Chili Con Carnage
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| Developer(s) | Deadline Games |
| Publisher(s) | Sci Entertainment Eidos |
| Release date(s) | February 27, 2007 (NA) |
| Genre(s) | Third-person shooter, Action |
| Mode(s) | Single player, multiplayer |
| Rating(s) | ESRB: Mature (M) (Drug Referance, Strong Language, Violence) BBFC 18 |
| Platform(s) | PSP |
Chili Con Carnage is an action/adventure third-person shooter video game. It plays very closely to the terms of Max Payne, but is not as themed toward Grand Theft Auto as Total Overdose was. Chili Con Carnage is developed by Deadline Games and published by Sci Entertainment in Europe and by Eidos in North America. The Playstation 2, Xbox and PC gameTotal Overdose, is the predecessor to Chili Con Carnage, of which it is a spinoff of. Total Overdose was released September, 27, 2005. Chili Con Carnage is not actually a true sequel to Total Overdose, as it goes by a different title and has a story that has nothing to do with Total Overdose. Many reviews of the game classify it as just a remake of Total Overdose for the PSP.
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[edit] Story
You are Ramiro "Ram" Cruz, an athletic, wisecracking Hispanic man. Ramiro, after witnessing his father Ernesto be assassinated, (Along with some kittens, which were Ram's birthday present to his father.) in a freak combine harvester accident, wants revenge on the culprits responsible. On Your quest for redemption, you will be taking down the most sinister drug lords, cutting through the most corrupt banditos, and battling it out with femme fatales, crooked mercenaries, and even ritualistic zombies. In between the missions, you can choose to play mini games, in which you are plopped right into the middle of a situation, and must complete a number of moves (Fly on the Wall, Burrito Blast, Etc.) With a limited number of enemies, or beat a set score in a limited amount of time. There is no free roaming option in Chili Con Carnage.
[edit] Characters
Ramiro "Ram" Cruz
The main protagonist in the game, You will be playing as him throughout the entire game. Ram is an athletic latino with street skills and a tendency for extreme sports and moves. He witnesses the assassination of his father when he goes to give him his birthday present. Fuelled by the need for revenge he embarks on a journey to bring the perpetrators the ultimate justice. His nickname, given to him by his enemies in the game is "El Gringo Loco".
Character Difference: In Total Overdose, He was more wreckless, and was an insane felon, who was released from prison only to help the DEA. He could carjack and kill innocent civilians, in the city. He is more rightfully motivated in Chili Con Carnage, only wanting to avenge his father's death. He is not noted to have been a felon in Chili Con Carnage's storyline. His shirt color has also changed from purple to red.
Ernesto Cruz
Ernesto was a Federales cop who investigated the largest drug cartel in Mexico. On his birthday, just as he was about to crack the case open, he was killed in a spectacular assassination ordered by the very same drug cartel that he was about to bust. His son, Ramiro, witnessed his death.
Character Difference: In Total Overdose, he has another son, Tommy Cruz. He also dies in a different manner, being pushed from a plane, after overdosing, instead of being killed by a combine harvester.
Marco
Marco is the Cruz family's black sheep. He is Ram's uncle and his network of less than savory contacts in the Los Toros underworld makes Marco a goldmine of information. Marco is basically a coward and he finds all kinds of excuses for staying out of harms way leaving Ram to face the bad guys alone.
Character Differences: In Total Overdose he owned a junkyard in Los Toros, he also was not Ramiro's uncle.
Mama Virgillo
As the matron of the Virgillo family Mama Virgillo is a scary creature. She has lived all her life in the dusty marijuana farm outside of Los Toros and has inhaled too many fertilizer fumes for her own good and therefore stands 3 meters tall today. Equipped with two canes, dynamite sticks, meat cleavers and a stinking cigar she is trying her best to stop Ram from eradicating her family and demolishing her farm.
Character Difference: None, she is not mentioned in Total Overdose.
Cesar Morales
Cesar Morales is the undisputed king of the Los Toros underworld. He runs the shady businesses of Los Toros with a firm bloody hand and his mischief is starting to spread into legitimate businesses that he uses for trafficking drugs into the US. His latest megalomaniac idea is to run for president of the local government.
