Rambo Gameplay Trailer Evokes Memories Of a Different Era

[Ihateregistering1]

What's really making me laugh is that, in the 'First Blood' part when he's gunning down the various Deputies, for anyone who has actually seen "First Blood", you'd know that one of the ironic aspects of the film is that Rambo doesn't purposefully kill anyone.

I think there is one death, and it was a guy falling out of a helicopter and it was the guy's own fault.

Like I said, he doesn't kill anyone on purpose, but it's ironic because we think of Rambo as being the stereotypical 80's action hero who somehow kills 600 bad guys single-handedly in each movie, but in the first film he kills MAYBE 1 person.

 

[Andy Chalk]

I'm in the same camp, wasn't First Blood more about the wars of Vietnam and a guy who couldn't let it go, so a game is made to bring all that back, thereby missing the whole damn point of that movie?

Yeah, the game is definitely more in line with the sequels than with First Blood, which was also fundamentally different than the sequels: Lots of action, lots of violence, but it was really more of a protest movie about the fundamentally shitty treatment given to Vietnam vets throughout the 70s and 80s. It's a message that's easily lost amidst all the sound and fury (and buried by the sequels) but as others have pointed out, Rambo really didn't kill anyone in the first movie - he lashed out against a system that simultaneously rejected and oppressed him but he wasn't a murderous character.

 

[fractal_butterfly]

I have never seen the first Rambo movie, but it seems a bit off that he is mowing down police men with a machine gun. Wasn't the movie more like some kind of Drama?
The rest of the trailer looks like some kind of parody, reminds me more of "Hot Shots Part Deux" or this one scene from UHF. This game is meant to be serious, not a parody, or am I wrong?

 

[putowtin]

So ten quid after a week then?

I have never seen the first Rambo movie, but it seems a bit off that he is mowing down police men with a machine gun. Wasn't the movie more like some kind of Drama?

your quite right, it was all about how the veterans were treated badly when they returned after the war. He killed one person, and that wasn't a deliberate murder. In the original script Rambo committed suicide at the end.

 

[Crazy Zaul]

Looks like a cross between Duke Nukem and Ride to hell or a really bad mod of Far Cry's engine.