Rolling Thunder 2 review - Sega Megadrive
If you like watching the Simpsons or WWF Wrestling, 2014 is not the year for you. Many of Earth's communication satellites have mysteriously started to disappear. The global flow of information (and home shopping channels) has been disrupted and much of western civilisation has been thrown into chaos.
All is not lost yet, however, as one Government organisation still has its secret satellites operational and therefore has enough information to solve the mystery. That organisation is the Special Assignments Division, and they've dispatched their top agents Albatross (the hero of the original Rolling Thunder) and Leila to find out what's going on. The news is bad, however. Alby's old nemesis, the terrorist organisation GELDRA, has risen anew and is destroying satellites like there's no tomorrow so they can take over the world and make sure there IS no tomorrow!
Albatross and Leila have just two game days to get through the eleven platform levels that make up the entire GELDRA organisation and destroy the nerve centre. Failure will result in the planet being doomed...
What the Mean Machines staff thought
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Scott H's comments |
Ryan Lambie - 07 Aug 2008, 15:03 GMT
Not wishing to be pedantic ,but the first Rolling Thunder game came out a year before the original Shinobi, so it was in fact Sega that copied Namco....
Dan - 11 Mar 2009, 14:16 GMT
Not the greatest of games by any means, and by todays standards very forgetable, but RT2 had a certain charm to it that, combined with well designed levels and a good challenge, made it very enjoyable. Wouldn't touch it now, but fond memories.