Rampage 2: Universal Tour

• Release Date: March 01, 1999
• Genre: Action
• Style: 2D Action
• Similar Games: King of the Monsters (Sega Genesis), Rampage (Nintendo Entertainment System), Rampage (Atari Lynx), Rampage (Arcade), Rampage (Commodore 64/128), Rampage World Tour (Nintendo 64), Rampage World Tour (Sega Saturn), Rampage World Tour (PlayStation), Rampage (Atari Video Computer System), Rampage (Atari 7800), King of the Monsters (Arcade), King of the Monsters 2 (Arcade), Rampage World Tour (Arcade), Rampage World Tour (IBM PC Compatible), King of the Monsters 2 (Sega Genesis), King of the Monsters (Super Nintendo Entertainment System), King of the Monsters 2 (Super Nintendo Entertainment System), Rampage World Tour (Game Boy Color), Rampage (Sega Master System)

Game Description

Rampage 2: Universal Tour gives players the ability to stomp, punch, and kick everything in sight while trying to demolish a 2D city. Hostile threats include members of the armed forces, who will riddle your hide with bullets, explosives, and rockets on the ground as well as in the air. In order to clear a level, you'll have to completely destroy all of the buildings within the city.

To do this, each monster can punch at the building while climbing it or repeatedly jump on the roof until it collapses. Things to keep an eye out for are open windows that can hold assorted power-ups and food. Watch out though, there might be a hazard that will cause your monster to vomit uncontrollably. After clearing a stage, a damage report will appear with statistics in the following three areas: building destruction, vehicle destruction, and human consumption or destruction.

Rampage 2: Universal Tour will take you to three continents (Asia, North America, and Europe) in your search for the missing monsters. More than 125 levels are at your disposal to kick, punch, or stomp anything that moves, and each creature has a special attack to make things a little more interesting. Bonus points are awarded for picking up items inside buildings as well as keeping the hordes of enemies at bay, including police, tanks, helicopters, soldiers, and jets. In order to survive this chaos, each of the playable characters is rated in three areas: walking, climbing, and punching.

Other notable features include the ability to configure the controls, adjust sound levels and play on one of three difficulty levels. Up to three players can also participate in the mayhem, and they can choose whether to suffer damage from each other or to share lives. Rampage 2: Universal Tour supports feedback devices such as Nintendo's own Rumble Pak as well as the Controller Pak to save progress. Players can also continue their game via passwords provided at the end of each level.

Roots & Influences

Rampage originally debuted in the arcades in 1986, allowing up to three players to take part in city demolition using a giant gorilla named George, an angry lizard named Lizzie, or a wolf named Ralph. Points were earned through the amount of destruction each character caused, and bonuses could be awarded for items "ate" by the monsters -- including humans!

Versions of the original Rampage have appeared on such platforms as the Commodore 64, NES and Lynx, with the Lynx offering an additional character: Larry the Lab Rat. The Bally/Midway arcade hit was updated in 1998 with newer graphics and cities, but the basic gameplay remained faithful to the original coin-op. Rampage 2: Universal Tour is the first Rampage game to star three completely new characters.

Production Credits

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