G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra

released on Aug 04, 2009

After the events of the film, Duke and Scarlett travels to the Arctic and free Heavy Duty, Ripcord and Snake Eyes from the M.A.R.S Detention Center. Also, they fight the Baroness and bring her to the Pit. In Egypt, the Joes learn that Cobra is taking the Apep (Gem), and must defeat Firefly. In the jungle, the Joes learn that Cobra is making a pyramid-like building in the middle of the jungle. From there, the Joes must defeat James McCullen (who now takes the identity of Destro) at the rooftop of the pyramid building. Finally, they must defeat the Cobra Commander and Storm Shadow at North Magnetic Pole Volcano base.


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Yeah, this one's pretty bad. Even with friends.

I def played this and forgot it existed after the last time i closed the game.

my brother bought this for me for christmas :DDDDD

Shoutout Michael you a real one fo dat, you're son/my nephew is hot af fuck now frfr

Platinumed in February. Originally played October 2020.

I was so surprised to see this game get as bad if not worse ratings than the Watchmen game. This is so much better. It's another movie game that came out in 2009 but this one is actually finished! It has variation to it, it's colorful, and it's mildly fun. I didn't exactly know what to expect with this game, but what it is certainly wasn't what I had in mind. This game plays like a throwback to old 80s and 90s arcade games where you move forward, hold the shoot button as you have unlimited ammo, and strafe left and right to avoid the attacks coming down the screen. It almost plays like a 3D Galaga or 1942 in a sense. This actually might have been better if it was just a twin sticks shooter.

The graphics look like garbage but I can forgive that when it's actually a completed game that's somewhat fun. I liked the variation on all the characters that you can unlock. Finding the best combo of characters and playing around with them to discover the best pairing was a bit of fun. You have your secondary fire that you gain through power ups and pick ups then you also have your accelerator suit from the movie as basically your super move. You have to strategically use these to your advantage and sort of know when to hold em and know when to fold em for lack of a better metaphor. The fact that this game actually had a bit of strategy and variation to it was a welcome surprise after the awful Watchmen game. There's even bits of driving sections to this game. Even though it's incredibly hard to control the vehicles with just the one joystick, at least it's there.

The level design is alright and they all don't feel the same. Even though it's basically rinse and repeat, this game offered just enough wrinkles to be competent and fun enough. It's comic booky, cartoony, and doesn't take itself seriously. It made me wish the movie was a lot better and that this franchise would have taken off like the MCU did because I feel there is a lot of potential. Overall I had fun with this game. It wasn't a broken, glitchy mess. It was never frustrating. I liked the bonus content that you could unlock like the featurettes of the music of the movie and the old 80s cartoon PSAs. Plus this was one of the first ever PS3 games to support trophies. All that together made this a surprisingly mildly fun experience.

Fun game with my little brother but I am not going to play it ever again