Lego Rock Raiders (PlayStation)
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.jpg) “‘Kids Tested, Kids Approved!’ Yeah, well, kids also like sh*tting their pants so that doesn’t mean anything.”
-Caddicarus
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Lego Rock Raiders is a game developed by Data Design Interactive and published by Lego Media in 1999 for the PC and PlayStation, both of which are different games. The PC version is a real-time strategy game and the PlayStation version is an action game. The PC version has gained a cult following (including a modding community), but the PS1 version received negative reviews and faded into near-obscurity.
For reasons that have never really been cleared, the PAL and NTSC are very different from one another and will be covered separately.
Why It Sucks
General
- Drops the real-time strategy gameplay from the PC version and instead makes it a crappy and generic action game where you control a single Rock Raider.
- Levels can be annoying scavenger hunts.
- Extremely boring for anybody to play (even though the PAL version says it was "Kids tested, Kids approved")
- Slow analog controls. The cars control the worst, though.
- Generic music and poor sound effects.
- False advertising: The back cover uses images from the PC version.
- For a game from 1999, it somehow doesn't support the memory card. Instead, it has a password system, which is completely outdated even for a PlayStation game at the time.
- Generic character design.
NTSC
- Most missions are repetitive with the same objectives compared to the much more varied ones found in the PAL version.
- The outer core bonus levels are missing.
- Only 6 multiplayer maps compared to the 18 ones present in the PAL version. (Even if 6 of them are just re-purposed single-player levels)
- A few of the enemies aren't present.
PAL
- Long load times compared to the NTSC game.
- The sliding puzzles on the loading screen aren't present, instead, it just repeats the mission objectives that you just read.
- Suffers in general from a lot more glitches.
- Weapons and ammo do not respawn in this version. Meaning that if you waste something like the dynamite too early, you will not be able to complete the level.
- A few missing sound effects.
Redeeming Qualities
- Still contains the nicely animated cutscenes from the PC version.
- It's still unique that the game is different from another version in terms of gameplay.
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