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[GruBBworM]

This Game rocks!!

:-)

[moycon]

Really? I heard it was terrible. Like frustrating to control to the point of not being very fun. Not true? It looks pretty good graphics wise but I didn't even try it out because it was getting panned in just about every review I had read.

[GruBBworM]

wow really

it's a fast paced game very entertaining my kids and I love it moves are very easy to control and very simple to do. this is the main reason the kids like it so much plus ya get to tear up a lot of stuff and yeah eat people lol.

[Jess Ragan]

I think people just had higher expectations for a next-generation version of the game. What they got instead was a straight port of the GameCube release with a few new characters.

JR

[bretthorror]

I've played the game for GC, it's pretty fun for a budget title.

Considering you get two older titles with it, I'd say it wouldn't be a terrible buy. When it hits the bargain bin, I am going to pick it up. Unless by some chance I find it on GC or PS2 for $10 or so. I figure the original Rampage would be $5 on the VC and World Tour would be $8, so that's $13 worth of games (relatively, anyways).

[figgler]

bretthorror, on Mon Feb 12, 2007 6:24 AM, said:

Considering you get two older titles with it, I'd say it wouldn't be a terrible buy. When it hits the bargain bin, I am going to pick it up. Unless by some chance I find it on GC or PS2 for $10 or so. I figure the original Rampage would be $5 on the VC and World Tour would be $8, so that's $13 worth of games (relatively, anyways).

Good point. And, I really enjoyed this game when I was playing it for GCN. It's Midway, so don't expect too much, but for a new gen Rampage it's certainly better than it could have been.
Is there a way for the Wii version to read your GCN memory card or anything? The Cube version was good enough in my books that I'd buy the Wii game (if it was really cheap like $15 or less), but then only if I can use my saves somehow. I'd hate to start over after unlocking a handfull of monsters and upgrading them.

[moycon]

Well this was one of the cheaper Wii titles, The price is definately right.
I think I will pick this title back up. I was kind of on the fence when I returned it. I've always been a fan of Rampage so I probably would like it.

[jpfalcon2003]

i'm getting this game. Great price. Rampage was one of the games i played as a kid and loved.

[MCHufnagel]

Jess Ragan, on Mon Feb 12, 2007 2:22 AM, said:

I think people just had higher expectations for a next-generation version of the game. What they got instead was a straight port of the GameCube release with a few new characters.

JR

I don't know where anyone would have gotten those expectations from. We know that GC and Wii graphics aren't much different and this is Midway we're talking about.

By the way I do have the GC version and I like it quite a bit.

[BydoEmpire]

I just can't get into it. The controls feel sluggish and unresponsive. The basic premise is fun, the presentation is good, and the gameplay *would* be fun, but the poor controls totally ruined it for me.

[Jess Ragan]

I just played the game a couple of days ago at the college. It seemed... okay. If I had walked into GameStop and bought the GameCube version for $20, I would have been reasonably satisfied... but paying twenty dollars more for exactly the same game on a more advanced console would be much harder for me to swallow.

Sure, there are a couple of moves in Rampage that take advantage of the Wiimote's motion sensitive controller, and they do give the game a more visceral feel... for instance, the ground pound attack requires the player to hammer downward with the Wiimote, making it seem as though you're actually on top of that skyscraper, crushing the building into powder with your own bare fists.

However, I still couldn't justify paying a premium price for a budget title hastily ported to the Wii. There's not enough here to distinguish it from the GameCube version... you can't even select options by pointing at them with the Wiimote!

JR

[figgler]

Jess Ragan, on Fri Mar 2, 2007 9:04 PM, said:

Sure, there are a couple of moves in Rampage that take advantage of the Wiimote's motion sensitive controller, and they do give the game a more visceral feel... for instance, the ground pound attack requires the player to hammer downward with the Wiimote, making it seem as though you're actually on top of that skyscraper, crushing the building into powder with your own bare fists.

That sounds pretty fun actually. Make no mistake that I won't be buying this again seeing that I have the Cube version, but still. The Wii control "gimmick" is not wearing thin on me at all and I am lately finding myself interested in games I'd usually turn away from, just for the new control experience.