VHS: The Trailer

[Obiwanshinobi]

Make of it what you will.

[Damocles]

So...uhh...I saw a few deputies and national guard meeting gruesome ends. Other than a few accidents, I don't quite remember First Blood going that way.

Other than that, I saw very little gameplay and a horrible Stallone character model.



So what were you actually trying to link to? The VHS redband trailer?

[Obiwanshinobi]

You don't like the model?

[Udderdude]

Looks like a game from 8 years ago .. and yeah the Rambo model looks like garbage.

[Obiwanshinobi]

Looks like Way of the Samurai 3 (360 port) to me, down to the character model.

[system11]

I ... like it. It looks like it might be some fun garbage for a weekend playthrough.

[drauch]

I definitely pumped for it. I don't care what it looks like, as long as I get to play as John Rambo. I've been waiting for a game like this forever. Rambo III for Genesis is the ultimate Rambo game in my opinion, but after Rambo(4), we needed a modern action game. Hope this was worth the wait!

[BIL]

First Blood with rampant cop and weekend reservist killing action seems a bit goofy, tbh. Guess they can't make it a survival adventure with the occasional rock-chucking QTE though.

Rambo III for Genesis is the ultimate Rambo game in my opinion

Just picked up a copy of this for my MD. Game owns, Commando-style. Another candidate for the great slowdown thread when you put it on Hardest and hose down a dozen advancing commies with the spray n' pray. *buddabuddabudda* plus AUTHENTIC KNIFING ACTION (sneak up on and knife motherfuckers for chaining score bonuses + ammo for the other two special weapons! Actually forget sneaking, you can flat-out rush in stab if you accept that a split-second's hesitation = get shot). And the frickin' awesome charge shot flamey arrows.

I was scouring IMDB to see whether that was really Rutger Hauer's digitised thousand yard stare in stage 2, no luck though. THIS DUNGEON WILL EXPLODE IN TWO MINUTES. Thanks chum!

[system11]

You guys just cost me £10 after watching a MD Rambo III video. Found a JP copy in the UK. Probably developed in the west of course but my machine is unmodified.

[BIL]

I've a hunch it and Mystic Defender/Kujaku Ou 2 share at least some of the same Japanese team from Jewel Master (unfortunately only JM has a staff roll). Besides graphical and audio similarities, and a fondness for charge meters in Rambo and MD, all three share a distinct, sparingly animated and crisply responsive feel. Some of my favourite lesser-feted Mega Drive games. None push the hardware or are particularly ambitious, but they're simplicity done right.

[Mischief Maker]

Rambo 3 -Dedicated to the freedom fighters of the Mujahideen.

Now THERE's a movie that hasn't aged well!

I guess that explains why Rambo is busy killing american cops in this new game.

[Damocles]

Rambo 3 -Dedicated to the freedom fighters of the Mujahideen.

Now THERE's a movie that hasn't aged well!

I guess that explains why Rambo is busy killing american cops in this new game.

I re-watched "The Living Daylights" last weekend. Yeah, I totally didn't remember him riding with the Mujahideen.

Whoops.

[Obiwanshinobi]

Ask yourself whether the you of the nineteen-eighties would know what you're posting about. Game engine? What is it?

[Udderdude]

I don't know if I'd know what a game engine is, but I could tell if a polygon-based game character had a face that resembled a cardboard cutout.

[Obiwanshinobi]

If you can't remember FX Fighter (running at varying speed, depending on the computer), you might not really be the target audience.

[gameoverDude]

Shame that the Sega 2008 arcade Rambo gun game hasn't been done for Move (and on another story, Virtua Cop 3).

[drauch]

^Yeah, seriously. I don't want to have to import an entire damn cabinet to get my Rambo fix.

[system11]

I have ordered this. Hopefully I will be able to report this weekend.

[Octopod]

I'm pleased to see they included the hidden in mud bit. When I was a kid that shit blew my mind.

[shmuppyLove]

DAT HAIR

[Obiwanshinobi]

Unlikely to be as good a game, but the response (to trailers) reminds me of game journalism writers' and readers' respone to Ghost Squad: everybody embarrassed by just how badly they needed it.