, and businesses that is just an added bonus of humor. There's no educational value to this game but it is great fun and gives you a mindless few hours of taking out your anger on the populace of the Rampage world. I recommend this game to waste a few hours of down time but you'll end up playing it longer with each new monster you unlock. One of my favorite parts... the game automatically saves for you unlike many previous versions of this game-family, and of course there's the cheat codes if you can find them.