If you watched Nickelodeon in the early 2000s, you might remember a cartoon called Rocket Power. The show revolved around 4 kids who love to do all kinds of sports like skateboarding, snowboarding, and more. A couple of years after being on Nickelodeon, Rocket Power: Rocket Team Rescue came out on the PlayStation. Now it wasn’t uncommon for cartoons on Nickelodeon to get their video games. It happened for Rugrats, Aah! Real Monsters and Spongebob Squarepants. Was Rocket Power: Team Rocket Rescue any good?
The gameplay is a bunch of events. The first event is snowboarding. All you have to do is finish the course, and every gateway you go through gives you extra time. In the next level, you have two minutes to find the six pieces of your bike while you are on rollerblades. This is more difficult than it sounds for a couple of reasons.
The first reason this is so difficult is because there is no mini-map displaying where the pieces are. You have to go around the level and be lucky enough to find all six pieces in two minutes. Another reason this level is so difficult is because some of the pieces are on the roof of buildings and getting up there is not easy. While there are ramps, when you reach the top of the ramp, your character may turn around and go down the ramp instead of reaching the top of the building.
You can play as any of the four main characters and any of the events you unlock, you can play anytime you want. There is also a challenge mode with different requirements, the first being finding six seashells in 40 seconds.
The controls are another problem in this game. The acceleration button and the kickflip button are the same. You hold down the button to accelerate and when you let go of the accelerate button is when your character kickflips and that’s the only thing you have for a jump. The other button lets you grind and do tricks and you can rearrange which buttons do which but you can’t separate the acceleration and kickflip buttons. Regardless of what button layout you choose, they will be the same button regardless.
The story of the game is that Rocket Boards business is losing money and without a miracle, it looks like Rocket Boards will go out of business. Otto, his sister, and friends are told to enter a competition representing Rocket Boards. If they achieve first in every event, the publicity will bring in more than enough business to Rocket Boards to keep them open. So the four agree to enter the competition in their city.
The graphics of the game are not that bad. It looks like the cartoon that aired on Nickelodeon so the graphics are fine. The voices are not bad because they also sound like the characters from the cartoon. I also like the music that plays so there is nothing I would change about the sound.
Once you finish the game, you could play the events that you played in the story mode as mentioned earlier, or do the challenge which gives you different objectives on a level.
So the gameplay is not fun and it’s not easy to play. The controls make the game more difficult than it has to be. The story mode makes sense and sounds like it could have been from the cartoon. I like the graphics and sound. If you enjoyed the events, there is replayability. So I give Rocket Power: Team Rocket Rescue on the PlayStation 4 out of 10. The controls prevent most people from accomplishing anything in this game. Also by the time this game came out, you had Tony Hawk, Dave Mirra, and 3Xtreme on the PlayStation among others which were much more enjoyable to play than this game. So this game is not worth playing.
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