RIP - Trilogy™

Outdated visuals, poor gameplay, unpolished design

Cute little tower shooter that admittedly isnt great, but if you are looking for a game that harkens back to the early 00's era of flash games, this is it.

A very simple top-down shooter with a noteworthy premise; you control a turret instead of a mobile character and your job is to bombard and gun down the enemies as they all come to you.

The gameplay is simple, yet interesting. There are different weapons, different abilities, and cooldowns that ensure you're not just mindlessly holding the fire button. There's also a leveling choice between "levels" which gives reason to plan for the playthrough.

The presentation is interesting in my opinion. The top-down environments, vehicles (including your turret) look like serious scenes from some PlayStation 1/early PS2 - era game, yet the characters you play as are hand-drawn.

There is a light plot, but I don't really get it. Some pig guy does something some supernatural entities dislike, and they go after him. How they do that in a turret is anyone's guess.

On which note, visually, the star of this game are the playable characters. You can choose three and each has his own abilities. My personal favorite is Halloween; single-handedly these guys - with their art, animation, brief tongue-in-cheek, campy descriptions, and even some unique voice lines - make RIP an interesting thing to see and come back to.

On the cheap I recommend it.

Worth noting is I've only played the first. I have not even beaten it yet, let alone touch 2 or 3 yet. If you have an interest in hole-in-the-wall homebrew computer games, this could be interesting now and again.

The RIP trilogy is definitely a relic of an outdated era of gaming and I'm torn on whether to recommend it. RIP is a series of twin-stick shooters that play like classic flash games. They are not deep, they are not must-play, but they can be fun.

RIP 1 is an interesting one, as its a turret based shooter with no movement. It's a perfectly okay experience for what it is, even if I'd only buy it as part of this trilogy.

RIP 2 adds movement, but is ultimately a mixed bag of balance that I'd recommend skipping.

But RIP 3 is worth a discounted sale price on its own. It's a good combination of interesting weapons, functional level ups, varied maps, big bosses and vehicle stages to break up the sameness.

The RIP trilogy is a perfectly fine purchase if you're in the mood for an old school flash-style shooter. But if you're looking for something meatier then you should look elsewhere.

I've written three reviews for this trilogy now, as I've played through the three games. They get a lot of hate on here, but I don't know why. Yes, they're a bit... 90s... But RIP1 and 3 are great.. Huge sprites, challenging levels... Think of it as a mobile defense game, or a twin-stick shooter, but with the sprite-drawing power of a proper computer.... The sprites are so large they make me think of the Neo-Geo...

RIP1 is a pretty easy game. It took me an hour or so to complete. You're a turret somewhere on the screen and things run at you and try to destroy you. Occasionally a skeleton runs by withe a blue orb you can click or shoot to give a buff or a weapon. In RIP1 you switch to the new weapon and the old one is discarded, which can be a bit of a shame sometimes. All in all, I really enjoyed it.

RIP2 is a mess. Level balance is all over the place, there are glitches and you just have to hack the game to progress. If you don't , you CAN get through, but it's a massive exercise in frustration, even on "normal" difficulty. I'd skip RIP2, even though it adds more weps and buffs, and allows you to move around instead of being a fixed turret.

RIP3 is a brilliant ending to the trilogy. You can move around, there's a story, there's some really REALLY nice weapons, the enemies are really varied and the levels (mostly) balance well. It's got a huge amount of variability and some MAAAAHOOOSIVE sprites flying around all over the place. A seriously solid little game, and good fun to play through. Took me about 2 hours to finish.


All in all, I'm giving this series a thumbs-up, but that's entirely due to RIP1 and 3. RIP2 needs some love to be good, but the developer seems to have abandoned the project, and questions remain unanswered in the community hub.

The sounds are repetitive, as is the music, the resolution is low and the gameplay a bit repetitive. However, for a quick blast of fun, have a go and see how far you get. Then take a breather, work out a new strategy and try again.

The games DO need some strategy, it's not simply point-and-shoot. RIP3 especially gives you a few weps to choose from. One is almost always useless, but the other two you have are usually good to get the job done.

