Report: Rambo arcade game is great, or sucks, depending who you ask

Rambo is a new light gun shooter, fresh in Japanese arcades. It offers slaughter from a first-person perspective. Wired's Jean Snow loves it:

The game is a blast to play. Literally. It felt very satisfying to spray bullets with the Uzi gun controllers. I've seen someone play House of the Dead in two-player mode by himself, holding both guns, and it feels like Rambo would be the perfect outlet for this, if you felt like paying double. (I didn't.) Rambo's "anger gauge" is a nice touch, and well in keeping with the fiction. Fill it up, and then press a button to go ballistic with a power boost and invincibility, until you run out of bullets.

CrunchGear's Serkan Toto, however, thinks it's garbage:

The gameplay is terrible, even for a lightgun shooter (I happen to be a big fan of this type of games). All you do is press one button and kill (almost) everything on the screen that moves. So no news there. But what is so “unique” about Rambo is that you have to keep the trigger button pressed at all times because you are killing whole armies with an Uzi - there are no single shots. ... The graphics are disappointing and Sega actually uses FMV from the movies in the cut scenes.

Photo: Wired

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[#1 posted by Enochrewt , October 3, 2008 7:25 AM]

This game looks like a hoot. I don't why you'd be blasting a Rambo game for playing like a Rambo game. If there's a good reason to to dislike it, it's because there's no bow and arrow, or M60E3 to lay waste with. That they went with an Uzi at all is kind of silly, unless you look at it from the perspective that Rambo is such a badass that he can kill thousands of people with his manpurse.