It might be a cliché, but you don't ever really expect much from a game based on a recent film. Even if someone were to do one based on The King's Speech, it'd end up being a platform game where George VI would be bouncing off the heads of speech therapists and collecting coins with Edward VIII's face on them. Or something.
Rango then is one such game, a platformer that stars the titular lizard creature (he's a chameleon – film buff Ed) in a quest to find out what a glowing piece of green rock means to the desert town of Dirt, where he happens to be sheriff.
Backlog Quest is a month long special event on Clearance Bin Review featuring daily game reviews of the games that have sat on the shelf for simply too long; old and new.
From Day 26 – Rango, Tristan Rendo writes, "Rango takes places after the events of the movie with the same name, where the wandering chameleon turned town sheriff must investigate some very strange happenings. Ultimately, Rango saves the town of Dirt and possibly the world from strange alien creatures in a surprisingly fun platformer."
NWR: Rango for the Wii is the latest in a long history of cartoon-to-video-game adaptations. The game, developed by Behavior Interactive, features run-and-gun gameplay, but never at the same time.
Impulse Gamer - Based on the amusing movie of the same name, Rango, starring the master of a million personalities, Johnny Depp, this movie-based game is actually one of the better creations of late and as we all know that movie games can sometimes be quite the stinker. At its heart Rango is a competent action platformer that is aimed at the the younger gamer as they control the chameleon sheriff.
