Category: Adventure
Release Year: 1999
Trailer Runtime: 2 minutes, 25 seconds
Description: Whoopie World, the ultimate amusement park, is set to open tomorrow and, wouldn’t you know it, the distraught second-in-command, Jojo the Raccoon, has gone nuts, smashing rides and scattering admission tickets everywhere. Enter park maintenance robot Rocket, hastily assigned to repair the rides and collect the tickets. This 3-D platform adventure game is easily one of the most atypical Nintendo 64 titles to come along in quite a while–as evidenced by the premise–and could very well join the ranks of Banjo-Kazooie and Mario 64 for its beautiful cartoon style and massive game world. As Rocket–half unicycle, half armless, uh, contraption–players navigate through the seven game worlds using the robot’s powerful tractor beam in place of arms to grab and lift items, battle enemies, solve a grand variety of puzzles, and hang and swing from handles. The signature Fun-Physics game engine incorporates real-world character and environmental physics–Rocket realistically sways as he wheels along, and one can virtually “feel” the weight of objects lifted with the tractor beam. It’s a whole new–and wacky–world for gamers, and a very welcomed one at that. –Eric Twelker
