Redneck Rampage looks smarter but feels as dumb as ever with this modern port

Redneck Rampage

Well, we crash-landed that UFO in the desert and Bubba says he wants to go home. Heck, I don't blame him 'cause there ain't no place like Hickston. But according to my map, we're gonna have to blast our way through jack o' lope farms and a riverboat as well as a brothel 'fore we get home again.

If Blood was Duke Nukem 3D‘s cool goth brother, then Redneck Rampage was always the weird cousin that turns up drunk to family gatherings – rude, crude and dumb as a sack of hammers. While it has been available for some time on Steam and GOG, 1997’s Redneck Rampage always felt a little stiff and awkward when emulated through DOSBox, until today.

Thanks to Alexander “M210” Makarov’s RedneckGDX, you can now enjoy Redneck Rampage and its sequel (soon) at any resolution, widescreen and more responsive than ever. I wouldn’t say it makes the game especially good, but it’s more playable. Plus, it’s always nice to see older games maintained like this.

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