![]() In Plano, players receive a "mega vitamin bonus" which heals all the monsters and provides a large point bonus. The game starts in Peoria, Illinois and ends in Plano, Illinois. Rampage is set over the course of 128 days in cities across North America. Each monster can hold only one type of person: George can hold women, Lizzie can hold middle-aged men, and Ralph can hold businessmen. When a civilian is present waving their hands at a window signaling for help, a player's points rapidly increase when the person is grabbed. ![]() Some items can be both for example, a toaster is dangerous until the toast pops up, and a photographer must be eaten quickly before he dazzles the player's monster with his flash, causing it to fall. Helpful items include food or money, while dangerous ones include bombs, electrical appliances, and cigarettes. Smashing open windows generally reveals an item or person of interest, which may be helpful or harmful. If the player continues, the human mutates back into the monster or (if the human walked off the screen) flies in on a blimp (but has lost their score), with a full life bar. In this state, players can be eaten by another monster. If a monster takes too much damage, it reverts into naked human form and starts walking off the screen sideways, covering its body with its hands. Health is recovered by eating food items such as fruit, roast chicken, or soldiers. The player's monster receives damage from enemy bullets, sticks of dynamite, shells, punches from other monsters, and falls. Non-playable human characters within the levels can also be punched or grabbed and food items can be eaten. The player can climb any of the buildings, punching them to pieces and reducing them to rubble. The monsters must raze all buildings in a high-rise city to advance to the next level, eating people and destroying helicopters, tanks, taxis, police cars, boats, and trolleys along the way. Up to three simultaneous players control a trio of humans transformed into gigantic animalistic monsters due to various experiment-related accidents: George, who was transformed into a King Kong-like gorilla by an experimental vitamin, Lizzie, who was transformed into a Ymir-like reptile by a radioactive lake, and Ralph, who was transformed into a giant bipedal wolf by a food additive. Pictured from left to right are the player characters George, Lizzie, and Ralph. This opened the door to a more robust world filled with interesting characters and paw-some themes.An example of gameplay from Rampage. ![]() Connecting soup to Halloween proved too abstract, so the team shifted to the idea of a wizard school. The original concept for the game involved a magic cat making a soup that was so good, it raised the dead. It’s nice to have her back in action.įor fans of these games, it’s worth checking out Google’s posts about the Doodles, which include the dev team credits, early gameplay art, details about the real creatures that inspired this year’s antagonists, and some playful development notes: But while 2018’s spirit-collector Doodle game was ridiculously addictive, and 2019’s trick-or-treat advent calendar was mildly informative, they abandoned Momo. Google brought Momo back in 2017 for a short film about a lonely ghost seeking her friendship. Still, for those of us who replayed the 2016 game, the 2020 sequel is a lovely Halloween treat. ![]() But mostly, the only changes are the setting, and a cat-fish captain ally who sails you into dark waters. The new version offers a couple of minor twists - a jellyfish shield and a spray attack to supplement the lightning bolt you probably shouldn’t be using underwater. Only the setting has changed - after Momo defeated the magically enlarged boss-ghost in 2016, it fell into the ocean and is now possessing sea life, a volcano, and even seemingly the water. The new 2020 Doodle uses the exact same mechanic and gestures. Momo is silent (makes sense, since cats don’t talk), but she’s still a charismatic character who faces her spirit adversaries with a grim little frown of determination, and celebrates every completed level with a cocky little wand-twirl and grin. In that game, you fight ghosts by drawing the symbols above their heads, which translates to Momo waving her wand in the appropriate gesture and firing off an anti-ghost spell. This year’s Doodle is a direct sequel to 2016’s playable Magic Cat Academy Doodle, which sees a small black cat named Momo defending her school and her classmates against a series of ghosts taking over the classrooms and kitchen. Okay, that didn’t actually take very long. There are ghosts, and you fight them with magic. Strap in for the extensive backstory on Google’s latest playable Halloween Doodle, which has a history stretching all the way back to the long-ago before-time year of 2016.
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