Rambo: The Video Game - Gameplay Overview

Chris and Griffin explore a bizarre reflex-based morality system in this Overview of Rambo: The Video Game. More from Polygon:
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[@haphazardlark1502]

I really enjoy the amount of times Chris says “no” in the intro, not in disbelief but outright refusal.

[@Dajjal-chan]

It does somewhat bother me that this game's understanding of ethics seems to be that if a Vietnamese citizen were being shot at by the police and acted in self-defense they would be bad bad cop killers, but if they were to come to the US and start murdering soldiers they would be extra good boys for shooting as many as possible in the head, especially if they could do so quick succession. It does somewhat bother me that this country's understanding of yeah you get it.

[@RileyLaRoux]

god i love rambo's gentle little kicks

[@athodyd]

I wish they went more with the book than the movie, where Rambo kills the hell out of nearly everyone in the police department and escapes balls naked on the back of a Harley.

[@BrentBlueAllen]

This came out in 2014? Is it a port of an arcade game from 2006?

[@Proudstar]

6 years later and it's still 45$ on the PS3...

[@coffin7904]

lol

[@laurafrakinroslin]

I’ve found it. A McElroy video I watched before I got into the McElroys. I knew there had to be one. Also I don’t understand how this is a game anyone would play for fun.

[@DrewBoggess]

It's like a Dave and Buster's shooter.

[@chikachikadee]

I believe they put a good amount of budget into the size of his hair.

[@gadafk]

the first time he misses the QTE made me fucking scream

[@8tymology]

mmm whatcha saaay

[@ralujk]

it may be the *first* quicktime-based morality system but it’s no detroit: become human

[@JohnDoe-wl5xm]

i refuse to believe this wasnt originally a ps2 game

[@steamyrobotlove]

Man, when this game inevitably ends up in the bargain bin, I will be all over it.

[@SomethingImpromptu]

As a left-winger, watching the massacre of hundreds of Vietnamese peasants, justified purely “because they were communists” just reminds me of watching the Winter Soldier testimonials of Veterans Against the Vietnam War talking about all the people they mutilated, and burned, and poisoned with chemical weapons. Tbh the fact that this is marketed with the intention of people being like “Yeah, this is bad ass! Kill those Charlie b*stards” is pretty saddening to me as an American. It also gets me thinking, in 30 years will they be making games of the Gulf War, where you gun down retreating Iraqi soldiers, a Libya NATO bombing game where you blow up Tripoli, or a Nicaragua simulator where you play as the Contras and torture civilians with methods you learned at the School of the Americas? Like, if we can really look back and shamelessly glorify what we did in Vietnam as entertainment just a few decades later, then why would I expect them to draw a line with any other war crimes? Not a judgement of Polygon- I enjoy your content and you didn’t design the game... But geez, really makes me think about how propagandistic a lot of those Cold War/post-Cold War anti-communist movies were, and makes me hope I’m not the only one who sees this and is like “Whoooa.” Just to note it, I’m anti-Leninist/Maoist/Stalinist personally, and I have huge problems with the form of revolutions in China, the USSR, Vietnam, etc., so I’m not trying to say that the conditions in any of those places were ideal or that we should repeat that kind of course again, by any means. But still, media that paints it as a good and heroic to massacre dozen after dozen of Vietnamese people really did play the role of revising history to make it look like a glorious endeavor, and to legitimize and desensitize people to the use of state violence on a giant scale. It’s also just a fact that in the case of Vietnam, a lot of the resistance to the invasion was localized in people’s villages... So it literally is basically just average Vietnamese citizens who took up arms against an invading occupier who you gun down throughout that game. I just think it bears critically analyzing this kind of media so that we can learn from history and not be led to repeat it.

[@blizzyblob]

Jesus christ its a video game, god you sound like the guy at parties who rambles on even though its obvious to everyone but him that people are fucking annoyed.

[@coffin7904]

Tldr

[@coffin7904]

​@@blizzyblobI dig your car and yer taste in music. Come take me for a ride lol

[@JacobPlays136]

16:43 they missed the chance to say "he is the oiliest man to have ever *greased* this planet"

[@roidroid]

0:54 panning in from the far right, IS THAT *PAUL BLART?!*

[@personalwurm7947]

8/3/2018 Rambo: The Video Game is unpurchasable on Steam.

[@ojcorp]

never apologize for killing cops, griffin

[@Swamy456]

Because he gets got in the guts, dawg. How you think guts work?

[@kyrridas1573]

"i think you mean jifs" Griffin, i didnt know it was possible to hate you until now.

[@thebinarybiscuit]

I'm going to assume he's being typical Griffin, and that he's just being a troll...

[@katpanda27]

@@thebinarybiscuit exactly like how you pronounce his name -- Jriffin.

[@IsoMorphix]

Oh woops this is actually a Hot Shots: Part Deux game.

[@ethanradd]

This is art!

[@misterkingdom3571]

These graphics are painful. This game looked like it was sucked into a time portal from the year 2006.

[@lokiiago_x0x]

Hello from 2023! 🎉 Hope you’re having a great day!

[@suricrasia]

anyone notice the arm that went wild at 6:50?

[@kyro8559]

Guys guys guys. Rambo’s in the MULLETary Get it? It sounds like military.

[@straka9992]

"magnicifent"

[@veggie88]

Why is Griff playing a video game with what sounds like a real life leprechaun?

[@monstercameron]

lol at you guys having a laugh with this game.

[@8tymology]

33:16 -69 ＣＯＰ ＫＩＬＬＥＲ

[@ojcorp]

23:13 dario argento presents rambo

[@BrooklynJackBlue]

1:29: ...is that meant to be Brian...?

[@sl33tpaws62]

My cat's name is Rambo xD

[@arielgonzalez1636]

Batman also doesn't kill people

[@MSK2232]

this game seams stupid.. :P