Lots of fun, recommended, especially RIP3.

This is a throwback to the quality of 1990s-era shareware titles - and I'm not talking about Doom, Stargoose, or One Must Fall: 2097. The RIP trilogy is worse even than Jill of the Jungle, The Catacomb Abyss, or the Hugo games - all second-stringers from the golden age of shareware. This is the bottom of the barrel - an eighth-grader's first game project, with all the gore and violence but none of the understanding that comes from an adult's intuition of how to create a compelling player experience. Please, I beg of you - your time is worth far more than this. Avoid it.

Budget top-down slaughterfest in style of Crimsonland which I haven't played but that's the current description of a genre.

Uhhhh, I have few interesting lines but can't be arsed to write a cohesive narrative to put them in so there it is:

RIP? Moar like Rip in Pepperpony! That meme still amuses me.

RIP 1 was the best game I've played with one hand. Not that there were hot furry girls+. I was just eating cheburek with one hand while in this game you are just a stationary turret.

I only like a skill of one of a chars where your cursor itself does fire damage. Unique, I bet.

RIP 2 is same but you can move on your own and enter turrets and vehicles. Still freaking slow and boring.

One reviewer said that the plot in these games were as if written by 14 year old Russians. Well, would you know, it is made by Russians! Oh our legacy. Age not confirmed.

RIP 3 is actually mmmmm decent for a genre which still makes it a waste of time in a big picture that isn't Steam's big picture but big picture of a big picture. Hordes are hordes, explosions big, decals don't disappear unless you alt-tab then rip your blood.

I sure have RIPped them apart!

PS: While these games are confined to a single screen per level they have obstacles so they might be a bit more than just a RIPoff of Crimsonlands, who knows!
Not that they are worth your time today.

This is a weird one. I actually quite liked those games when they came out all those years ago. Probably even beat one of them (don't know any more witch one). But since then I have played a lot of games, better ones, even in this arena defence* genre, and the RIP games have not aged well. Perhaps a remake would be nice, with a silly title like RIP Retrology where old levels and ideas are recreated on a new game engine with some new elements thrown in. This could work.
6/10

*I actually don't know, if that is the correct term.

Looks like a buggy flash player game, but to the price compared this is pretty decent game. Got it for around 1,3 e with 4 other games. It even gets challenging after a while. 3/10

The game is fun, but has 2 big issue.

The mouse movement seems to be terrible, it often fails to pick up movements.

The tanks hp seems to be broken as the game is about impossible to beat without lowering their health in the files.

The RIP Trilogy, along with the other Meridian4 games, are among the first games I've bought here on Steam. Most games published by Meridian4 are 'OK' games. As far as I know none of the games are amazing but none of them are garbage aswell. Same goes for the RIP trilogy.

The RIP Trilogy, obviously exists of three games:
-RIP
-RIP2:Strike Back
-RIP3:The Last Hero

All three games are pretty much the same; Kill all spawning enemies, Pick up powerups/weapons and level up. The only real difference I can come up with would be the fact you controll a stationary base cannon in RIP(1), whereas in the other two games you'll be able to walk around and in later in the game, you will be able to controll vehicles.

Gameplay is standard but fun and quite addictive. You could compare it to 'Crimsonland' which, most likely took this game as an example. The weird thing though, while many people rate Crimsonland positively, I do not get the negative ratings about this trilogy. It's obvious a lot more work has been involved in the RIP-Trilogy compared to Crimsonland, just look at the screenshots.

The RIP-Trilogy is not perfect and it's not for everyone but I believe fans of the genre won't be dissapointed.

Simple arcade shooter that does not fit everyone's taste. I like all three games from trilogy even if I most like to play first or third one and not so much second. This retro feel is my liking and characters are cool.

Play the third installment of RIP if you ever decide to pick this up.
You're not missing out on the first two.

This game is full of non-sensical gibberish where you can play either Death, the Super Devil or October 31st on a never ending struggle against...whatever cyborg fiction they're fighting against, I don't know, I'm still on the grammar for Super Devil, so I just shut my brain down for it's wondrous story going up against cyborg shotgun wielding Lycantropes, or at least that's what I saw in RIP 3's opening.

