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If you start a mission, enter a store, pick up a cop coin or spray paint your car, you can lose the cops immediately. Steering vehicles is always a bit of a mess if you can’t orient yourself due to the perspective, but running over four blocks’ worth of pedestrians doesn’t result in a national manhunt on par with recent GTA games. Top-down games always have a bit of a learning curve when it comes to driving, but Retro City Rampage: DX assuages this by making the police more lenient than before.

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The limitations are obvious, but it’s still a shame that the Circle Pad Pro wasn’t utilized or at least offered as an optional tweak.

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Guns lock-on similar to before, but the free shooting aspect is handled by pressing L and then using the control stick to aim.

The combat in previous versions, while not perfect, at least offered something that’s sorely missing from the 3DS version: twin-stick shooting. There are more than a few issues that keep the game from being perfect. Locking on to enemies is problematic, though, and free shooting doesn’t work as well as it should. Missions are easy to find and are usually bookended by hysterical cut scenes, and combat is fluid and responsive. Navigating Theftropolis is easy thanks to the ability to hijack any car available and power-ups that make you run faster than traffic. The top-down perspective is reminiscent of the original GTA series, but the action is faster-paced and much more fluid than the original. While some of the moments of parody come off as excessively heavy-handed (game producers asking for first-born children, openly acknowledging cliches), it’s done with enough heart that you can look past the shortcomings.

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Retro City Rampage: DX is bursting with homages to classic games, movies and TV shows, and a majority of them are enough to make you laugh out loud. Roaming the city with unlockable characters is a blast, and being able to access the challenges found throughout the game from the main menu is a convenient feature. One mission might find you fighting go-go dancers with a Ghostbusters team parody while another finds you arming bombs in a dam, a la Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Along with the story, two other modes are offered to keep you coming back. The set up is goofy and the story doesn’t quite hold up throughout the entire game, but it’s too campy to fault it for not being enjoyable. If you haven’t played through any of the other versions before, the rundown is simple: created as an 8-bit version of Grand Theft Auto, Provinciano’s game lets players wreak havoc in Theftropolis as they try to fix the time machine that brought them to the future.

It also helps that it only costs $9.99, coming in cheaper than other versions while still offering the best possible experience. While Retro City Rampage: DXretains the updates that have been released thus far, it also adds an amazing amount of depth to the already enticing game with a completely reworked version that serves as the definitive iteration for fans to enjoy. Brian Provinciano, the sole developer of the game, has been supporting his project since release, giving fans tons of updates and freshly implemented ideas to toy with. It’s definitely not a bad thing, though, because any excuse to play through this hilariously retro title is one I’m willing to take. Reviewing Retro City Rampage in 2014 seems a bit odd since the original release date was almost two years ago.

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