When you reach the camp, you can actually opt to complete your mission as planned by just taking a picture of them…but then you need to go back and save them anyway for the game to continue properly. There’s no in-game map, and the repetitive environments don’t make navigation any easier.Įventually, you’ll run into Co, take a boat down the river, and run a little subquest by saving a boy from a giant spider. Sometimes, these pathways are one-way, which is maddening. There are also little blocks with “N” and “S” on them, transporting you to different parts of the map.
On a few occasions, you can walk right onto one screen, double back to the left, and end up in a completely different area. These dead ends aren’t even walls, really, they’re just blank space that you can’t walk through. However, the layouts don’t always make sense – sometimes if you keep walking in a direction, you’ll end up looping around. In a sense, these exploration elements are a bit like Castlevania II or The Goonies II. You get vague clues from the people you meet, which have some hilariously awful portraits, especially Rambo. Killing enemies will give you experience, and you can occasionally find little hearts to expand your health.Īlthough the plot is linear, you’ll still need to wander around the backwoods of Vietnam to find your next objective. Late in the game, you’ll finally get a machine gun, which sure takes long enough. You do have medicine that will replenish your health, but that’s also in short supply.
Your standard hunting knife is slow, weak, and incredibly unwieldy, and it’s quite difficult to escape an encounter without taking at least one hit. These come in limited quantities, but are almost mandatory if you want to survive. Occasionally they’ll drop weapons like throwing knives, arrows, and grenades. At first, the only enemies you’ll face are bees, snakes, more snakes, spiders, bats, flying skulls (!!), piranhas, and demonic flamingos. Once you walk around the base and meet all of the major characters, you’re sent out in the jungle with just a knife. When you first begin, Colonel Trautman gives you the option to take on the mission or stay in prison – if you choose to stay in prison, he’ll just say, over and over, that the game won’t begin until you accept. The game actually kinda sorta follows the plot to the movie. However, this one is a side-scrolling game that bears a suspicious resemblance to Zelda II: The Adventure of Link. And once again, they totally missed the point by scaling down the action and replacing them with roleplaying elements. This version was published in North America by LJN/Acclaim, not exactly known for their quality, and was originally created by Pack-In Video, the same guys responsible for the MSX Rambo RPGs. The Sega Master System version of Rambo is a fairly standard Commando-style run-and-gun, while the NES version is much, much weirder.
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