![]() ![]() One good shotgun blast is enough to kill the ape, but you can take a few shots here and there.Ī blood trail is the only indication of your health. As fragile as men are to your hulking physique, you can’t take too many shots either. Your rampaging rhythms supplement the game’s frantic nature. Each kill bangs a drum or crashes a symbol. Either way, stuff gets smashed, people get dead, monkey see, monkey kill.Īny prick that keeps an ape in their lavish penthouse apartment deserves to get theirs.Įach scenario is presented as a jazz album. I was unsure if it was supposed to be the same ape throughout the game, or if I was being presented with various scenarios of animal cruelty. ![]() In the game you control an ape who escapes and rampages through a laboratory, an apartment building, a military base, and a dockland. This time I’m the animal, and I’m taking more than finger tips from those who would dare to wrong me.Īpe Out describes and commands all at once. That sign, ‘NÃO ALIMENTE O MACACO’, was really warning against the possibility of vengeance, that monkey’s bite, that moment of primate primal revenge is digitised and re-enacted over and over and over in the video game Ape Out. Why was the monkey there in the first place? Caged up in the sweltering heat and taunted by a dumb kid with some honey-roasted peanuts, he had no choice but to channel the frustration of seeing thousands of kids waving a million peanuts at him. If there’s a lesson in this anecdote, it’s not the obvious one, reading signs and following rules is one thing, but there’s something else at play here as well. I did feed the monkey that day, and got a nasty shock because of it. At that time I could not read Portuguese, I still can’t read Portuguese, but if I could I would have read in big block letters: NÃO ALIMENTE O MACACO – ‘Don’t Feed the Monkey’. I was at a zoo in Portugal on a family holiday. ![]() When I was five years old, I was bitten by a monkey. ![]()
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