Ever try to jump over pits in a beat ’em up? It’s about as hard here, as you really have to pay attention to shadows to see where you’re jumping, and it never quite feels natural. The jumping is an iffy enough proposition as it is. Virtual controls were always going to be an issue with this game, and some of the more hectic later-game missions can be quite difficult with just virtual controls. It’s an impressive undertaking, no matter what. But it still has that feeling like it could have existed in the NES days if it was made by some crazy visionary. Like, the game isn’t afraid to have dual-stick controls or use a bunch of different buttons when necessary. And the whole thing is made by one guy, to mostly retro specifications, while not going too far in that direction. Plus, it’s got fantastic pixel art in spades, with all sorts of different color filters for your favorite retro system. The game might not be as lengthy as your average Grand Theft Auto, but I mean, I’ve never actually beaten a GTA game, so do they need to be so dense with missions? RCR has no shortage of content, especially for the price. The city is smaller, but there’s no shortage of things to do or places to explore, and there are even secret cheat codes to find and enter. What makes Retro City Rampage so impressive is the way that it really nails the whole Grand Theft Auto experience while being more compact. There’s a lot to do here, and the game revels in its goofiness. Play a minig-ame that’s like Test Your Strength from Mortal Kombat but with the Epic Meal Time dudes. Get a crazy haircut, or a Master Chef helmet. Ride a motorcycle that looks suspiciously like Yoshi. Want to thrash pedestrians around with a bionic arm? That’s possible! Get some super-fast running shoes and run over everyone. There’s a lot to do, and because the game has this parodic tone, it means you get to do some things you can’t do in Grand Theft Auto. You can advance the story with him, complete missions for others, or just run around town and blow stuff up for fun, or in one of the many mini-games that appears. The setup is very similar to Grand Theft Auto, as you either go on missions for various shady characters, with the main guy you’re working for being a very obvious Doc Brown pastiche from Back to the Future. Yet, one night it unexpectedly showed up! And while I have some issues with the game, I’m quite glad it showed up. It was on desktop (PC, Mac, and Linux!), the Vita (on cartridge too!), 3DS, Wii U (not the Wii), Xbox One, PS3 and PS4, even a demo for NES! But the new platform releases started to dry up over time, even after the DX update to the original game that brought some new features and tweaks was released. Took it long enough, eh? Brian Provinciano’s “what if Grand Theft Auto was an 8-bit game that paid homage to every classic game and notable 1980s cultural phenomenon" title had landed everywhere but mobile. Continued abuse of our services will cause your IP address to be blocked indefinitely.Retro City Rampage DX ($4.99) finally hits iOS. Please fill out the CAPTCHA below and then click the button to indicate that you agree to these terms. If you wish to be unblocked, you must agree that you will take immediate steps to rectify this issue. If you do not understand what is causing this behavior, please contact us here. If you promise to stop (by clicking the Agree button below), we'll unblock your connection for now, but we will immediately re-block it if we detect additional bad behavior. Overusing our search engine with a very large number of searches in a very short amount of time.Using a badly configured (or badly written) browser add-on for blocking content.Running a "scraper" or "downloader" program that either does not identify itself or uses fake headers to elude detection.Using a script or add-on that scans GameFAQs for box and screen images (such as an emulator front-end), while overloading our search engine.There is no official GameFAQs app, and we do not support nor have any contact with the makers of these unofficial apps. Continued use of these apps may cause your IP to be blocked indefinitely. This triggers our anti-spambot measures, which are designed to stop automated systems from flooding the site with traffic. Some unofficial phone apps appear to be using GameFAQs as a back-end, but they do not behave like a real web browser does.Using GameFAQs regularly with these browsers can cause temporary and even permanent IP blocks due to these additional requests. If you are using Maxthon or Brave as a browser, or have installed the Ghostery add-on, you should know that these programs send extra traffic to our servers for every page on the site that you browse.The most common causes of this issue are: Your IP address has been temporarily blocked due to a large number of HTTP requests.
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