...what? My review doesn't make sense?
Neither does this game.

In any case, the game isn't entirely all that bad gameplay wise, but I did get this game in a bundle, so I'm just making use out of my $2.50.

I need a drink.

Fun timewaster, especially good value on sale for $1 as you often find it.

Note that I had encountered a crash issue in middle of the 2nd game's campaign which kept me from progressing, but #1 and #3 worked fine.

This was also way back when on an XPx32 system, so your mileage may vary on modern OS'.

The RIP Trilogy are basic shooter games. The first one is painful as you sit stationary, and have to shoot enemies as they approach from all directions. The second and third are twin stick shooters that are more comical than anything else. The second one is fair, but the third one is was incredibly easy until a train decided to derail and chase me, which was the most hillarious moment I had in the game. I died instantly, which was totally worth it.

If you like twin stick shooters, try Smash TV, Robotron, Hotline Miami, and just about anything else. After you tried them all, come check this out just for a good laugh.

If you're up for a fun, no-nonsense, classic style, old-school, twin-stick shooter with very straightforward bish-bash-bosh gameplay then you can do a lot worse.

I have no idea where the all the hate comes from, I mean, what do you expect, look at the goddamn screenshots or do some youtube research!!
The first "RIP" game is a very short and very shitty game, a turret-shooter with a playing time of 1 hour, insane difficulty changes from level to level and without any climatic structure whatsoever, terribly frustrating and once you are through you either cheated, played on lowest difficulty or tried way too hard for this lazy piece of 90s-software shit that I wouldn´t even recommend nowadays as an office break because there are flashgame with way better....everything!

RIP 2 is a decent top-down-shooter though, because you can finally move, decide from where and how to shoot on your own, the insane number of enemies and action on the screen provides a fun time for about 3 hours, and together with a lot of powerups, cool weapons, 6 bosses with nice little fights and different weapons/moves and...yeah, not tactics but at least "placed to shoot at", I can recommend it if you´re into this kind of genre, you get some updates and the soundtrack is ok.

And then, the main reason to buy this package may be the newest part, because RIP 3 is like an extended version of the second part and with 6 characters in total, alotta upgrades and weapons and enemies and vehicles and bosses, 100 levels for a decent time to finish the game, changing settings and so on it´s silly top-down-action fun and imho worth a few bucks. It tries to have a story of some sort, you can create different profiles, there is a multiplayer - even if noone plays it anymore - a loca co-op which is fun and can even be played via controller, you have nice drawings, a skill-tree, better upgrades and all in all it´s just a good game on it´s own, if you liked the second one you will LOVE this and if you didn´t you should still give a chance. So if this package is in sale as it was a few times before, then grab it and have you 8 or so hours fun with part 2 and 3, take the easy difficulty because 2 is kinda unfair and hard then and when and definetly skip the first part, but as long as you don´t pay more than like, 3 or 4 bucks it should be fine, I mean you know what you signed in for by just watching a few gameplay vids and back at their release time these games costed like 5 bucks EACH so this deal should be fine. Really looking forward to play part 3 again :) Mindless fun.

The first one is boring, the second terrible, and the third mediocre.

The story sounds like it was written by a 14 year old, in Russian, then ran through BabelFish.

Not worth it, even at this low a price.

R.I.P. 3, while the graphics are dated, I actually had fun with.

It's not a great game, but the local co-op was a lot of fun.

A cool little top down shooter. No story, but it's clearly an arcade game so I didn't expect one. The leveling system seems balanced and the only criticism I have is for the unit pathing in some levels where units get locked in areas you can't target them.

I can easily, EASILY say that the RIP Trilogy are some of the worst games I've ever played. They are the secret shame of my Steam library. The graphics are amateurish, the gameplay forgettable, the story could have been written better by an eleven-year old. Do yourself a favor and play Crimsonland, or some other good game of this genre.

Even if this is on sale for a dollar, you'd get more enjoyment physically lighting a dollar on fire, and watching the brief flame.