Rango (video game)

Rango: The Video Game is a video game by Paramount Digital Entertainment, released on March 1, 2011. It is based on the film of the same name. The game is available for PlayStation 3, Wii and Xbox 360 as well as Nintendo DS. It was developed by Behaviour Interactive.

All versions were published by both Electronic Arts and Paramount Digital Entertainment.^[1]

Plot

Jenkins Cousins Homestead

Beans's father sees a meteorite crash. The old soldier goes up the sandy hill, examines, and in a flash of green light offscreen, he is taken.

15 years later, Rango, the 17-year-old Western Chameleon from the film, enters the scene, passed out. He wakes up and makes his way into the Gas Can Saloon. Just then Slim walks in with parts of the rock, and Rango opens it, vaporizing him. Explaining the plotline of how he first saw the rocks, he says that Bad Bill was involved. He teamed up with the Jenkins cousins in an unnatural alliance. Rango tracks down Bill at the barber shop, their hideout.

Rango blows up the barber shop, and Bill escapes, but not before Rango gets one of the rocks.

Water Train

As Rango continues the story, Bill tries to hijack the water train. Rango catches up with him, and he attempts to follow him. Some parts of the train were even sabotaged by the henchmen, the back train up to the coal cart burned down after dynamite was burned. Rango finds Bill, and gets the next rock, but the train explodes, and Rango escapes on Excelsior.

Forbidden Mine

Rango catches up with Bill, and Beans accompanies him into the Forbidden Mine, at the foot of the majestic cliffs of Dry Creek. After making it into Area 102, and finding Bill there, he escapes into Andromeda 5, and hides near a machine gun. After trying to shoot Rango, failing in the process, Rango blows up the hideout, retrieving the 3rd rock.

Giant's Land

Rango then tells them that the rocks are Meterorite fragments. As Buford cooks up Zucchini muffins, Rango tells the story again. Hiding out in a RV, where a man is taking veangence on aliens, Rango defeats the bad guys there, and gets the fourth rock, running off.

Rodent Clan

Rango gets knocked out at Dirt, and Beans is kidnapped. Thrown in jail, Rango escapes, blows up Bill's stagecoach which kept Beans, freeing her, and collecting the 5th rock.

Return of Rattlesnake Jake

Beans enters and Rango tells them that outside the cantina, Rattlesnake Jake from the first movie, returned for revenge. A showdown begins, and Rango kills Jake, as the 6th rock comes out of his mouth.

Zombie Attack

Rango then enters Mr. Black's laboratory, and destroys it along with his genetic, morally incorrect experiments. He goes out to stop the Zombies he made, but is too late. They set fire to Dirt and escape, but rango kills them all, pursuing Bill. Distracted, he gets run over by a car and killed, while Rango gets another rock.

Nowhere and Back

Rango then falls into a 3d graphic world, and escapes on Mr. Timms, getting another rock. He falls off and gets knocked out. Hallucinating, he is picked up by Excelsior.

Alien invasion

Beans had a key around her neck, revealing it to be a safe deposit box key. It's also revealed that Beans' father scattered the rocks. Taking the last one, they forge into alien technology zapping the citizens. Mr. Black tells them to get on the clock tower, really a rocket. Going to a shuttle near Mars, Rango, Mr. Black and Beans destroy the aliens, Beans reunites with her father, and Rango is a hero once again.

Reception

Rango: The Video Game received largely mixed and average reviews. According to Metacritic, the Xbox 360 version has an average critic score of 68 based on 25 reviews.^[2]

While acknowledging its gameplay and other elements as commendable, the majority of critics noted the game's short play time and replay value as a major pitfall.

External links

• Official website (film)

References