Redneck Rampage

by Interplay

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• ASIN: B00001QEQZ
• Media: CD-ROM
• Average Customer Review: 2.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #14,548 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

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GameSpot Review

Just when it seemed that publishers had shipped every possible variant of the first-person 3D shooter, Interplay has pulled the genre from the swamp.

And they did it with redneck jokes. Redneck Rampage packages the Duke Nukem 3D engine with a low-concept theme - invading aliens are cloning backcountry hicks - that could have very easily fallen apart. But Redneck Rampage works on several levels - as a shooter, adventure, and humor title. This is a clever, fun, and challenging game with great characters, crisp sound effects, and inventive - though at times very frustrating - gameplay.

The backwoods deep south is near-universally the butt of jokes, and the game delivers them through the perspective of Leonard, the game's rampaging hero. In the opening scene, the Jim Varney-lookalike cocks his pistol and says he's "out to open up a can o' whup ass." His goal is to kill off the aliens who snatched a pig right out of the bed of his pickup and, it turns out, are starting their invasion of earth by cloning the moronic local folk. The aliens in the first few levels are chirping, feces-flinging gremlins, while the local yokels greet you with shotguns and rifles. Vicious dogs attack without provocation, with the exception of one mutt that remains frozen in mid-leap until you get his attention with a bullet or crowbar.

Though the tabloid alien-abduction plot feels a bit dated, there's more than enough splatter and gags to compensate. The player sends Leonard into a sewage treatment plant, dairy, junkyard, mobile-home park (complete with a nasty tornado problem), and other locales. He must find the skeleton keys that help him work his way to the nose-picking, crotch-adjusting Bubba and whap him upside the head with a crowbar to complete each level. Our hero's arsenal includes weapons such as a scattergun, a dynamite crossbow, and a gun that launches ripsaw blades. Thanks to the Build engine, he can blow up cows, trash jukeboxes, smash windows, and generally leave destruction in his wake, just as Duke could.

The game's humor works. Xatrix Entertainment invested the time to load Redneck up with endless little in-jokes and details - the game is a rich, twisted parody of the deep south. Moon Pie snacks become Cow Pie power-ups, and Leonard has a repertoire of post-killing punchlines such as "You plays with the bull, ya gets the horns." Other touches of humor are more subtle. If Leonard dives into a well and swims along an underwater tunnel, he'll come up for air in the outhouse. Health is restored by drinking moonshine and cheap-ass whiskey - but watch your intake! Too much 'shine and you'll be lurching out of control. While Leonard can "take a quick pee" to sober up a bit, more obvious scatological gags fall flat - including the straining, splashing sound effects that start up whenever he nears a toilet.

Farts aside, the game's sound effects are sharp, from the echoing crack of an automatic rifle report, to the crash of pins in the bowling alley, to Leonard's painful "ow!" when he's hit or bitten by a giant mosquito. The Reverand Horton Heat pumps out of jukeboxes in several parts of the game, and Mojo Nixon and The Beat Farmers are included on the game's soundtrack.

While shoot-outs are fun, a strong adventure element underscores the gameplay. Leonard must open fridges, run machinery, climb hidden ladders, and ride concealed elevators. The player can easily get stuck, wandering endlessly in search of the well-hidden key that will open a door and advance a level. Interplay is likely doing great business with their 1-900 hint line. Controls can be frustrating to get the hang of, especially when the player is trying to time a crucial split-second jump from a wrecked car or a bale of hay. One such jump demanded 15 or 20 practice runs. On every other level, this tight maneuvering, combined with the sometimes too well concealed skeleton keys, stalls out the otherwise addictive gameplay.

Overlooking the controls and difficulty issues, this is a fresh, funny, inventive take on a formula that grows more tired every time the FedEx guy shows up at the GameSpot offices with a box. If you liked Duke Nukem - and you're ready for a twist - you'll find Redneck a hoot. --James Glave
--Copyright ©1998 GameSpot Inc. All rights reserved. Reproduction in whole or in part in any form or medium without express written permission of GameSpot is prohibited.

