Red Card Rampage rips up the App Store

Are you a soccer hooligan? Are you a soccer mom that doesn't like the referee in your kid's game? Heck, are you just a gamer who enjoys a good physics-based game? Red Card Rampage is out on the iOS, and you're probably wondering if it's worth the 99 cents.

TurboNUKE's Red Card Rampage makes no pretenses. It is what it is: 36 levels of a physics puzzler. Each level has one or more soccer players and referees littered throughout, and the goal is to get the soccer ball from the starting player all the way to the referee. Early on, it's pretty simple: aim the soccer ball, hold it long enough for correct strength in the kick for distance, and whack away. Later levels include switches, moving platforms, multiple soccer players to chain to and from, multiple referees, and the like. Sure, the game loses a little bit of the soccer mindset with floating girders, but they definitely increase the challenge in the gameplay.

The lack of the soccer ties later on prove to be the game's only real downfall. While the gameplay is solid, the graphics and audio seem almost like an afterthought. The title screen has some generic soccer players (and an almost "hilarious if it wasn't so deranged" design for a referee). While the game has eight teams to chose from, they all play and act the same, just have different colors. Additionally, the audio sounds generic and uninspired, and will quickly be muted.

Despite an uninspired presentation, the gameplay is quality enough to check out. Sure, some extra modes would expand the offerings, but a $.99 purchase gets you a good hour plus of gameplay. It's not too easy, not too hard, but Red Card Rampage is fun time-waster and brain-challenger.

Red Card Rampage is available in the App Store. A copy was supplied for review purposes.