Revolution X (by TanRans)

Revolution X is an arcade light gun game developed and published by Midway, with the soundtrack done by Aerosmith. The game was ported to the SNES which was actually developed by Rageware and is what I will be playing and reviewing for you. The game is a standard rail shooter in which you "the Protagonist" have to save the band Aerosmith from the "New Order Nation" or the "N.O.N." who have declared war on youth. The game starts with a man or robot thing yelling at you saying "WAKE UP! The revolution has begun! Generation X is in effect" and then you see a helicopter fly by until you get to what looks like a club.

The gameplay is almost unbearable and since you can't use a light gun you have to use the D-pad on the controller, this is true on any and I repeat ANY of the home console ports, which  makes aiming ridiculously hard to do. You have 2 weapons a machine-gun and a rocket launcher, I didn't realize I had the machine-gun until the second level because I am used to using the right shoulder button to shoot, however you don't need the machine-gun because the rockets never seem to run out of ammo and it's a one hit kill while the machine gun takes 4 or 5 bullets to kill an enemy. You never know if your getting shot because there isn't any sign of it like the screen shaking or turning red for a second and that makes you die a lot, but that doesn't matter because you have infinite continues for whatever reason. The worst thing about the game is actually beating it, you have to find all five of the band members of Aerosmith to get the real ending of the game, and they are all in hidden places, if that isn't ridiculous I don't know what is.

The graphics aren't good in any way, they are digitized sprites just like Mortal Kombat but they do a poor job of showing what the SNES can do. The enemies look like they belong in a motocross game, they look like they are wearing dirt biking gear, and some of them look like they are wearing roller skates and they are rolling around with there legs not moving. The sound is horrible but don't take my word for it because I loathe Aerosmith and I mean that. All the music is a loop of the same song over and over (I don't know the song because I hate Aerosmith so much) but honestly that is just annoying and gives me a headache. The voices make me want to cry they all sound like a recording that was put on a CD and left out in the sun for 3 years.

Overall this game is so bad that it has made me take off all of my clothes in anger. You will not have fun playing this game unless you have some weird disease where you like bad games. I will give this barely playable, poor excuse for a video game 13/100 points


By the way, I have heard good things about the arcade cabinet of this game. This review only covers the SNES version.