Viewtiful Joe: Red Hot Rumble
Captain Blue is casting for the lead in his new action movie and the competition is RED HOT! Fight head-to-head against your friends - whoever is the most kick-butt lands the starring role!
Viewtiful Joe: Red Hot Rumble is a fighting developed by Clover Studio, released 29 September 2005 on PlayStation Portable and Nintendo GameCube.
What Viewtiful Joe: Red Hot Rumble is
Viewtiful Joe: Red Hot Rumble is a fighting game developed by Clover Studio and released in 2005. It was published by Capcom. It is available on PlayStation Portable and Nintendo GameCube.
The premise, in the publisher's words
A party-style brawler drawing its cast and comic-book flair from the Viewtiful Joe series and its animated show, Red Hot Rumble frames its action as a movie in the making. The eccentric director Captain Blue is hard at work on his latest film and hits upon a novel way to cast its lead: rather than a simple audition, he stages a full-blown battle tournament, pitting the series' colorful heroes and villains against one another to decide who is worthy of the starring role. As the contestants clash across chaotic, cinematic stages, however, something begins to go wrong on set. Unauthorized props and equipment appear out of nowhere, and increasingly strange, dangerous occurrences threaten the…
How it plays
It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are action. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
Where it sits in the Viewtiful Joe series
Viewtiful Joe: Red Hot Rumble is the fourth of 10 entries we hold in the Viewtiful Joe series. It arrived 10 months after Viewtiful Joe 2. The next entry was Viewtiful Joe: Double Trouble! in 2005. Its critic score of 60 is 19 points below the series average of 79. The highest-rated entry is Viewtiful Joe at 90.
How it was received
Viewtiful Joe: Red Hot Rumble holds a critic score of 60 out of 100. That places it above 21% of the 981 rated fighting games in our database, which average 68. Games released in 2005 averaged 67, so it scored 7 points below the year average.
What it launched against
Viewtiful Joe: Red Hot Rumble launched on 29 September 2005, within three weeks of Shadow of the Colossus, Fahrenheit (Indigo Prophecy), Indigo Prophecy and F.E.A.R.. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: Shadow of the Colossus, Fahrenheit (Indigo Prophecy), Indigo Prophecy, F.E.A.R..
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