Character Difference: In Total Overdose he is not so closely tied into the death of Ram's father, he is also confronted in a different manner. In Chili Con Carnage, he is fought in his bullring, after making you face a living bull, and has a henchman, named Mini Morales, who is dressed as a bull. He and Mini Morales charge you in the bull ring, after you defeat his bull. In [Total Overdose]], he is fought in his office, and uses a gun instead of charging you.
Elvez Gonzales
Elvez is the puppet master, the head honcho, the mastermind behind the biggest drug cartel in Mexico. When the federale Ernesto Cruz, Ram's father, gets a little too close for comfort he puts out a contract for the death of Ernesto through his partner in crime Cesar Morales.
Character Difference: In Total Overdose he owns a car dealership, and is also dressed differently in your confrontation with him. Unlike in Total Overdose, he escapes his mansion and is not killed there. Another difference is he is more closely tied in with Cesar Morales in Chili Con Carnage than he is in Total Overdose. In Chili Con Carnage, he uses a heavily armored tank to try to kill Ram.
[edit] Weapons
Light handgun. Standard pea shooter; unlimited ammo.
Heavy Handgun
Greatest handgun ever made. More than enough to deal with anything that moves.
Sawed-Off Shotgun
Short range but great effect. Anything that gets in front of this puppy gets a good peppering.
Sweet semi-automatic pump-action goodness.
Good all-round rifle, with a longer range than the handgun. Feel like John Wayne yet?
Hunting Rifle
Your long-distance pal. Great for popping heads at a distance.
Don't expect precision shooting. It's strictly spray and pray!
Heavy Submachine Gun
Good all-rounder. Moderate precision, moderate damage and relatively light.
Fully automatic precision shooting. The grail of guns.
Modern Assault Rifle
When you absolutely, positively have to take down everyone in the room.
Pop goes the weasel... and splat goes your target. Precision bombing at it's best.
When guns just aren't enough. This pipe deals destruction and entertainment at the same time.
Hand Grenade
Small nasty surprises in neat packaging. Pull the pin and watch the fireworks.
Standard TNT stick. Sssssss- BOOM!
Gun Turret
Aka. The SAW, this mounted 30.lb hunk of metal will make short work of anybody who crosses in front of it.
[edit] Loco moves
Loco moves are an assorted selection of special moves that Ram can pull off. You may only have one of these at a time. The higher an attack combo chain, the more loco moves dropped.
Four Head Shots, four instant kills. This weapon is not capable of scroing bullseye shots as it automatically aims for the heads. Not much more to say.
Ram jumps up in slow-motion twisting around holding twin submachine guns absolutely obliterating everything in the vicinity.
El Toro
Ram turns into a raging bull allowing him to sprint forward, buttin' everyone in his path to death.
El Mariachi
Two guitar cases packed with machine guns spewing red hot lead in a near endless stream. The bullets cut through everything and result in mucho mayhem and grande explosions. This is an obvious reference to the Mariachi Trilogy.
Summon Gatling Gunzalez to help you. Gunzalez is armed with two Gatling Guns and is very capable of unleashing devastating firepower on the enemy. In Total Overdose, Instead of Gatling Gunzalez, this Loco move summons Sombrero of Death.
Throw this at the enemies and they flock around it reverting back to childhood eager to see the surprise inside. In this case it's a nasty one.
El Gimpo
Unleash the mad Mexican wrestler on an unsuspecting audience. He will run around screaming and yelling profanities while bashing every person and destructible object he finds along the way. (In Total Overdose he is known as the Mad Wrestler.
[edit] Pickups
Rewind
This is by far the most useful pickup in the game. When used, It can turn back time by a few seconds. It's main purpose is for use when you have died, but you may can also use it whenever you see fit. If you die and are out of these, it is game over and you must restart your current level.
Combo Extender
This pickup adds a blue bar to your combo bar that slowly moves upwards. When it reaches the top, your normal combo begins to decrease again. Useful for extending combos to rack up more points.
