A classic time-waster, awesome multiplayer game, and a quirky crazy good time.

User Rating: 8.8 | ChuChu Rocket! (w/Controller) DC
By Pfilosophy | Review Date:
If you've seen the commercial and/or have played this game once before, my review could simplified to just "Chu Chu Rocket is good." Chu Chu Rocket is damn good. The point of the game is simple. Get all the mice you can in your spaceship before the time runs out and make sure the cats roaming about don't eat any mice in their paths or get to your spaceship. If a cat enters your ship, your mouse count is reduced by 33%. "I've got 300 mice, yay, oh no, no, not again, damn! I have 200 mice now. No, stop sending cats my way!" Craziness. The premise and the controls are simple. Press the button facing a direction on a space and an arrow forms facing that direction to send cats and mice thataway.

Like Othello, playing the game and learning some nifty tricks won't take you very long but mastering Chu times 2 is nigh impossible. Your style might be to send all the mice your way while someone else's strategy might be to send all the cats your way while a 3rd or 4th player might very well just want to create chaos and divert all of your arrows. Either way, the gameplay goes from "tee hee lots of fun yay" to "curse you, vile retch, I will NOT be defeated by the likes of you!" in mere moments. When playing with 3 other people, Chu Chu Rocket is more than a fun and creative puzzle game. It becomes war.

The framerate is fast, the action is even faster, and the competition gets fierce as hell. Racing against the clock, talking trash is usually seen in other games like sports or racing but puzzle games? I sure don't remember Mr. Driller ever making me want to throw my controller at someone else. The presentation of the game is silly and weird. A squeeky voice appears to yell "Slow doooown," and all of the sudden the music is slowed and everyone moves sluggishly. Then out of nowhere "speed up!" Things like this and mouse madness truly pump up your blood, forcing you to act before you think and make sure you either win by a landslide victory or you just give up on winning and vindictively attack your opponents with hordes of cats. In a time where everyone is too busy concerned with grammar, Chu Chu Rocket is needed more than ever with its unapologetic quick impulse-driven style of gameplay in which you win by making other people lose. I personally have never had as much fun screaming at my friends as when I was playing this game.

If you have a Dreamcast, there's a 95% chance that you have this game already. If you don't, stop whatever it is preventing you from having this game immediately and join us. If, however, you've never played this game - get a Dreamcast from a store somewhere or on ebay for cheap and nab yourself a copy of Chu Chu Rocket.

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