It must be frustrating for my relatives and friends to purchase gifts for me. My interests are almost entirely focused on video games. It also doesn’t help that my tastes are weird and obscure. For someone who isn’t deeply immersed in the medium, it’s expensive and confusing to shop blind for games.
Occasionally interesting treats can come out of this situation. My dad got me Red Dog, for the Sega Dreamcast, which was a surprisingly entertaining game. Blind purchases can end terribly though. He also bought me Rampage: Total Destruction for the Wii.
Rampage: Total Destruction isn’t a bad game. It’s largely faithful to the core concept of the original arcade game: You’re a giant monster punching buildings, eating people and doing other King Kong-like things.
The Wii version, however, is a bad game. Originally released on the PlayStation 2 and GameCube, Rampage: Total Destruction wasn’t built with the Wii Remote in mind. It has the worst controls by requiring non-stop waggling to simulate button presses.
I’ve always been a big fan of the Wii and rarely understand the complaint of sore arms. In this case, it was 100 percent true. After one set of stages, your arm is ready to fall off from non-stop waggle.
I honestly wouldn’t mind checking out the GameCube or PlayStation 2 version someday, but I can guarantee you I’ll never touch the Wii version again.
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