God Mode
This is another highly useful pickup. When picked up, it adds a blue bar to your health meter that decreases the same way that your health does. As long as this is activated, you are invulnurable. It is good for 10 seconds.
Bonus Points
These pickups come in two varieties: 100 and 200 and points. No matter how many points, always grab these when you see them.
Overdrive
When you strike up a combo-chain of 15 and over, your enemies will drop one of these powerups. They will increase your fire power to double strength, and also give you a dual of any weapon in your inventory. (Discluding the grenade launcher, rocket launcher, and explosives.) These only last as long as you continue your combo chain.
Health
These pickups restore your health. The smaller pickups restore partial health, the large pickups, full health.
[edit] Fiesta Mode Event Pickups
Camera Twist
This pickup causes the camera to turn upside down, making it difficult for opponents to play.
Quake
This pickup causes an earthquake when used, that makes it impossible for opponents to stand up or shoot straight.
Combo Steal
This pickup steals one combo-multiplier point from each opponent's combos.
Combo Stop
This pickup stops all combos, and causes them to cash in immediately.
Confetti
The confetti pickup causes all enemies on the opponent's screen turn to confetti, making it difficult for them to score points.
Weapon Steal
This steals all of the opponent's weapons except the small handgun.
[edit] Vehicles
These are the only vehicles in the game, since there is no longer a free roam option:
This is the most common of the driveable vehicles found in the game. It is mostly found in the farm levels.
This is Marco's nicest vehicle, and is purple with flames. It is not driveable, and is only seen in cinematics.
Usually seen around industrial areas. This is one of the few vehicles Ram can commandeer. This is the only vehicle to have a challenge based completely around it.
In almost completely dedicated True Lies style, Ram gets stuck on the missle, which came from Gonzales's fighterjet. It gets him to Gonzales' mansion and is only seen in cinematics.
Pickup Truck
Another standard vehicle seen most anywhere reasonable. This is just the standard old pickup truck, and another one of the few vehicles driveable by Ram.
Marco's Helicopter
Another of Marco's vehicles, It is a vital part of the Los Toros rooftop missions as Ramiro hangs from it whilst shooting, several times in this mission. Marco also uses it to take Ram to the jungle. It's design is based on a Bell 47 "bubble" helicopter.
Only seen near Gonzales's mansion. It is more of a prop than anything.
Gonzales's Tank
The tank Gonzales attempts to kill Ram with in the jungle levels. It is heavily armored, and can take many shots from a bazooka. It has a flamethrower, personal rocket launcher and many heavy machine guns installed into it. It has a slightly futuristic look to it.
Just a pickup with a mounted SAW in the back. Ram gets to use one of these more than once.
The same as the gun truck with camouflage paint instead.
An Apache helicopter. Chases you on more than one occasion
Gonzales's Fighter Jet
Gonzales' first scheme to try to get rid of you, which didn't quite work out for him, but left you stuck on one of the jet's missles. Probably modelled after a F-16 Fighting Falcon.
A normal Pickup with a bomb in the back. You have to get it on a cargo ship in an earlier mission.
A ship that Ram thought Cesar Morales was on, which is why he tried sinking it. The bomb detonated too soon, so Ram had to escape from it before it sank.
Combine Harvester
Only seen in the opening cinematic. It is what killed Ramiro's father.
[edit] Soundtrack
- Karmara
- Step Off
- El Mundo
- Cerdo
- Molotov Cocktail Party
- Que No Te Hagas Bobo Jacobo
- Matate Tete
- No Manches Mi Vida
- Apocalypshit
- Humanos Mexicanos
- Comprendes Mendes
- Cheve
Delinquent Habit
- Beijing
- Downtown
- Freedom Band
- House Of The Rising Drum
- I Can't Forget It
- Merry Go Round
- Return Of The Tres
- Sick Syde Drop
- Station Thirteen
- This Is L.A
- Hey Tell 'Em
Other Music:
- La Cucaracha
- Duelo De Pistolas
- Mexican Nights
- Rio Grande
- El Ray
