This game accurately portrays the Viet Cong's strategy of running to within 6 feet of the enemy's cover and stopping to stand there or standing up from their own cover to expose their entire upper bodies. No wonder the Americans never had a chance.
If there is one good thing about this game, it helped convince Teyon to actually make a pretty damn decent Terminator FPS in 2019! Apparently Angry Joe's review of Rambo was a major inspiration reference for the devs.
Really enjoyed the video. David Morrell, the creator of Rambo and author of the First Blood novel, actually wrote the novelizations of the second and third movies, and they were different (arguably better) than the movies. From the foreword in the novels, he seemed pretty happy with his version of the character and didn't have any regrets.
I like that they only had one specific texture of Rambo's shirt when he's shot so that means every single police officer in the town of Hope, Washington can shoot at a man's heart with perfect accuracy.
For anyone who hasn't played the game -- and really, why the hell would you? -- here's a fun fact: After you complete the first level, you unlock a perk that, when equipped, automatically passes every QTE that appears on-screen, even if you aren't pressing any buttons at all. That prison escape scene at the beginning of the second level? You'll be sitting there, watching the game go into auto-pilot even as it's blatly informing you that you're failing every QTE that comes up. The developers gave so little of a fuck about the game that they pretty much just went "look, we both know this game is shit so here's an option to just skip all this pointless crap."
I can only assume that there's so much saving because otherwise, not even a computer that's actively running Rambo: The Video Game could remember Rambo: The Video Game.
They're actually still making that Rambo vs half-men half-beasts, it's just not going to be a Rambo Film but a standalone one, still starring Stallone.
Back in middle school in the early 90s there was a typing tutor program that I discovered gave you a good grade if you had a like 90% or higher fail rate. I could type fine but this was faster and much more amusing. I did feel bad when the teacher gave me a Certificate for my excellent typing. I learned a valuable lesson that day....ALWAYS CHEAT.
To be...Slightly fair to this mess of a game, that was a notification of a perk he received after leveling up: It wasn't an achievement. Although, having QTEs and then instantly providing a way to nullify them? That's a baffling decision.
Matt. I know it's outside your usual field of work. But I think you'd love to make a video on the change of warhammer fantasy battles to age of sigmar, as that's a story with all the hallmarks of a what happened: -Lawsuits galore. -Conflicts with the suits and the creative tipes -Conflicts between the suits. -A beloved franchise put to the torch. -Quite a lot of greed and corner cutting abounding. -Piss poor communication and messaging. -Piss poor planning (as they changed a lot, and lots of time) -Piss poor messaging. -And most importantly: an extremely poor launch, worse reception and hilariously messy development. It's gotten a happy note in the end as the setting has improved greatly and warhammer fantasy is coming back , so that's an upside to it! EDIT: also, complete rewrites midway. We know they at least made 2 of those. Just look at the reaction people had. ua-cam.com/video/0nqRtpiR09c/v-deo.html
I saw some extras with First Blood and the actual reason they didn't want Rambo to die in the first movie was because PTSD was still a relatively new/undiscovered thing and they didn't want a bunch of veterans seeing someone they can identify with to think the best way out is to kill themselves. To me, that's some pretty solid reasoning to change that character's ending from the book.
Hilarity already begins at 1:40 with a full-honors military funeral at Arlington and the rifle team didn't bring ceremonial military rifles, but a bunch of old-ass Winchester Model 88 hunting rifles. Might as well have brought some Daisy BB guns, it would be just as silly looking.
So, in the novel Rambo doesn't kill himself. From what I remember he is shot multiple times and at the end Troutman puts him out of his misery. Its been a while since I read it but he definitely doesn't kill himself in the novel.
No shit, honest to god. My grandpa and all his siblings were in Vietnam. My grandpa was a medic in the green beret and got two Purple Hearts from grenades. One piece of shrapnel hit him pretty bad, but the second time they didn’t think he would walk again. His brother was in artillery, and has lung issues from agent orange and hearing damage from the mortar blasts. The rest are dead. I showed him this video. He said being in Vietnam was less traumatic than this game.
Please more Rambo, this has been quite entertaining thus far, maybe try to fix that "Save Icon" glitch so you can play this trainwreck without having technical oddities to distract you from doing so.
So machine guns as in 240B M60s actually don't take too long to load less then 6 seconds if your gun team is good even less. The annoying part is making sure the rounds are seated properly if not malfunctions all day
You know, considering how few rail shooters get made nowadays, I ended up kinda liking this game. I have a soft spot for rail shooters. At least it had some interesting ideas. If only it wasn't so buggy. And had better graphics. And unlike what people keep saying, there ARE voice actors in this game and new dialogue. But only for the gameplay sequences. Almost all the cutscenes use audio from the movies.
