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| {{Italic title|''LEGO Rock Raiders'' (PlayStation video game)}} | | {{Infobox video game |
| '''''LEGO Rock Raiders''''' is a 1999 [[Wikipedia:Action game|action]] and [[Wikipedia:Strategy video game|strategy game]] developed by [[Data Design Interactive]] and published by [[LEGO Media International]] for [[Wikipedia:PlayStation (console)|PlayStation]]. The game is based on and was developed alongside the LEGO theme [[LEGO Rock Raiders|of the same name]]. Like the Windows version of [[LEGO Rock Raiders (video game)|''LEGO Rock Raiders'']], it features a team of space explorers mining for energy crystals on a hostile alien planet. Rather than managing a team of Rock Raiders, the player controls one character, travelling through levels using their chosen character's skills and any vehicles they find.
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| | | caption = European front cover |
| | | developer = [[Data Design Interactive]] |
| | | publisher = [[LEGO Media International]] |
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| | | platforms = [[Wikipedia:PlayStation (console)|PlayStation]] |
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| | | modes = [[Wikipedia:Single-player video game|Single-player]], [[Wikipedia:Multiplayer video game|multiplayer]] |
| | | director = |
| | | producer = {{Unbulleted list|Tomas Gillo|David Upchurch}} |
| | | designer = |
| | | programmer = {{Unbulleted list|Tony Stoddart|Steve Deacon}} |
| | | artist = {{Unbulleted list|Rob Dorney|Dave Garbett (animation)}} |
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| Initially conceived as a strategy game akin to its Windows counterpart, the PlayStation version of ''Rock Raiders'' eventually became more ''[[Wikipedia:Blast Corps|Blast Corps]]''-esque after a period of troubled development, releasing in Europe in late 1999 alongside the Windows version. The North American release of the game went through a further period of development, receiving many adjustments and a new set of levels by GameWorld 7, before eventually releasing in mid-2000.
| | '''''LEGO Rock Raiders''''' is a 1999 video game. |
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| == Gameplay == | | == Gameplay == |
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| Characters
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| * [[Docs]]
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| * [[Sparks]]
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| * [[Axle]]
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| * [[Jet]]
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| * [[Bandit]]
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| Vehicles
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| * [[Chrome Crusher]]
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| * [[Hover Scout]]
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| * [[Large Mobile Laser Cutter]]
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| * [[Loader Dozer]]
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| * [[Rapid Rider]]
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| * [[Small Digger]]
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| * [[Small Mobile Laser Cutter]]
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| * [[Tunnel Scout]]
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| * [[Tunnel Transport]]
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| Alien lifeforms
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| * [[Spider]]
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| * [[Scorpion]]
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| * [[Slimy Slug]]
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| * [[Rock Monster]]
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| * [[Rock Whale]]
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| === Missions ===
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| Missions are divided into different screens (or "levels"), with each screen having five open missions and one locked "boss" mission. Completing missions will give the player a bronze, silver, or gold medal, depending on how many objectives they completed. When the player has earned enough points (a minimum of five bronze, four silver, or three gold medals) the boss mission opens, which will unlock the next screen when completed.
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| One-player mode has eighteen missions divided between three screens. The missions are completely different between the European and North American versions. The European version also has three bonus missions, each one unlocked by getting gold medals in all missions in one of the three previous screens. The European missions were designed by Data Design Interactive<ref name="credits levels Eur"/> and David Upchurch,<ref name="Upchurch LRR"/> while the North American missions were designed by [[Gameworld 7]].<ref name="credits levels US"/>
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| Two-player mode in the European version also has eighteen missions, five original ones and thirteen modified one-player missions. The North American version only has one level of six original missions. Boss missions start off unlocked in two-player mode.
