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395:, over 200 accessible buildings, and a destructible environment. In addition to a story mode following the three main characters, the player can break away from missions to free-roam the map and extort local businesses, use a variety of weapons to cause chaos, attempt arcade-like challenges and mini-games, purchase real-estate in a market that fluctuates in response, steal cars, or purchase clothing from stores. Combat is similar to 662: 657: 652: 647: 642: 713:
that improved on many of its aspects. However, Carter noted there were some minor mission-interrupting glitches, and criticized the story's presentation: "I don't think the tritagonist focus (you play as the CEO's son and the company's main Winston Wolf fixer) really serves the narrative, nor does it
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rentals, and taxi services. The CEO, together with his unemployed adult son Scooter and a henchman known only as "The Consultant", band together to rebuild Feeble into a corporate empire. Their arsenal of unscrupulous tactics includes violating consumer protection standards, razing buildings to make
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s Jeff Cork also gave the game an 8/10, highlighting the abundance of content and humorous tone, but describing the economy as unbalanced because it was possible to earn enough money to trivialize the acquisition of late-game purchases. In his summation, Cork stated, "The economy might be a little
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way for redevelopment, competing on a dangerous game show, destroying package delivery trucks, raiding a drug cartel, and shaking down other businesses. A subplot centers around the CEO's son Scooter as he joins a gang and performs tasks for the gang's leader, Tad.
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scored the game an 8/10. Reviewer Chris Carter praised the gameplay, visuals, soundtrack, and "relaxed emphasis on doing whatever you want", calling the game a worthy follow-up to
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version for free, as well as synchronize save progress between that version and other owned PlayStation versions of the game. A physical version was announced in September 2022.
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versions on June 26, 2020. Both versions included all major content updates released to that point, and allowed the player to play the game with a sideways
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version was released on July 9 exclusively in Europe with only a limited run of 3,000 copies, due to the system's obsolescence and
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version released on August 20, 2020 in three different editions: a digital download format that was available on the Wii U's
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has received reviews ranging from "generally favorable" to "mixed or average" depending on platform according to
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s usage of the same conceit. I mostly just found myself playing as the CEO as he is the crux of the tale."
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on September 19, 2019 in North America, and September 26, 2019 in Europe and Australia. A port for the
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would be digitally released on the same day, featuring the same post-release content added to the
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version released worldwide the following month, with a physical release for
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developed by Canadian studio Vblank Entertainment. Like its predecessor
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delivers a nice blast of classic arcade action and some solid laughs."
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Launches On 3DS eShop This Month, Includes The "Full Tank" Update"
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version. This was the final game to be released physically on the
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in North America, and the last game overall to be available on a
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to three consoles that were discontinued in recent years: the
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features an open world island with 16-bit style graphics, a
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on any other PlayStation platform are able to download the
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in Europe, the final game to be released physically on the
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and the latter supporting native Wii U controllers. The
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consoles. This was also the final physically released
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Developer(s)
Publisher(s)
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Microsoft Windows
Nintendo 3DS
Nintendo Switch
PlayStation 3
PlayStation 4
PlayStation 5
PlayStation Vita
Wii
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PAL
EU
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Genre(s)
Action-adventure
Single-player
open world
action-adventure video game
Retro City Rampage
parody
retro games
pop culture
Grand Theft Auto
similar games

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