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More random observations:
- The further you go in the game, you’ll build up your score and gain skills and perks such as additional health, quicker reloading, no-fail QTEs. A full list of these can be found here.
- You can also trade up to better weapons, although when the plot calls for Rambo to use an explosive-tipped arrow or a rocket launcher, for example, he’ll produce one out of nowhere anyway.
- The “Wrath Mode” is a great feature of this game. When you’ve got at least one bar of energy left, you can enable this mode so that each kill gives you energy and while you’re in it – and everything turns yellow for a brief time – you have temporarily unlimited ammo. Alas, on occasion, if I didn’t get my shots in first, the baddies still managed to blow me away. Note, this mode is the only way you’ll regain health as there are no conventional health packs.
- A few levels which did my head in were Level 8, a particular pain because there were no checkpoints during the shootout section and this took me several attempts to complete. Then, oddly, when I defeated the enemy helicopter at the end of level 11, for some reason, it stated I had been defeated! It really surprised me, to the point that when I went back for a second go, I completely fluffed the button mashing bit just beforehand and crashed my own chopper!
- Trautman Challenges: These are another aspect to the game which will enable you to earn new weapons along the way.
- Also, as I type, I’ve got as far as the penultimate level and I’m stuck on a section there, so I need to revisit my skills and perks and build up my health before getting back into it.
And I’ll also be uploading some gaming footage very shortly.
Graphically, I have to say, this does look like a game which was made a fair few years ago, rather than something brand new. Playing on a PC, the game is in 1080p – and on my nearly four-year-old quad core PC, only each level’s opening cut-scenes jittered a bit while the game played pretty much without a hitch.
For the audio, it’s full of explosions and gunfire and does the job perfectly fine. I can get multi-channel sound through my PS3 and Xbox 360, but I don’t through my PC. It’s not something I’ve looked into in great depth since, as I say, I rarely play games on the PC, but the game makes no mention of 5.1 sound.
I’ve always loved the original First Blood theme, “It’s a Long Road”. Fans of The Bob Blackman Apppreciation Society will also be familiar with it, even if they don’t realise 🙂
Overall, on-the-rails shooters are, definitely, long in the tooth and I have to admit I nearly felt like giving up early on, but I stuck with it purely because this is Rambo, and I love the first three films. As such, you do get into it more as you go, so it is worth sticking with. Just bear in mind that it’s not the greatest game you’re going to play this year.
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Important info:
- Publisher: Reef Entertainment
- Players: single player campaign, co-op: 2
- Spoken language: English
- Subtitles: English only
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| OVERALL | 6 |
Reviewer of movies, videogames and music since 1994. Aortic valve operation survivor from the same year. Running DVDfever.co.uk since 2000. Nobel Peace Prize winner 2021.