Customer Reviews

Rampage: Total Destruction

5 star:		(10)
4 star:		(13)
3 star:		(8)
2 star:		(3)
1 star:		(2)

 

 

This game has been quite a fun play - but it is hard (read: impossible) to control your character without the nunchuk, even though the game says that it can support using only the wii remote without the nunchuk. I think that without a nunchuk the characters movement is controlled by how you tilt the wii remote - and when you're smacking it up and down to smash buildings there's a bit of additional movement there, so the monsters end up getting stuck in the corners and all that "fun" stuff. Once I got the nunchuk hooked up, everything was great - and I started having lots of fun playing the game.

The gameplay is fun, probably not as fun as the original, but then I'm not 12 anymore either. There are quite a few "unlockables" that will keep you busy for awhile.

Graphics - fine, nothing amazing - it'd be nice if they had done them slightly better, but nonetheless it didn't detract from the overall game experience.

I think that this is a very fun game, especially if you have multiple players - it's fun to watch people play it too.

I bought this game for my son to go with his new Wii. At first we tried playing with just the Wii-mote. It was difficult to get my monster to go where I wanted him to go. The we plugged in the nunchuk and the real fun began. Like in the original game, the monsters can climb buildings, jump, smash things, grab objects and people out of windows for a health boosting snack and pound away on each other. This was one of my favorite arcade games and with the motion sensing remote, the Wii has brought the arcade into my living room.

Not only was this game a lot of fun, it was also half the price of the other games available for the Wii.

Okay, lets get one thing out of the way right now. This is not a terribly engaging game and there's nothing overly impressive about it. You smash things, you eat people--that's about it. There is a little, but not much, variety throughout the game, and for the most part gameplay consists of just destroying various cities (which are, of course, different, but not overly so).

That having been said, this is quite an entertaining game. It's not something I'd play for hours on end and certainly more fun with another person, but it's great for releasing that pent-up aggression. And let's face it--part of the appeal of the Rampage franchise was always just the notion that you got to BE one of those huge monsters attacking a city.

The controls are adequate but not spectacular, though it's fun to swing the Wii remote around as you destroy helicopters and throw oil tankers into the side of buildings. I definitely wouldn't recommend it without the nunchuck, though--it's tough to control a monster's movement with the remote alone. There is kind of a weak story (with a very entertaining clip at the beginning) and objectives you have to meet in each city to beef up the gameplay a little, but mostly the game is just about breaking stuff. There are many new monsters to unlock as well, and I really enjoyed playings some of the new ones (read: giant chicken).

This game also has the classic Rampage and Rampage World Tour versions with it, so be prepared for a little nostalgia trip if you were into those games as well. In my opinion this is what a Wii game should be--a lot of fun without a huge time commitment or an overly detailed storyline.

The Wii Rampage is more fun since you can use the controller to hit the buildings and to jump on them. The background has nicer graphics and is 3D. But the levels are too short and the game is finished very quickly.

Who doesn't love smashing cities and eating people and kicking cars?
Same old arcade game of getting shot and eating and distroying everything but now with the Wii remote you SMASH and SWIPE and DESTROY!

This game is fun at first. Its exciting that they decided to bring back an old classic. Heres the problem. Its the same thing over and over and over and over and...... you get the point. I guess the problem is that I'm not 7 anymore so it takes a game with more depth to keep my interest.

I recomend buying this game for any of the other systems you may own. The Wii controls are a disaster and you'll find yourself flailing your arms and not getting anything accomplished.

I call this a pass.

This game is entertaining the first few times through but I can't image that this can be entertaining too many times through. Its the same smashing buildings until your face turns blue.

This is a fun game. The real problem with it is in its ultra-repetitive nature. Crush buildings, then go and crush buildings, then after that, find some buildings to crush. For 20 bucks its plenty fun, but if i had paid the typical $50 price tag of wii games, id have been a sad panda.

Well, here I am playing a game aimed at kids and wondering why I'm not thoroughly enjoying myself. Am I dumb? What, exactly, was I expecting from Rampage: Total Destruction that I didn't get? How come I'm not in love?

In the end I'm simply a victim of nostalgia marketing; those who got burned by the Star Wars prequels will know what I'm talking about. We bought a product that we thought was geared at those of us who loved the original, but was in fact a product aimed at our kids and simply packaged in a way to sell it twice: once to your average 9 - 12 year-old video gaming kid and again to that kid's 24 - 35 year-old parent or guardian or what have you, the one who played the original. It's a sneaky trick and we keep falling for it. (also, I'm a little dumb)

I'm being too harsh, of course. I should know better by now, and it's not like Total Destruction isn't any fun at all. It's a loud, fast paced, acrade feeling smash-a-thon with fun animations and decent creature design (40 different unlockables all told, including the big three: George, Lizzie & Ralph). The visuals are flashy and the audio is erractic and eclectic; all pretty obviously and successfully designed to grab and hold the attention of some young kids who eat too much sugar. It's a pretty honest, modern update of the old school formula: break buildings and try not to get shot to death in the process. But... well, without being too picky (I am NOT the target audience, afterall) it's got two very OBVIOUS AND GLARING flaws...

What's this one-player-mode & two-player-mode nonsense? Are you sersiously saying that I can't just jump into someone elses game at any time? You know what I could do in both previous Rampage games? Jump into someone elses game at any time. And you know what? It makes a huge difference. That's the whole point of arcade style gaming: I stroll up, I put in my quarter, I play for as long as I like, I leave. So, what, now my friends have to stop what they're doing completely if we want to play side-by-side? What if I only want to play for a minute and they're in the middle of a two-hour jaunt? How is that fair? It's breaking the spirit of the game and it's making this sequel LESS functional than the predecessor. And if your game sequel or reboot or redesign or whatever is, in any way, LESS functional than the originals, it's time to head back to the drawing board my friend. And speaking of...

I'm gonna come right out and say it: I hate motion controls. Sure, I liked Wii sports and sports resort, we all did. And the light gun games are super accesible now. But other than that, I'll opt for classic controlling every time. And in this case? How come I can't move my avatar with my extremely agile and dexterous thumbs? Why must I awkwardly tilt my wrist and hope that little monkey on the screen moves how I'm hoping he moves? Why must I then swing the control, completely losing all the work done by my delicate and frustrating tilting and twisting? I'm sure many people have an easier time of it than me, but why even let it be an issue at all? Hell, you've got that perfectly good nunchuck just waiting to be used to move him around. But nope, can't use that, I have to tilt at the screen like I'm rolling a marble through a maze. It's just plain frustrating and drops the enjoyement by at least half.

So why such high marks when all I've done is moan? Because Total Destruction comes fully equipped with both the NES and SNES predecessors on the same disk. It's a tip of the hat to those of us who made the nostalgia purchase afterall and... you know what? Both of those games are more fun than this one. Hell, World Tour is far and away the most fun of the three: it improves on the formula in the original with out making stupid and needless mistakes. So the score gets a bump because in the end Total Destruction is a pretty generous total package that suits both the nostalgia shopper and their sugar-high children. And, if nothing else, that's a trend that needs to be encouraged.

Happy smashing!