With a mouse I was simply scrolling about with ease, left-clicking on enemy heads like I was clearing a Minesweeper board.

Neither a mouse nor a joypad are suitable proxies for a light gun. Playing a light gun game without a light gun is kind of like eating cereal with a fork you can get the Fruit Loops into your word hole easily enough but without the milk you’re missing out on a crucial part of the cereal-eating experience. You use a mouse or a joypad to whisk a cursor around the screen while Rambo advances about various environments of his own accord. After playing it I’m certain it shouldn’t be. Prior to its arrival I was not aware this was a type of game people made. It is not a regular first-person shooter this is Time Crisis without the colourful plastic pistols. Don’t be duped by the screenshots on the back of the box. Rambo: The Video Game is a light gun game without the light gun. That said, with its positively prehistoric rail-shooter underpinnings and its almost shocking unsuitability for its main control methods, you should not come to the Rambo: The Video Game at all.

Play This opening section admittedly takes place before the events of the First Blood, but you should not come to Rambo: The Video Game expecting much in the way of restraint or depth.

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