Rampage World Tour (1997) - MobyGames (2025)

The Good
I still remember the original Rampage eons ago in the arcade and this first time it hit the NES back in the day, I was salivating like crazy even though the NES was lacking, it was still fun to play a home version of Rampage.

Well, a while back I was strolling through an arcade one day in Atlantic City and thought I was imagining things when I saw "RAMPAGE" on the front of an arcade machine, but I did a double take when I realized it was a sequel. Needless to say, I damn near had a stroke. After pumping close to $15 bucks into that sucker, I was jumping for joy at the though, "Oh man, I hope this gets released on the consoles one day".

Well one day it crossed my mind and started on a search for this game and low and behold I found it on the Playstation and damn near had a heart attack before I could pop it in. Needless to say, I was floored. The game seems to be a perfect port of the arcade

Now true, the graphics are a bit degraded due to being a home console, but they were still damn good for a Playstation. The sound effects were awesome and the growls of the monster along with the people screaming, explosions and buildings collapsing just made my spine shiver in ecstasy.

The Good
Rampage is the conversion from the arcade game of Rampage. Set across the 2D side-scroller world, you must destroy Scumlabs Inc. (for reasons not mentioned in the game). The update to N64 came with greatly updated graphics, better resolution, and bigger cities to destroy, as well as many other things. The list goes on.

The greatest part of this game is thats it has three player co-op. Its just so much fun that you can spend hours just playing this game with friends. It's hilarious. You can step on cows, destroy trains, eat graves, and puke on your friends. You can even fight each other. All the while millions of enemies are in your way like tanks, helicopters, and battle-mechs. The gameplay is hilarious and is gaurunteed laughs. Another great part is that there is unlimited lives, so the frustrations of the arcade with quarters is gone, and there is unlimited fun.

Destroying buildings is really fun too. There are dozens of ways to do this. Kicking, punch, jumping on top of it, using tanks, spacecraft, and special moves. The combinations are countless. Eating people, though there aren't as many ways, is still fun.

Levels have been changed since the arcade to be bigger. The level scrolls and loops around, so either direction you go in will bring you to the same building. The levels are 2D like the arcade (would they really be good in 3D?). The buildings go higher too. The stage scrolls up just for some buildings.

Graphics are superb for a side-scroller. Tons of enemies and bullets are on the screen and the game will never lag up. The movements are smooth (most of the time).

Enemy AI is good for the most part. Sometimes confused citizens will walk right into your hands. However, the enemies fight and shoot well, a nice added touch.

The big problem with this game is that it is only good with 3 players. The game gets its strengths with its gameplay, but with no one around to share it with, its not that great. One player gets boring and frustrating with only one person.

The other major problem is that the concept never changes. EVER. Now, the levels vary in building, enemies, and backgrounds, etc. But the objectives are always the same: Destroy all buildings. Now this is VERY fun. But after about 2 hours the gameplay gets kind of old. Whats worse is that you usually have to go about 7-10 cities before actually getting to a Scumlab. Yeah, repetitive.

Rampage World Tour is a hilarious game with addictive gameplay, but make sure you have some friends to play with or else the game loses most of its luster.