Rosco Mcqueen

Please forgive my bluntness, but this game does not deserve to be in the PlayStation library. I haven't seen such a simplistic and repetitive game in a long time. Getting through each stage is a real challenge, not because the game is tough, mind you, but because you do the same thing, over and over and over. And over. Kill enemy. Fight fire. Get more water. Repeat. I kept playing in hopes that the later levels would offer something a bit new or exciting. No such luck. The cartoonish graphics, silly sound effects and simple gameplay may lead you to think that this game was designed for children. Maybe so. but I have a hard time imagining younger gamers could tolerate the shoddy controls--another huge low point of the game. It feels like Rosco is wearing lead boots in the game when he's running around hosing down fires. Aiming is sluggish and precise jumping is almost non-existent. The only people who may appreciate this Saturday morning cartoon are very small children who have never played a good game to be able to tell the difference. Hey, if Rosco McQueen is the first video game you've ever played, then you wouldn't know any better now, would you? Are there any positive things I can say about Rosco McQueen? Ummm...the graphics are nice and colorful...that's all.

Despite the similar gameplay premise, this is not the PlayStation's answer to Burning Rangers. Rosco McQueen is such a simple (i.e., dull) action game that I doubt it'll appeal to anyone out of grade school. Run around, put out fires, rescue victims, collect power-ups, move on to the next boxy level, yawn. The levels lack variety (more secret areas would be a start). And I could do without the cheesy sound effects.

This is actually a pretty awful 3D action game that's masquerading as something original and different. Once you spend some time with the dreadfully linear gameplay, the simple objectives and the naff premise, you realize that it's actually like a first-generation PlayStation game with slightly better graphics and a really stupid name. I like the fact that Rosco's hose seems to run on bottles of Evian though. Very chic.

If I was 10 years younger I might have gotten more of a kick out of playing Rosco McQueen. It's definitely geared toward a younger audience--at least I hope it is. The graphics are OK, but Rosco's just kind of a strange, mostly mindless game. The puzzles (if you can call them that) aren't very interesting or challenging. Even Rosco himself is lame, and so are his catch-phrases. RM is more of a possible rental than anything else.