But the open-world shenanigans you can get into are far more interesting than many of the missions. The parody nature of the game – this game is a parody, did you know that? Because they’ll tell you at every opportunity in case you’ve forgotten – comes in with follow stages, like when you need to track someone moving so slowly in their car that you need to walk. These sorts of top-down open world games mostly have missions like driving a person to a spot, shooting up people, and other tropes we’ve all experienced. From there, you meet up with Doc Choc to repair a time machine and get back to your own time, all while running missions, collecting things, driving over people, and generally creating mischief. Starting in 1985 Theftropolis, RCRDX has PLAYER committing felonies with his crime boss Jester – until a bank robbery escape sends you to the year 20XX. And the new DX inclusions – reworked missions, new letterboxing, and a host of other changes and modes – will make old fans want to come back. It’s everything you wanted back then, with a fair amount of extra gameplay enjoyability to spare. Retro City Rampage’s gameplay is what 15 years of game design evolution will do to a relatively simple top-down like the original GTA. When we discovered cheat codes, it was like someone turned on a light in a dark room. We compared scores in hushed tones at our lockers. We split custody of it like a divorced family – I got it during the week, he got it on weekends. All we had to do was pool our money together to buy it. Rumored to have been banned all over the world, anecdotally responsible for people stealing cars and running over Hare Krishnas, and there it was. On the shelf in front of us was the game that would start a revolution – it was Grand Theft Auto. Over 15 years ago, I stood in an EBGames (ask your parents).

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