9 Video Game Titles Which Lied To You

7. Rocket: Robot On Wheels

FFIV title
Ubisoft

Rocket: Robot on Wheels, Sucker Punch's debut title before they moved on to greater things starring light-fingered raccoons, is just about the best 3D platformer no-one's ever heard of. The N64 game sees you hack into the circuitry of the titular robotic unicycle Rocket, for a frolicking, physics-based collectathon that's all the fun of the fairground. Best of all, the game came on a red cartridge, for no conceivable reason.

The one thing which separates Rocket from its countless N64 contemporaries - and we literally mean 'one thing' here - is the protagonist's patented wheel, which informs everything about the way he controls. Precariously balancing on a single tyre obviously makes for some tricksy platforming, then - enough to put off some potential players.

Perhaps that's why publishers Ubisoft choose to ignore its USP when they called it Rocket: Robot on Wheels. It's really, quite specifically a unicycle. Boy, I hope someone got fired for that blunder.

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