You know what? This might be an unpopular opinion, but I think they really put quite some effort and passion into this. This game feels like a "lots of effort and passion, but not enough time / budget / skill". Technically this game could've been a nice diversion from the classic fps shooters, it just wasn't ready for release and needed a LOT more polishing, both in art and gameplay.
Speaking of light-gun/on-rails shooter games, did you ever play Blue Estate? It's on Steam and it's fantastic! It's completely absurd and so much fun to play.
Why are the save icons allowed to do that? Shouldn't they all be in the same spot? They're like, pushing the previous ones downward or something? Also, one of the fur-men was Pantherk. It had to be.
I guess John and Delmar just didn't give a fuck about their other teammate that was executed just before they broke out, or all those others that were tortured to death offscreen. They don't seem the least bit upset, as they're cracking wise within seconds after breaking out.
Wait... on the thumbnail, is that an M60... with an RPG warhead on the end of the barrel? I know rifle grenades are a thing (just don't know when they fell out of use), but sweet criminey. 🤦♂️
I think it's Rambo's model that makes this charming in a weird way: He looks so goofy and out of place, it's like Kirby going through Call of Duty.
Take 1 part Stallone with 3 parts Wiseau and BOOM!! Instant Rambo model!
@@christopheranzovinio5893 true, hehe.
The Nine save icons on screen gave Rambo his Godhood.
Oh hey, West. When are you gonna get around to updating your "Compare the Voices" video for the Joker?
Come on comrades! His a man, not a God!
Rambo is like a Japanese demon fox growing tails. Every level he gets another save icon and once he has 9 he's all powerful.
Haha, that save glitch is hilarious!
I'd like to think that's Rambo's mind breaking apart and saving all the PTSD.
“COME ON COMRADES HE’S A MAN, NOT A GOD!”
HE'S A MAN NOT A GOD!
Came here for this
H'ES A MAN NOT A GOD COME ON , HES A MAN NOT A GOD
This is the comment i was looking for
Rambo fighting Fur-men? Then I think “Rambo: Furst Blood” is an appropriate title if that had happened
I think that this is a appropriate title for this game too
If you may please see yourself out, the door is that way.
@@Mr.Spongecake Same, except I was going to call it "Furs' Blood".
This game accurately portrays the Viet Cong's strategy of running to within 6 feet of the enemy's cover and stopping to stand there or standing up from their own cover to expose their entire upper bodies. No wonder the Americans never had a chance.
Bad recoil.
If there is one good thing about this game, it helped convince Teyon to actually make a pretty damn decent Terminator FPS in 2019! Apparently Angry Joe's review of Rambo was a major inspiration reference for the devs.
It's amazing how listening to constructive criticism helps you get better.
@@similaritiesendhere indeed.
Rambo is basically "Everyone on planet earth all decide to beat down this one Vet from Vietnam to absurd lengths" the series
To this day, no one knows why this game was even made.
@@wstine79 Come on comrades he's a man not a god! XD
Charlie knows.
Money.
Angryjoes review on this game is legendary
Even I've never seen the stacked up save icons. New jank!
Some say that somewhere, there's a system running this Rambo on-rail shooter that's still saving to this day
The irony is that Rambo would soon be in Mortal Kombat 11 and actually has Stallone reprise his role.
Really enjoyed the video. David Morrell, the creator of Rambo and author of the First Blood novel, actually wrote the novelizations of the second and third movies, and they were different (arguably better) than the movies. From the foreword in the novels, he seemed pretty happy with his version of the character and didn't have any regrets.
ALL THE SAVE ICONS!!!
I like that they only had one specific texture of Rambo's shirt when he's shot so that means every single police officer in the town of Hope, Washington can shoot at a man's heart with perfect accuracy.
From a hip fire position at that. Seriously they just casually quick draw and pop’em.
In the end it was the save icons that broke John Rambo.
6:50 Watch the basket ?
Can't handle the polygons
Worst thing about this game is that it was originally a third person stealth game. What could have been.
Really, that's a shame, no wonder people were disappointed when this got released....
Oh boy, it would've been funny just because of his character model
For anyone who hasn't played the game -- and really, why the hell would you? -- here's a fun fact:
After you complete the first level, you unlock a perk that, when equipped, automatically passes every QTE that appears on-screen, even if you aren't pressing any buttons at all. That prison escape scene at the beginning of the second level? You'll be sitting there, watching the game go into auto-pilot even as it's blatly informing you that you're failing every QTE that comes up.
