During another mission, you get to suffer through an extended diatribe where a thinly veiled stand-in for Microsoft (led by a sweat-drenched Steve Ballmer stand-in) discusses how they’re going to screw indie developers. During one “chase” mission, you tail a car by walking, and have to pick up regular hits of coffee to stay awake (because video game chase missions tend to be slow and boring. There’s also an unsettling tendency for RCR’s humor to swerve drastically into painfully self-aware, self-referential navel gazing about the nature of video games themselves. The second through 50th times, it’s just part of the scenery. The first time you pass a business called “Epic Falafel,” you might grin. In either case, like a “Weird Al” song, the jokes tend to be funny the first time and quickly lose their edge with each subsequent exposure.
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These references range from embarrassingly in-your-face (a Dr. After that, I gave up my quest to list every single shout-out, but trust me, the list only got longer from there. In the first half hour of playing, I noticed references to Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (NES), Mega Man, Ducktales, Duck Hunt, Battletoads, River City Ransom, Grand Theft Auto, Bomberman, Mortal Kombat, Batman (NES), Frogger, and Sonic the Hedgehog. The sheer volume of these references is overwhelming even for someone who grew up steeped in games and the culture surrounding them. Like a Weird Al album, RCR is marked by a reliance on jokes that require a deep knowledge of pop culture, heavily tilted toward retro gaming (as the name implies). I’d argue this is both a good and a bad thing for the game, no matter what your opinion of Yankovic’s popular brand of music satire is. With Retro City Rampage, indie developer Brian Provinciano is quickly establishing himself as the “Weird Al” Yankovic of video games.
#Lose your marbles blouse Pc
Platform: PC (reviewed), PS3, Vita (XBLA and WiiWare coming soon)
Game Details Developer: VBlank Entertainment
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