Rampage (franchise)

''Rampage'' is a series of video games released by Midway (1986–2009) and Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment (2009–present) for arcades and consoles. Due to experiment-related accidents, the player controls a human transformed into a giant monster. The player using their chosen monster to destroy cities around the world while attacking or avoiding police and military forces.

A film adaptation was released in 2018.

Premise

Humans have been undergoing strange mutations into giant animalistic monsters due to experiments conducted by the nefarious Scumlabs. These monsters proceed to travel across Earth and beyond, ravaging everything in sight. Heavy inspiration is drawn from various monster movies such as ''King Kong'' and 1957's ''20 Million Miles to Earth''. The series' three most famous characters are George, a scientist transfigured into a gorilla-like monster; Lizzie, a woman transfigured into a reptilian monster; and Ralph, a man transfigured into a monster akin to werewolves.

Games

* '' Rampage'' (1986) - The experiments of Scumlabs causes George, Lizzie, and Ralph to mutate into giant monsters who go on a rampage in the city while avoiding the military.
* '' Rampage World Tour'' (1997) - An explosion at Scumlabs releases George, Lizzie, and Ralph who begin to destroy all of Scumlabs' locations throughout the world.
* '' Rampage 2: Universal Tour'' (1999) - Another accident releases three new monsters like a rhinoceros-like monster named Boris, a mouse monster named Curtis, and a lobster monster named Ruby who go on a rampage and free George, Lizzie, and Ralph from their confinement as an alien invasion occurs.
* '' Rampage Through Time'' (2000) - As Scumlabs uses a time machine to clean up the mess in the past, George, Lizzie, Ralph, Boris, Curtis, and Ruby return to Earth with a common warthog monster named Harley where they use the time machine to cause havoc on Earth in the past, present, and future.
* '' Rampage Puzzle Attack'' (2001)
* '' Rampage: Total Destruction'' (2006) - Scumlabs has developed a new soda which turns 30 (40 in the Wii version) people into monsters. While most of them have been placed in cryo-tubes, some have escaped and go on a rampage around the world while freeing those in the cryo-tubes.
* '' Rampage'' (2018) - Adapted from the film, serves as a reboot to the series.

Film adaptation

A live-action film adaptation was released on April 13, 2018, directed by Brad Peyton and starring Dwayne Johnson. The film features the classic trio of George, Lizzie and Ralph, this time as mutated animals rather than transfigured humans.

To tie into the film three separate video games were created. One is an arcade game created exclusively for ''Dave & Buster's'' who co-created the game alongside Adrenaline Amusements for their restaurant chain, and a augmented reality app called ''RAMPAGE: AR Unleashed'', while the second is a free-to-play browser game called ''Rampage City Smash''. The third is a virtual reality game called ''Project Rampage VR''.

References

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