Ramboat

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Ramboat: First Flood

Ramboat: First Flood

I am very sorry for the pun, I just can't help it. Though, the game follows your character as he or she shoots his way through the river Rio in Brazil, there are no floods actually. Just pure carnival, and where there are carnivals, there are loads of fun.

We all have played those frantic, crazy, bullet hell-esque runners in our smartphones, and tablets, but I think Ramboat is a different kind of beast since it has an actual level design. And dare I say, much better than Jetpack Joyride.

The game is free, and then there are in-app purchases for you to buy some credits to purchase heroes, upgrade your guns efficiency and your boat. You can always not purchase anything in the store, and just collect your way through it. Also, purchasing any amount of virtual currency will automatically relieve you of the ads, which is not that intrusive to begin with. Sure is a nice gesture and such a good thing that it is widely practiced nowadays.

Gameplay is classic runner / shooter, but a little bit of alterations. Given that you are riding a boat, or whatever sea vessel just bought (all puns intended), you can swipe up or down to jump on the water or to dive down the water, respectively. The aiming and shooting is set automatically and all you have to do is evade the enemy bullets and missiles (or everything that they throw on you) and collect the coins all over the place. The levels are not randomly generated, and that makes it a fairly unique proposition in this genre. If you die in the level, you are going back to the start and try again. You can use the amount of coins you have collected to upgrade your weaponry, buy new boats, or new characters. There is also a meta-game of poker that you can have access every now and then. Winning a hand will grant you additional coins or bonuses.

Ramboat is one of my favorite mobile games recently, and it is amazing how the developers cram so many features without feeling overwhelmed. The ever-growing achievement system is noteworthy here. You are given a set of four goals to achieve, and completing this will earn you rewards. With this, there is another game you have to play, not just surviving as many levels as possible but also shooting for those objectives. These objectives are full of variety too, you may collect a certain amount of coins, or chain more combos or just plainly surviving towards the next level. There are options to skip certain goals if you find them difficult to pull off, but where is the fun in that?

The graphics in this game is wildly inconsistent. When you look at the effects, it looks great. If you look the animation, it is fluid. You look at the environment, it is solid. When you look at your character though, it severely lacks polish, sore-thumb sticking out, giving me sore eyes for how hideous he looks, terrible character art. This is on technical level, not on the design level, he just comes off rushed or something, jaggies and awkward colors. The default character looks like it came from a Flash game of the early 2000s. Music and sound effects are fine, nothing to complain.

Again, this is one of those games that will stay on your home screen, and while it not be played everyday, it will be one of your go to game if you want a minute to burn, either in commute or just waiting in queue. It is worth noting that Ramboat gets really difficult to play in later levels without ample upgrades on your arsenal. Most of the upgrades are the efficiency of the weapons themselves, as you have direct access to the weapons at the very start. Also, the weapons different for each and every character. Though it may not look like one, it is an upgrade path, there is no hidden content behind a paywall. It is not actually the weapon that makes the difference but its efficiency. You just have to grind for it, and of course, the sessions are finite with limited tries per day. You can always buy some of the packages though, as it cuts through some of the work, as the later stages are just worth a few dollars from your wallet.

4.5 / 5.0
 
Review by Jasper Nikki | Feb 16th 2015

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Review by GuestMar 5th 2024

Great game. Keeps you interested and aggravated lol

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Review by GuestNov 9th 2021

I hate this game I have played ALL GAMES OF angry birds AND IT WAS DIFFICULT AT TIMES.. This is a money hungry game. To get all the help I need to play through levels I have to be rich. I'm UNABLE TO GET PASSED 4TH LEVEL OVER 3 WEEKS OF PLAYING IT.

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