Sure, there had been games based on this very property – but they were limited to primitive games and arcade shooters and Rambo fans were left starving for a proper console release for a long time.
So, when developer Teyon announced Rambo – The Video Game back in 2012 with a short montage of iconic moments from the trilogy, the excitement of all Rambo fans – including myself – were through the roof. I vividly remember watching these movies and the action-packed set-pieces, and saying to myself, “They really should make a video game out of these movies”. Rambo The Video Game is obviously based upon the Rambo trilogy which sees popular action hero Sylvester Stallone take on entire hordes of soldiers using guerrilla tactics and primitive weapons like bows and knives. To that end, we ask the question – what the hell happened with Rambo – The Video Game? The game was unanimously criticized for pretty much everything it tried to do, and remains one of the worst licensed video games of recent memory. It’s generally believed that publishers and property holders to these IPs don’t seem to really grasp what makes games fun, and how best to translate a passive experience like a movie into an active one like a video game.Ī great example of this deep misunderstanding between the creators and the players is developer Teyon’s Rambo – The Video Game which was released back in 2014 for the PS3, Xbox 360, and PC.
Of course, there have been exceptions with the likes of Spider-Man 2 on the PS2 and Goldeneye007 – but they are few and far between, and thus, unable to challenge this norm. There’s a running gag in the games industry that games based on licensed properties like movies are doomed to fail, and that’s a gag with plenty of supporting evidence ranging from early Batman games to The Matrix games to many more.
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