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| Redneck Rampage | |
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| Developer | Xatrix Entertainment |
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| Director | Drew Markham |
| Producers | Chris Benson Bill Dugan Greg Goodrich |
| Designer | Drew Markham |
| Programmers | Rafael Paiz Barry Dempsey |
| Artists | Michael Kaufman Claire Praderie |
| Composers | Mojo Nixon Reverend Horton Heat Beat Farmers Cement Pond |
| Engine | Build |
| Platforms | MS-DOS Mac OS |
| Release | DOS/Windows:Mac OS:
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| Genre | First-person shooter |
| Modes | Single-player,multiplayer |
Redneck Rampage is a 1997first-person shooter game developed byXatrix Entertainment and published byInterplay. The game has ahillbilly theme, primarily taking place in a fictionalArkansas town. Many of the weapons and power-ups border on the nonsensical, and in some ways the game is a parody of both first-person shooter games and rural American life. It features music bypsychobilly andcowpunk artists such asThe Beat Farmers andMojo Nixon.
The game was re-released onGOG.com andSteam with support forWindows andmacOS. The game is supported by theBuildGDX, Rednukem and Razesource ports.[4][5]
Redneck Rampage is afirst-person shooter.
The game offers a variety of ways for the character to regenerate health orhit points. Thesepower-ups consist ofmoon pies,pork rinds, andalcohol. A small supply of each can be carried for future use (the two exceptions being pork rinds andDelicious Googoo Clusters, which are used automatically upon being picked up). Each of these power-ups has distinct disadvantages: The more food the character eats, the more flatulent he becomes (represented by a "gut" meter in the user display), making it difficult to sneak up on enemies as the character moves forward and make a distinct fart sound frequently after eating. However, eating food does decrease the "drunk meter" slightly.
When drinking alcohol, the health gets restored and as an added benefit the character becomes somewhat less affected by enemy fire. This only works to a minor degree, and the more the character drinks, the lesscoordinated he becomes. Alcohol consumption is measured on a "drunk meter" in the user display. After consuming a large amount of alcohol, the character's movements will become erratic and the user will have difficulty controlling the character as he moves in directions that do not correspond to the input on the keyboard. The in-game video will also become grainy and less viewable. At the maximum drunk level, the character would simply fall down, followed by the sounds of vomiting and the loss of all motor regardless of user input. All of these effects would pass after a few minutes as the character sobered up. During this time, the character cannot use weapons and is essentially defenseless. The side effects of both power-up types forced the user to use them sparingly and gave another reason to avoid damage during gameplay. However, one other power-up,moonshine, gives the player increased speed for a brief amount of time, at the end of which both the "drunk meter" and the "gut meter" will reset to zero.
The game's plot revolves around two brothers, Leonard and Bubba, fighting through the fictional town of Hickston,Arkansas to rescue their prized pig Bessie and thwart analien invasion. The brothers battle through such locales as ameat packing plant and atrailer park, and battle evil clones of their neighbors. There are also male and female alien enemies. Thebosses are Assface, and the leader of the alien invasion, the Queen Vixen.
Redneck Rampage: Suckin' Grits on Route 66 is a 12-level expansion pack forRedneck Rampage. It was developed bySunstorm Interactive and released on December 19, 1997.[6] The add-on contains several new locations and textures, as well as a new ending.
Redneck Deer Huntin' is a hunting game for the PC using the same engine as the previous games in the series. It was developed by Xatrix Entertainment and released in 1998.
Redneck Rampage Rides Again is the sequel toRedneck Rampage, and includes 14 new single player levels, 7 new multiplayer levels, new enemies, weapons, and vehicles, including motorcycles and swamp boats. After Leonard and Bubba crash-land a UFO, they find themselves in the middle of the desert (Area 69). Along the way, they are hunted by aliens and must blast their way through jackalope farms, Disgraceland, a riverboat, a brothel and various other locales. It was developed by Xatrix Entertainment and released in the week following May 13, 1998.[7]
Off-Road Redneck Racing is a spin-off racing game released in 2001 for the PC. Unlike the previous games, it was not developed by Xatrix, but instead byRage Games; however, Interplay remained the owner of the IP, and thus they published it. Besides the game's namesake, the only relation to the previous games are of Leonard and Bubba on the box art, borrowed voice lines of Leonard from the original games sporadically used during a race, and slightly similar textures being used on some artwork and also in-game. This is the first and only game in the series not to use the Build game engine.
Compilations and demos include:
In the United States,Redneck Rampage debuted at #7 onPC Data's computer game sales chart for May 1997.[14] It claimed 13th place the following month,[15] before falling to positions 17 and 20 in July and August, respectively.[16][17]
Reviews for the title were mixed.Arinn Dembo, writing forCnet Gamecenter, gave the game three stars, and said it deserved "big points for its psychobilly soundtrack", "big points for being genuinely funny at times", and offered "good fun using a crowbar to beat aliens, 'Old Coots' and 'Billy Rays' to death".[18]
Next Generation reviewed the PC version of the game, rating it three stars out of five, and stated that "As creative as much of this game is, its gameplay is same-old, same-old. It's fun, but when it's over, you're more likely to remember the 'Yee-has' and health-replenishing whisky bottles instead of any of the challenge or gameplay."[19]Power Unlimited gave the PC version a score of 91% writing: "Very extensive levels, beautiful levels and very cool slogans in between. Redneck Rampage is Whiiiiooooo!"[20]
Redneck Rampage was nominated for "PC Action Game of the Year" during theAcademy of Interactive Arts & Sciences'inaugural Interactive Achievement Awards.[21]
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