Redneck Rampage Collection

Redneck Rampage is an FPS key-hunt set in within the worst-designed Build engine game ever made. It lacks almost all of the things that made the 90s-era Build games so interesting: buildings are designed either as boring boxes with no interactivity, or convoluted mazes that are frustrating to traverse; the artwork is so poor and low res that it's often difficult to discerne the important features in the ugly, boring world around you; the enemy animations are terrible and stilted, even for the time; and the audio is relentlessly repetitive, which, coupled with the terrible stereo that makes it impossible to tell which direction the sound it coming from, results in a game best enjoyed in silence. Nothing about the gameplay design makes sense either. Dogs take three times as many shots to kill as the humans; shotgun enemies can kill you in seconds from great distances; secret areas are hidden behind walls that look exactly the same as every other wall, meaning that stumbling into them is pure chance; sometimes collectible keys are sprites, but occasionally they're built into the wall textures, and are easy to miss because the textures are awful; and all the keys are indistinguishable from one-another, so you can't ever tell what the key you've collected is supposed to unlock. The fog of nostalgia is quickly lifted once you boot RR up. It is terribly designed - ugly, unintuitive, unbalanced, and tedious. I will, however, give it an extra star for the neat fact that drinking restores health and yet gets you drunk, and food reduces drunkenness but makes you fart, which often turns you into a stumbling ball of gas with a gun. That's hilarious. Redneck Rampage as a whole, is not.

Redneck Rampage uses the Build engine, like Duke Nukem 3D, Shadow Warrior and Blood. I have to say this game is the worst of the bunch, but still worth playing. I really like the hillbilly theme, the music, the one-liners are funny, and I dig the health system too - you have to consume alcohol and food to increase yer health, but you have to balance them out, or either you get too gassy, or get shitfaced - in this case you literally cannot control your character, so it's kinda annoying. But there is a huge problem with Redneck Rampage: the shooting. It doesn't feel smooth at all, more like awkward, jittery and unprecise. And this is a shoot-em-up game, so you'll shoot 95% of the time. The other problem is the levels (I'm talking about the base game now): they are kinda hit and miss, there are a few great levels (for example J. Clucks or the Mortuary), but there are horrendous, neverending mazes too (like the Sewers or the Mines). The first level took me like 50 minutes to complete, because I just could't find that first key. A walkthrough is very handy for these situations, but I don't think it should be necessary for an FPS like this. Also, the game is way too hard. The enemies do bullshit damage, and a lot of time they just oneshot you (Vixens), and can shoot you with deadly precision from the other side of the map. They can also shoot through walls because of the clipping problems. Oh, and you barely get ammo for your better guns. Wonderful. BUT, this package contains the two expansion packs too, Suckin' Grits on Route 66 and Rides Again - they add 11 and 13 new levels respectively. And I have to say, these are much better games than the base one. All have great levels, that flow much better, better enemy placement, more ammo, usable vehicles (they control like ass, but hey, Build engine...) and much more. I think its worth to buy this collection just for the expansions.

The soundtrack alone is worth the price of admission. Still have the original game, but no computer to run it on. DO have the soundtrack sitting on my iPod though!

I'm a Mac user. I used to play this game on a PC before the machine broke down. This game was one of the only things that I missed from the PC. Now that I have it and on a Mac for that matter I'm happy as a clam. Plus I get the spinoff and the sequel as extras. I didn't ever think to get those. Thanks GOG. I repeat, I'm a Mac user and I LOVE this game.

Redneck Rampage is worth it just to get them alien varmits out of Graceland and see Elvis' grave. Riding a motor cycle with machine guns is fun, too.