Why Rampage Is the Most Faithful Video-Game Adaptation Ever Made

This article originally appeared in Vulture. It's extremely easy to see Rampage, the latest blockbuster starring Dwayne "the Rock" Johnson, and have no idea that it's based on a video game. Rampage, which is about genetically enhanced animals turned Godzilla-sized monsters on a path of destruction, seems like boilerplate Hollywood action bolstered by Johnson -- a charismatic video-game hero made flesh -- to please crowds with an appetite for chaos. But Rampage, in the purity of how it sets out to do one thing (wreck stuff) is actually one of the most faithful video-game adaptations ever made, because the 1986 source material is built on the very same idea: wrecking stuff is stupid fun. Rampage came into existence at the very tail end of arcade games' boom years.