

Gameplay elements shared with GTA include the vast assortment of weaponry, the miscellaneous shops, the ability to hijack vehicles, and the ability to attract police attention with violence and destruction.Īs a homage to numerous 8-bit video games, Retro City Rampage incorporates design elements from many different genres, and features 16 graphical filters that simulate various retro computers and game consoles. During development, around 50 story missions and 30 challenge levels were planned. The game is inspired by Rockstar Games' Grand Theft Auto games, in that the player can complete a variety of missions within an enormous city that is open to explore. Corp, a tech corporation that desires to use the time machine to control the electronics market.

Robotnik), Doc Choc's rival and head of R&D at A.T. Von Buttnik (a parody of Sonic the Hedgehog's arch enemy Dr. The Player must work with Doc Choc to gather the rare parts needed to repair the time booth, whilst encountering numerous 1980s videogame and pop culture references and parodies, including law enforcement, the Jester, Bayside High School students, and Dr. Emmett Brown from the Back to the Future films) arrives in his own time-traveling vehicle and rescues the Player, mistakenly believing him to be a time-traveling hero. Upon arrival, the booth breaks down and a man named Doc Choc (a parody of Dr. The booth flings him forward an indeterminate amount of time to the year 20XX. Three years later, during a bank heist gone wrong, The Player runs into a time-traveling telephone booth, which he then steals from its owners. In the city of Theftropolis in 1985, "The Player", a thug for hire, is hired as a henchman of a major crime syndicate led by the Jester.