The developers gave so little of a fuck about the game that they pretty much just went "look, we both know this game is shit so here's an option to just skip all this pointless crap."
i'm stoned loving relaxing with this vid and then I realize 25 mins in there have been 72 save icons covering a third of the screen
I typed this before I hear matt literally say the number 72
I sure do love the adventures of sweaty hero man!
Rambo: “Murdock, i’m coming to get you”
Murdock: “shits himself”
I actually want to see you finish this, you knew a lot of stuff about rambo that I didn't know and it was fun to hear
I can only assume that there's so much saving because otherwise, not even a computer that's actively running Rambo: The Video Game could remember Rambo: The Video Game.
Guys, I don't have enough time the secret to immortali- Saving...
Saving...
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Saving...
They're actually still making that Rambo vs half-men half-beasts, it's just not going to be a Rambo Film but a standalone one, still starring Stallone.
as a dev myself, I laughed uncontrollably when Matt got the NO QTE FAILS achievement and failed EVERY SINGLE ONE
Back in middle school in the early 90s there was a typing tutor program that I discovered gave you a good grade if you had a like 90% or higher fail rate. I could type fine but this was faster and much more amusing. I did feel bad when the teacher gave me a Certificate for my excellent typing. I learned a valuable lesson that day....ALWAYS CHEAT.
To be...Slightly fair to this mess of a game, that was a notification of a perk he received after leveling up: It wasn't an achievement.
Although, having QTEs and then instantly providing a way to nullify them? That's a baffling decision.
You should've kept going, now i'll forever be tormented by not knowing if the save icons would loop and come down from the top of the screen
Saving...
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For the record, that Rambo arcade game is pretty good. I played it at Dave&Busters once. Didn’t get far but I’d recommend.
27:25 I must go, the mole people need me.
I used the search bar around 5 minutes in just to see if the Saving icon ever disappeared. It did not but my sides sure did.
The only reason people remember this game is because of AngryJoe
I was kinda hoping the Saving... icons would move to the other side of the screen and make it impossible to see.
Saving...
"He's a man not a god!"
COME ON COMRADE!!!
HE'S A MAN NOT A GOD!!!
Matt. I know it's outside your usual field of work. But I think you'd love to make a video on the change of warhammer fantasy battles to age of sigmar, as that's a story with all the hallmarks of a what happened:
-Lawsuits galore.
-Conflicts with the suits and the creative tipes
-Conflicts between the suits.
-A beloved franchise put to the torch.
-Quite a lot of greed and corner cutting abounding.
-Piss poor communication and messaging.
-Piss poor planning (as they changed a lot, and lots of time)
-Piss poor messaging.
-And most importantly: an extremely poor launch, worse reception and hilariously messy development.
It's gotten a happy note in the end as the setting has improved greatly and warhammer fantasy is coming back , so that's an upside to it!
EDIT: also, complete rewrites midway. We know they at least made 2 of those. Just look at the reaction people had.
ua-cam.com/video/0nqRtpiR09c/v-deo.html
oh FUCK
That's some glorious clusterfuck. I await for the revival of the army burning.
@@Srfriqui Oh yeah. Thanks for reminding me lolf.
@@Srfriqui What?!?
@@pippertrigefamers.5599 Oh yeah. Some guy did burn his entire army (like 1k-2k dollars of it). Pretty fun, I linked the video.
I saw some extras with First Blood and the actual reason they didn't want Rambo to die in the first movie was because PTSD was still a relatively new/undiscovered thing and they didn't want a bunch of veterans seeing someone they can identify with to think the best way out is to kill themselves.
To me, that's some pretty solid reasoning to change that character's ending from the book.
I've always loved the cover art for the movie.
The m60 with an RPG duct taped to it. Haha
Hilarity already begins at 1:40 with a full-honors military funeral at Arlington and the rifle team didn't bring ceremonial military rifles, but a bunch of old-ass Winchester Model 88 hunting rifles. Might as well have brought some Daisy BB guns, it would be just as silly looking.
Rambo X Cheetahmen the crossover we deserve.
Someone needs to make an NES game of Rambo vs The Cheetah Men
So, in the novel Rambo doesn't kill himself. From what I remember he is shot multiple times and at the end Troutman puts him out of his misery. Its been a while since I read it but he definitely doesn't kill himself in the novel.
Does this game have a save feature?
7:00 Diamond pot, octagon pot, diamond pot, octagon pot...
"IT'S NOT A MARIO GAME DUDE, IT'S VIETNAM!"
I'm done.
No shit, honest to god.
My grandpa and all his siblings were in Vietnam. My grandpa was a medic in the green beret and got two Purple Hearts from grenades. One piece of shrapnel hit him pretty bad, but the second time they didn’t think he would walk again.
