Rocket Ranger
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| Developer(s) | Cinemaware |
| Publisher(s) | Cinemaware, Kemco[1] |
| Platform(s) | Amiga DOS Commodore 64 Apple IIGS Atari ST NES |
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| Genre(s) | Action |
| Mode(s) | Single-player |
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| Golden Joystick Awards | Best 16-bit Graphics of the Year |
Rocket Ranger is a 1988 action adventure computer game developed and published by Cinemaware. The game's setting is based in the World War II era, allowing the player to control a US Army scientist and setting out to stop Nazi Germany from winning the war. The Rocket Ranger moniker stems from the Rocket Pack the player uses over the course of the game.
Like many Cinemaware games, Rocket Ranger draws its inspiration from Hollywood, and likely The Rocketeer comics. This title pays homage to the many 1950s sci-fi serials, using the look and feel of the serials, including action-packed cut-scenes and an art treatment loyal to the futuristic visions of that era. It also features the cliché elements of that era, including a dashing, courageous hero and a beautiful, voluptuous damsel in distress in need of rescue.
A Kickstarter campaign for a remake was launched on November 13, 2014 and was fully funded on December 17, 2014. It was officially cancelled in November 2015 with refunds being offered that same month.
The strategy game requires the player to deploy up to five agents to different nations with one of two objectives; infiltrate or organize a local resistance. The former allows the player to discover critical items to complete the game. The latter allows the player to delay the invasion of the USA.
Agents deployed in the strategy game will often give information on targets of interest or missions. These events require the player to fly there using the rocket pack via the take-off mini-game. This mini-game requires the player to time their button pushes to their character's steps in order to build enough speed for takeoff.
These are missions which require the player to engage in air combat against enemy fighters, a Zeppelin, and ground anti-aircraft guns, depending on the mission. The player flies in third-person while shooting their gun at targets ahead.
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