Changing is as easy as pressing down and up to switch between Rally and Bike mode, or pressing square to change into Robot mode. Bike mode is good for gaining speed, Rally mode is good for turning and exploring and Robot mode is your character’s mode of attack. Each mode serves a different purpose to help you while you’re playing. It’s capable of changing into three different modes: Bike, Rally and Robot. The Gunbike is a mixture of KITT from Knight Rider and a Transformer. The vehicle that each character in the game uses is called a Gunbike. The game engine is something along the lines of a racing game, but you do no actual racing against anyone.
While the specifics of the storyline escape me, the general feeling you get is that this representation of the future is not unlike any other typical war-plagued future. Gunbike takes place in Japan in the year 2097.
Add some Engrish to the mixture, and you have a genuinely memorable experience. Gunbike is an interesting title that mixes a few different styles of gameplay in order to deliver something that’s somewhat unorthodox, but fun. This article, however, is about a game in that 10% range. That’s probably a true statement 90% of the time. This would lead you to believe that perhaps the titles in question are no good. Now, all of this may sound nice and irrelevant, but it leads into the point of the article, trust me.ĭespite all of the information available on games these days, there are still a few titles that no one will ever bother writing about. With countless fan sites, dedicated to the most niche titles, and sites such as VGMuseum it has become easier than ever to find out about a game than ever before. However, in the current year, 2005, the likelihood of not being able to find someone who has played that game is a near impossibility. It could have been a weird game that you played at a friend’s house, or it may have even been a game that you owned (but that no one had ever heard of). Years ago, before the Internet became the ever-expanding universe of useless information that it is, it was quite possible for obscure game titles to slip by completely unnoticed.