His brother was in artillery, and has lung issues from agent orange and hearing damage from the mortar blasts. The rest are dead. I showed him this video.
He said being in Vietnam was less traumatic than this game.
Rambo: First Saving Icon
Rambo: Second Saving Icon
Please more Rambo, this has been quite entertaining thus far, maybe try to fix that "Save Icon" glitch so you can play this trainwreck without having technical oddities to distract you from doing so.
When I was growing up we had a tiny dog ironically named Rambo.
Same
I'm sorry but I'm just too busy laughing how god awful this truly was! XD
Saving....
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6:55 Matt doesn't realize that he changing between somewhat identical dimensions
"HEZ A MAHN NOT A GOD!"
Rumor has it that you get more saving icons as you progress through the chapters. However, no one has been able to complete the game...
1:02 Hey Matt, I lol'd because it's a stock picture of a Microsoft Intelli mouse, like right off the product page.
So machine guns as in 240B M60s actually don't take too long to load less then 6 seconds if your gun team is good even less. The annoying part is making sure the rounds are seated properly if not malfunctions all day
You know, considering how few rail shooters get made nowadays, I ended up kinda liking this game. I have a soft spot for rail shooters. At least it had some interesting ideas.
If only it wasn't so buggy. And had better graphics.
And unlike what people keep saying, there ARE voice actors in this game and new dialogue. But only for the gameplay sequences. Almost all the cutscenes use audio from the movies.
It's 2023 and I'm watching this video. And I realize that I'd made the right choice in ignoring the game's existence when it came out.
He's a man, not a god. He's a man, not a god. He's a man, not a god. He's a man, not a god.
"Godzilla is approaching the generator"
...ah fuck wrong quote
"FOOOOOOOUUUUUR HOOOOOOOUUUUUUUURRRRRSSSS"
I very much enjoyed picking this game up for you in an English games shop in deepest darkest Reading.
Tom Campbell brought me here. Love the content. Take my sub!
The Saving bug is absolutely brutal
A Metal Gear Solid type game but with Rambo. Now that would be pretty good
Oh yeah, this game...
I remember seeing Inside Gaming playing this a good 6 or 7 years ago, such good memories.
So who does player 2 play as in Co-Op? Do you each control one of Rambo's arms as he dualwields every weapon?
FULL LP please
I have this game and it's pretty fun but I am partial to on-rails shooters.
Saving Icons The Game
This game with the PS3 move machine gun is actually really fun.
Remember Rambo? Hes back! In video game form!
You know what? This might be an unpopular opinion, but I think they really put quite some effort and passion into this. This game feels like a "lots of effort and passion, but not enough time / budget / skill". Technically this game could've been a nice diversion from the classic fps shooters, it just wasn't ready for release and needed a LOT more polishing, both in art and gameplay.
Saving...
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I'm watching this for halloween. It's scary enough if you ask me.
Brownie points for remembering David Caruso was in First Blood.
Man I can't wait for mat to get to the part with the fire ants
Speaking of light-gun/on-rails shooter games, did you ever play Blue Estate? It's on Steam and it's fantastic! It's completely absurd and so much fun to play.
SAVING
"He's a man, not a god." I adore Angry Joe to bits.
Saddly we never got a buddy action movie with John Matrix and John Rambo.
This game just *existing* would have at least made more sense, if it had just been released, only a few years later.
In this game, QTE means death montages
We need a Wha happun episode about this....... 😃
Rambo Vs the Nine Icons of Saving
5:12 When talked of the punisher game on ps2 that would perform greatly but they decided to most crapiest rail shooting all time
The greatest game ever made
Why are the save icons allowed to do that? Shouldn't they all be in the same spot? They're like, pushing the previous ones downward or something? Also, one of the fur-men was Pantherk. It had to be.
Does this game ever stop saving????
I guess John and Delmar just didn't give a fuck about their other teammate that was executed just before they broke out, or all those others that were tortured to death offscreen. They don't seem the least bit upset, as they're cracking wise within seconds after breaking out.
I legit thought the save icons were a joke until halfway through the video
The QTE fails in this game are so fucking stupid lol.
Wait... on the thumbnail, is that an M60... with an RPG warhead on the end of the barrel?
I know rifle grenades are a thing (just don't know when they fell out of use), but sweet criminey. 🤦♂️
The next game should be Balbo the video game where you punch QTE sequences
Hey Matt, did you remember to save?
Supposedly Rambo is named after a apple.
probably not enough of a game for a video, but Rambo III on sega genesis is a pretty decent game; one of the better movie tie ins for sure.