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Games that COULD have been awesome: Reboot(ps1)
mackisawesome | 3:12 PM on 10.23.2007 12 comments


I’m really not sure how many people actually tried this game. But for a ps1 game is was mediocre. Then again, everyone and their mother had their own official ps1 game.

Introduction
In Reboot, the main gameplay was to play as bob and fly around on a zipboard while finishing basic timed tasks, such as go get that key to get to the next level, or go mend that tare (with glitch FTW). The weapons system would include a blaster gun (which I have no idea where bob got that, because for the first 2 seasons I never saw a single gun in the entire game. Also, glitch would also carry a few different powerups that could be used if you had enough ammo for it. When you weren’t doing arbitrary tasks on a time limit, you would be watching cinematics that actually look like they were made just for the game (which is pretty cool).


<where’d he get that thing!?!>

So what? This sounds like an average ps1 game, whats wrong?’

The problems - how to maybe fix it

1. Walking: inexistent
The main problem was not the gameplay objective or the weapons (they were actually kind of cool). The main problem was that you cant get off your zip board! EVER! The game didn’t make walking in any way. Anyways if they added the ability to switch between zip board and walking so you could do other things, like walk into dots diner, maybe interact with reboot world.



2. The infamous Reboot game cubes: disappointing
Alright so I believe there is 1 game cube throughout the entire game, and It couldn’t be anymore disappointing. Bob does not get a different costume, and the actual world looks no different then outside of the actual cube! The only thing that makes you know that this IS a purple thing dropping from the sky in the cinematic and the fact that a FEW enemies have little costumes on

3. Too far from the actual show
If they just made the plot of the game megabyte making some superweapon and the reboot gang trying to stop him, it would work a lot better. I thinks that’s what they tried to go for, but instead, you go through everywhere from lost angles to the dump/junkyard? You eventually end up fighting megabyte, but you don’t really know why?


4.Not enough this guy!
Lets face it, if this guy was 40 feet tall, and you got to fight him, the game would almost be worth it.


5. Made By EA when they still used that writing, u know what I’m talking about

The last problem I really have to put out there is that this game wasn’t even bad enough to be funny! It actually looked like EA tried to make this game good, and just failed horribly (hmm sounds like a trend with EA).



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clockfacer's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/23/2007 15:15
clockfacer
woot woot 1st(0th) post!! also, my first post ever!! i love dtoid!
tehdopefish's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/23/2007 15:19
tehdopefish
clockfacer, quit sucking. kthx.

I haven't had a chance to try this one out, though I think i may have to break out some not-emulators and give it a try, if only for nostalgia's sake.
Vegas's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/23/2007 15:24
Vegas


Reboot was a great show, I just might have to play this... but being an EA title I doubt it would be worth the nanoseconds.
SuitcoatAvenger's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/23/2007 15:25
SuitcoatAvenger
I remember playing this back in the day. It was sort of cool in that old-school PS1 sort of way because the environments were somewhat open for their time. I disagree with the comment about being able to get off of the board, though; it's one of the features that made the game interesting. Now, if they had a better control scheme for it... that probably would have been for the better. That being said, if memory serves the biggest issues was the repetative nature of the game. Zip around, mend some tears (why do I remember that?), zip off to shoot at some people. Had the game been a bit more varied, it might have been better received, and better remembered.
king3vbo's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/23/2007 15:34
king3vbo
AWESOME! I love Reboot, I had no idea there was an old shitty game made about it
whiteboy0869's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/23/2007 15:52
whiteboy0869
Yea, I don't remember a fucking gun either, where he get that shit at?
007's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/23/2007 15:55
007
all I remember was the tv show, which was awesome for its time. too bad they stop airing it when i hit 8.
JRisJunior's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/23/2007 17:25
JRisJunior
show = amazing.

game = teh suck.
Wedge's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/23/2007 19:59
Wedge
I always see copies of this, but I already knew it would suck, so I've never picked it up. And I still won't =D.
SLiFE's Avatar - Comment posted on 11/04/2007 01:19
SLiFE
Mainframe Entertainment, Vancouver BC. EA Canada, Burnaby BC (a suburb of Vancouver, with the offices being 2 minutes from the border).
By all means, this game should have been great. Synergy, people. It's the future.
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