Nintendo took quite a hit in the mid-to-late 90’s due in no large part to the popularity of Sony’s PlayStation: games were cheaper to manufacture on disc and therefore cheaper to sell through to the consumer, a lot of Nintendo faithful third-parties from the 8-16 bit era abandoned ship to Sony’s platform and it had a wider range of mature games. That’s not to say that the Nintendo 64 didn’t have a lot going for it as well. As always it had its power stable of first-party franchises, like Super Mario, The Legend of Zelda, and Mario Kart, along with their Rare developed titles like Banjo-Kazooie, and most importantly Goldeneye 007. What really made the N64 stand out from its competitors though were the four controller ports on the front of the console. This design choice turned the machine into the system to own for party games: Races and battle-mode in Mario Kart, mini-game shenanigans in Mario Party, and the introduction of the first-person shooter deathmatch on consoles in Goldeneye 007.
I could be a female and you would never know.
Anyone who played the previous Turok’s should have no trouble jumping into Rage Wars as it plays exactly the same: aim with the analog stick and move with the C-buttons. A complaint I had with Turok 2 was that it felt a bit slow compared to the original Turok: Dinosaur Hunter but that’s not the case with Rage Wars which is an incredibly good thing as it’s meant to be a fast-paced multi-player experience. If you have the N64 expansion pack the graphics also look really sharp, though the small, bland looking arenas aren’t that interesting to look at visually, especially compared to the lush jungles of the first game and the architercutre of its sequel.
Though it isn’t exactly a terrible game, Rage Wars is a hard game to recommended today, and even when it was new. As far as retro N64 games go, Turok: Rage Wars is a game that won’t set you back very much, yet there isn’t enough content on the cart to hold your attention. Back when it was new it was a tough sell because the singe-player “campaign” was far too anemic to be sold as a $70 game. Another problem is that there is an option to play the campaign with a friend, something that’s always a plus in repetitive games, however there’s a bug in the game that prevents more than one player from completing the monkey tag levels. Back when the game was new someone who purchased the game had the option to get in contact with Acclaim and have them issue a replacement grey cart version of the game with this bug removed (this was before the era of patches), something that’s no longer an option and has also caused the price of this SKU of the game to sky rocket to several hundred dollars on sites like eBay.
Throw down a couple of hundred bucks and I’m yours.
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Fuck you for not liking rage wars. You obviously didn’t have any friends over to play it the multiplayer had so many characters maps weapons weapon upgrades and power ups and game types. Hundreds of hours of four player back in the day. It is ahead of its time by not wasting resources on single player and focusing 100% on multiplayer
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