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Almost as fun as a roll in the hay with Daisy Mae

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 8 / 8
Date: November 26, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Having just had the chance to reacquaint myself with Redneck Rampage for the first time in several years (yes, it is possible to play the game in Windows XP - but I'll get to that), I found it just as much fun as ever. This game never got its proper due, mainly due to the subject matter and such overshadowing contemporaries as Quake and Duke Nukem back in the mid-90s, but it is impressive on just about every level: gameplay, graphics, music, sound, and humor. The game was built using the Duke Nukem 3D engine, and this allows for plenty of entertaining interaction with the gaming environment; the level of detail is obviously lacking when judged by today's standards, but this remains a vivid, fun, quirky, and complex world to play in. All kinds of sound effects further add to the game's special charm, especially the phrases and exclamations your redneck hero mutters from time to time (all of which are not perfectly suitable for youngsters - thus, a parental lock feature allows you to take some of the redneck out of the redneck).

You play Leonard, and you're not happy. Gosh-durn aliens have landed right here in Hicksville, and they are cloning regular folks like Billy Ray left and right; that's bad enough, but now they've really gone too far - those alien scumbags have gone and stolen your fav-o-rite pig. It's time for them to pay; your pal Bubba is a little soft in the head (and the fact that you whack him upside the head with your crowbar to end each level isn't helping him any in the brains department), so it's up to you to show these aliens who's boss in these parts. You fight your way through fourteen intricate levels which take you all over town (junkyard, drive-inn, sewers, smelting plant, chicken processing plant, mortuary, etc.) facing a cast of bad guys including Skinny Old Coots, the aforementioned good-ole-boy Billy Ray clones, that pesky, sharp-shootin' sheriff Lester T. Hobbs, and annoying alien critters as those nasty, slippery Turd Minions, alien Hulks, and the curvy but ultra-deadly alien Vixens. You start out with your trusty crowbar, but you can find all sorts of nice implements with which to make your point: shotgun, huntin' rifle, dynamite, crossbow, ripsaw blade shooter, and - if'n you kill an alien hulk, a loaded alien space gun.

Don't go looking for any of those fancy medical kits to take care of your deteriorating health; you survive by munching cow pies, drinking beer and liquor, and - when it's true rampage time - homemade moonshine. Too much liquor makes you drunk as a skunk, and too many cow pies slow you down. The game is more challenging than you might expect, too. If you're as bad a gamer as I am, you will likely find yourself wandering back and forth all over a given level looking for that last darn key you need; the good news, though, is that all but a couple of the secrets you need to find are at least intuitive. Even when you're stuck, you can enjoy the music that drives this game forward; it includes foot-stompin' tracks from the likes of the Reverend Horton Heat and Mojo Nixon. This is just good old entertainment with no redeeming quality whatsoever.

I do want to let folks know that this game will run on Windows XP. You'll need to get hold of a couple of files, which you can find online (look up Bertram's Lair to find a tutorial for running the game on XP), and there's a certain way you need to start the game, but there's really very little to it - and the game runs like a charm.

Wheeeeee- Doggies!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 7 / 9
Date: May 08, 2000
Author: Amazon User

W'all, hiya there. Ah'm a-guessin' that yer aimin' to know what ah think 'bout this here computer game that those mighty decent folks down at Interplay whipped up, known as 'Redneck Rampage'. W'all, lemme sets y'all straight then.

If'n y'all are inta that there 'Quake' or the classic 'Doom', this plays purty much the same ways. First-person three-dee, wh'ar yer wastin' foes and alien hordes left 'n' right. Ya's got'cher choice of shootin' irons, frum the six-shooter ta the shotgun, an' even a crossbow that fa'rs them there TNT arra's. Ya's get shot up, just glug down a six-pack and/or a moon pie to re-fuel. If'n ya's find a dee-lishus goo-goo cluster, yer on the fast track ta prime redneck health while wastin' alien-bred clones of some of the least-tolerated citizens of these here parts. 'Course, if'n ya ever seen tha original folks these guys were made frum, ya'd have no problems blowin' them straight ta perdition too. So, don'cha fret none 'bout it, ya hear?

Anuther neat thang that this here... um... wachamacallit gots is soundtrack music ta slay by raht on thuh CD-ROM. Ya's got some fine tunes by the good ol' boys The Beat Farmers and that thar high-society band Mojo Nixon. Just'n ya be careful when's ya play thuh CD Rom... ya gotta be sure ta skip ta track two buhfore it plays. Yer ears will thank ya's for it, buhlieve yew me. Heck, some tahms I gets kinda sentimental, and ah'll throw in muh Hank Williams, Sr. Greatest Hits CD, and mow down thuh aliens an' clones ta that.

Ain't all that thar new-fangled technology sumthin'?

'Late...

A hilarious and challenging game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 6
Date: March 08, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Read the full-length Amazon review above, it's pretty spot-on. This really is an extremely funny game -- and if you don't want the increasingly challenging levels to get in the way of the laughs, it's well worth getting the cheats from fan sites you can link to at Interplay's homepage. Thoroughly recommended.

What is everybody talking about!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: May 15, 2001
Author: Amazon User

This game is very good. It is loaded with awesome weapons and leavels, the graphics are pretty good, and it is pretty funny. Some parts are acually somewhat realistic. For example, If you drink to much bear to raise your life you become drunk. It becomes hard the shoot and control the guy. It is a cool game

cheap low tech fun game

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: October 09, 2001
Author: Amazon User

this is an older game so it is cheap. It is fun, though silly. Good for about 40 hours then you've conquered it and it will get old. This is not diablo III man, it is Redneck Rampage. Have fun, drink a beer, and turn the brain off and enjoy.

It wouldnt work

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 4
Date: June 03, 2001
Author: Amazon User

the dang game just wouldnt work on my pc, and when i went to my freinds house who had an old pc that would run it, it didnt have any sound. Oh well.

Not for the "PC" PC gamer

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 4
Date: December 06, 2000
Author: Amazon User

You've all seen the Doom/Quake 3D engine in action. You all know the joy in sneaking around a corner and blasting the head off of a monster while your character mutters something darkly humerous. Redneck Rampage revels in that joy and sets you in a world where skinny old coots and fat Bubba reign supreme, at least until you use your alien arm gun (you tug on a tendon to get the blaster to fire) and fry them from across the road. Don't worry, they're aliens clones; you can annihilate and feel good about it. But make sure you have enough whiskey and moonpies to keep healthy. Your character shoots best when he's had a few. And don't forget that taking a leak or just shooting a good ol' "Yehah!" can do wonders for your health. So load up yer scatter gun, listen to the comments (and you might want to try the expansion cuss pack for some really guilty pleasure) and try not to get hit with that...stuff...the aliens in the sewers throw at you. You may feel like you shouldn't laugh, but when you play, the laughs will come often and steadily until the end.

Redneck Rampage was one of the greats, but don't buy this version

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: January 21, 2006
Author: Amazon User

This is just a demo version repackaged. It only has seven levels and no movies - although maybe the reason I couldn't see the movies was because of my hardware. Which brings me to my other point, be prepared to do a lot of nerd-hacking to try to get this to run on Windows XP, no matter which version you buy.

Did not like this one

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 4
Date: March 16, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Did not like this one, it is a cheap copy of Duke Nukem 3d. I think it is a bad copy of it. If you want real fun buy by Duke Nukem instead of this one. I think that the comedy is in the game is crude and stupid.

redneck rampage the earley years

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 4
Date: July 19, 2002
Author: Amazon User

This gane is top's It is lot's of fun.
I would like to buy it from you AND ALL
of the follow up game's of redneck rampage

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