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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Almost as fun as a roll in the hay with Daisy Mae, November 25, 2004

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Daniel Jolley "darkgenius" (Shelby, North Carolina USA) - See all my reviews
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= Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Redneck Rampage (CD-ROM)

Having just had the chance to reacquaint myself with Redneck Rampage for the first time in several years (yes, it is possible to play the game in Windows XP - but I'll get to that), I found it just as much fun as ever. This game never got its proper due, mainly due to the subject matter and such overshadowing contemporaries as Quake and Duke Nukem back in the mid-90s, but it is impressive on just about every level: gameplay, graphics, music, sound, and humor. The game was built using the Duke Nukem 3D engine, and this allows for plenty of entertaining interaction with the gaming environment; the level of detail is obviously lacking when judged by today's standards, but this remains a vivid, fun, quirky, and complex world to play in. All kinds of sound effects further add to the game's special charm, especially the phrases and exclamations your redneck hero mutters from time to time (all of which are not perfectly suitable for youngsters - thus, a parental lock feature allows you to take some of the redneck out of the redneck).

You play Leonard, and you're not happy. Gosh-durn aliens have landed right here in Hicksville, and they are cloning regular folks like Billy Ray left and right; that's bad enough, but now they've really gone too far - those alien scumbags have gone and stolen your fav-o-rite pig. It's time for them to pay; your pal Bubba is a little soft in the head (and the fact that you whack him upside the head with your crowbar to end each level isn't helping him any in the brains department), so it's up to you to show these aliens who's boss in these parts. You fight your way through fourteen intricate levels which take you all over town (junkyard, drive-inn, sewers, smelting plant, chicken processing plant, mortuary, etc.) facing a cast of bad guys including Skinny Old Coots, the aforementioned good-ole-boy Billy Ray clones, that pesky, sharp-shootin' sheriff Lester T. Hobbs, and annoying alien critters as those nasty, slippery Turd Minions, alien Hulks, and the curvy but ultra-deadly alien Vixens. You start out with your trusty crowbar, but you can find all sorts of nice implements with which to make your point: shotgun, huntin' rifle, dynamite, crossbow, ripsaw blade shooter, and - if'n you kill an alien hulk, a loaded alien space gun.

Don't go looking for any of those fancy medical kits to take care of your deteriorating health; you survive by munching cow pies, drinking beer and liquor, and - when it's true rampage time - homemade moonshine. Too much liquor makes you drunk as a skunk, and too many cow pies slow you down. The game is more challenging than you might expect, too. If you're as bad a gamer as I am, you will likely find yourself wandering back and forth all over a given level looking for that last darn key you need; the good news, though, is that all but a couple of the secrets you need to find are at least intuitive. Even when you're stuck, you can enjoy the music that drives this game forward; it includes foot-stompin' tracks from the likes of the Reverend Horton Heat and Mojo Nixon. This is just good old entertainment with no redeeming quality whatsoever.

I do want to let folks know that this game will run on Windows XP. You'll need to get hold of a couple of files, which you can find online (look up Bertram's Lair to find a tutorial for running the game on XP), and there's a certain way you need to start the game, but there's really very little to it - and the game runs like a charm.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A hilarious and challenging game, March 7, 2000

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jon_s_s "jon_s_s" (brighton, uk) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Redneck Rampage (CD-ROM)

Read the full-length Amazon review above, it's pretty spot-on. This really is an extremely funny game -- and if you don't want the increasingly challenging levels to get in the way of the laughs, it's well worth getting the cheats from fan sites you can link to at Interplay's homepage. Thoroughly recommended.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars What is everybody talking about!, May 15, 2001

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Artem "mobiledj" - See all my reviews

This review is from: Redneck Rampage (CD-ROM)

This game is very good. It is loaded with awesome weapons and leavels, the graphics are pretty good, and it is pretty funny. Some parts are acually somewhat realistic. For example, If you drink to much bear to raise your life you become drunk. It becomes hard the shoot and control the guy. It is a cool game