Rampage Through Time (PS1)

by Midway Entertainment

Product Details

• ASIN: B00004RC2V
• Media: Video Game
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #14,815 in Video Games (See Bestsellers in Video Games)

Product Description

Product Description

Back when Rampage debuted as a coin-op, it benefited from a beautiful, cartoonish conceit: facsimiles of famous movie-monster mutants mindlessly mounting and destroying urban skyscrapers and gobbling up fistfuls of panicked people. Other than batting away annoying helicopters, that's all one needed. And though Rampage Through Time has updated that winning formula, it thankfully hasn't strayed too far from the original lowbrow concept. Lizzy, George, and Ralph are still there, along with five new monsters, and they're smashing their way through 20 historical settings, including ancient Egypt and the American Old West. The game has 60 building-smash rounds as well as 20 minigames. Best of all, there's now support for three players--just as in the arcade--using the separately sold Multi Tap accessory.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Worth the money, July 8, 2000

By A Customer

Durability:5.0 out of 5 stars Fun:4.0 out of 5 stars Educational:5.0 out of 5 stars 

This game, while similar to the other rampage titles, breaks up the repetition by changing the scenery every three levels and adding challenge games that are simple but addictive. The only thing I found a little detracting was that you cannot play without either friends or AI monsters. I like destroying a city by my lonesome.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars makes you want to throw a Rampage, October 20, 2005

By	Ronnie Clay "R.C." (Winnsboro, Louisiana) - See all my reviews

Fun:4.0 out of 5 stars 

I love seeing the giant mutant's climbing skycrapers and destroying tall buildings helicopters and people were running.

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Disappointed, June 12, 2001

By	Wayne Miller (The Woodlands, Texas United States) - See all my reviews

I bought this game in memory of the 6-foot arcade game, but was dissapointed. The basic gameplay is: play 3 rounds of smashing a city, then play a bonus round which is a minigame.

A few of the minigames are fun, but most of them are uninspired 2-bit games and many eras have the same bonus game.

There are always three monsters (I think the requirement is due to the way the level progression works) and the computer controls the ones the player does not. This is frustrating if you just want to tear up the town yourself or play with one other person and not have this annoying third monster smacking the two of you.

Although the ideas for the eras are imaginative, the same thing hides behind different bitmaps -- always one ground foe, always one airborne foe.

The scroll of the city is also a drawback. The whole city is larger than the size of the screen, so if you want to climb a building or go left, everyone else has to come along too.

The first cut scene was long and tedious (you sit and watch a news guy pick his nose) as well.

To sum up: The original Rampage arcade game was quick, fun game. This game is not an improvement upon the original.