Tyco R/C: Assault with a Battery

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Tyco R/C: Assault with a Battery
Tyco rc assault coverart.jpg
Developer(s) Lucky Chicken Games
Publisher(s) Mattel Interactive
Designer(s) Matt Saia and Keith Kirby
Composer(s) Robert Casady
Platform(s) PlayStation
Release
  • NA: September 19, 2000 [1]
  • JP: June 13, 2002
Genre(s) Racing, Simulation
Mode(s) Single-player, multiplayer

Tyco R/C: Assault With a Battery is a PlayStation game that shipped in September 2000. The game was based on the Tyco Toys R/C brand radio-controlled cars and features, and hence has titles from real R/C cars by Tyco. The game was developed by Lucky Chicken Games and published by Mattel Interactive. It received some acclaim from online game review sources, [2] but was lost at retail during Mattel's exit of the Video Games business as a result of their failed acquisition of The Learning Company.

Contents

The name of the game is a play on words of two types of crimes, Assault and Battery.

Vehicles

Reception

The game received average reviews according to the review aggregation website GameRankings. [3] Emmett Schkloven of NextGen said that the game was "Neither a monster nor a must-have, but a quick and entertaining diversion nonetheless." [10] In Japan, where the game was ported and published by Syscom as part of the World Greatest Hits Series on June 13, 2002, Famitsu gave it a score of 23 out of 40. [7]

Notes

  1. In GameFan 's viewpoint of the game, three critics gave it each a score of 60, 72, and 71.

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