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You can pull off some stomps and smashes by smacking the remote up and down like a toddler with a toy hammer, and do wind-up punches by waving the remote back and forth as if you were trying to hail a cab. The basic controls for these moves are mostly mapped to the Wii Remote. Those moves include, and are basically exclusive to, climbing up and punching, kicking, or stomping buildings, picking up and smashing cars, picking up and eating people, and a few special moves that can be earned as you spend more time playing as a specific monster. Each monster has a few specific stats that supposedly make them better for jumping, running, or smashing, but the tangibility of these differences is minimal at best, and the moves are the same across the board for every monster. However, no matter what monster you choose, you're basically playing the same character throughout. The three main monsters from the old games-George, Lizzie, and Ralph (a gigantic gorilla, lizard, and werewolf, respectively)-are on hand for this version, as well as a whole host of other monsters, like a Cyclops, a giant fishman, a giant squidman, a big rock thing, something that might be a jackalope, and others. But that story never extends beyond the opening cutscene and is completely secondary to you busting tall buildings as if they were chiffarobes or something. Total Destruction toys with bringing in a bit of a plot to the proceedings, setting up the creation of the game's various monsters via a failed taste test of "Scum Soda," which mutates all its subjects horribly. Giant monsters roam from city to city, busting down every building that comes into their path so they can move onto the next block and do it all over again. The premise for Rampage: Total Destruction is as simplistic as any of the previous games to bear the name.
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Rampage: Total Destruction wasn't a fun game seven months ago on the PS2 or GameCube. Unfortunately, these controls feel just as half-baked and irritating as the rest of the game. But whereas the PlayStation 2 and GameCube versions of Rampage that were released several months ago slavishly dedicated themselves to the same brand of repetitious button mashing that the arcade games did, the new Wii version tries to futz with the formula by adding in new motion-sensing controls. Now, that style of gameplay simply feels punishingly repetitive, rather than goofy and fun. You wander around the same types of two-dimensional environments (though now they're in pseudo-3D), punching the same buildings and eating the same people that you did back in the '80s. The problem is that the gameplay simply hasn't evolved over time. There hasn't been a new version of Rampage in half a decade, and after playing Rampage: Total Destruction, the newest installment in the series, it's not tough to see why.
It was the kind of simplistic, button-mashy fun that could fly in a simpler time, a game designed specifically for mindless entertainment and to keep you inserting quarters.
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Midway's Rampage series took arcades by storm back in the late '80s, providing players with the ability to storm through various metropolitan areas of the world and destroy them with gargantuan monsters.
The only thing more depressing than a remake of a classic game that isn't very good is a remake of a classic game that simultaneously isn't good on its own merits, and also manages to bring you to the realization that the classic game on which it's based isn't as good as you remember it being.