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| In total, the two versions of the game have fifty unique missions between them, and sixty-three total missions, listed below:
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| ! colspan=2 | Europe (PAL)
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| ! colspan=2 | North America (NTSC-U/C)
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| ! Level
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| ! One-player
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| ! Two-player
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| ! One-player
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| ! 1
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| * [[Easy Pickings]]
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| * [[Water Ways]]
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| * [[Rescue Mission]]
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| * [[Ore-some!]]
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| * [[Blown Away]]
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| * [[Crystal Crazy]] (boss)
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| * [[Easy Pickings]]
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| * [[Air Racing]]
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| * [[Team work!]]
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| * [[Lava Jumps]]
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| * [[Rescue Mission]]
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| * [[Whale World]]
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| * [[Jet's Mission]]
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| * [[Axle's Mission]]
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| * [[Docs' Mission]]
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| * [[Bandit's Mission]]
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| * [[Sparks' Mission]]
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| * [[Trapped]] (boss)
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| * [[There and Back Again]]
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| * [[Departure]]
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| * [[Web of Fire]]
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| * [[Building Bridges]]
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| * [[Crystal Isles]]
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| * [[Heavy Weights]]
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| ! 2
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| * [[Hot Scoop!]]
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| * [[High Flyer]]
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| * [[Slug Lake]]
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| * [[Into The Spiders' Nest]]
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| * [[Rapid Rush]]
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| * [[Trapped!]] (boss)
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| * [[Blown Away]]
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| * [[Into The Spiders' Nest]]
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| * [[Crystal Crazy]]
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| * [[High Flyer]]
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| * [[Water Ways]]
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| * [[Trapped!]]
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| * [[Supply Base]]
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| * [[River Run]]
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| * [[Thawed Out]]
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| * [[Web Space]]
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| * [[Move On Up]]
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| * [[Hot Rocks]] (boss)
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| ! 3
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| * [[Express Delivery]]
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| * [[Dozer Daze]]
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| * [[Smoke On The Water]]
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| * [[Ring Of Fire]]
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| * [[The Maze]]
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| * [[The Last Stand]] (boss)
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| * [[Formula 20,000]]
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| * [[Hot Scoop!]]
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| * [[Hop To It!]]
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| * [[Ring Of Fire]]
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| * [[Ore-some!]]
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| * [[The Last Stand]]
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| * [[Fire Canyon]]
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| * [[Fire Down Below]]
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| * [[The Lair of the Rockwhale]]
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| * [[Trouble Down the Mine]]
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| * [[Scarce Resources]]
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| * [[Last Man Out]] (boss)
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| ! 4
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| * [[Transport Crisis]]
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| * [[Whale Song]]
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| * [[Hop To It!]]
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| == Development == | | == Development == |
| In early 1999, six months before the PlayStation version of ''LEGO Rock Raiders'' was supposed to be submitted to Sony, the head of LEGO Media International{{efn|Mark Livingstone?}} decided that a real-time strategy game would not sell on the PlayStation.{{efn|Hypothesised by Upchurch to be due to poor sales of [[Wikipedia:Command & Conquer (1995 video game)|''Command & Conquer'']] on PlayStation.}} Data Design was ordered to change the game to be an [[Wikipedia:Action game|action game]]. As senior producer Tomas Gillo{{efn|Only listed as "the original Producer" by Upchurch; inferred from the game's credits, which lists Gillo as Senior Producer.}} did not have time to rework the PlayStation game while finishing the Windows version, David Upchurch was made the producer for the PlayStation version in March 1999.<ref name="Upchurch LRR"/>
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| |quote = ...every night I’d retire to my hotel room, exhausted, thinking to myself “That was a good day, we made good progress… but the game’s still going to crap.” All in all, it was a depressing and demoralising experience that soured my attitude towards working at LEGO Media.
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| |author = David Upchurch
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| |source = dupchurch.com<ref name="Upchurch LRR"/>
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| After many strategy-focussed elements were removed from the PlayStation game, the developers were left with a 3D rendering engine that could render and deform terrain, some LEGO vehicle models, and small minifigure [[Wikipedia:Sprite (computer graphics)|sprites]]. Upchurch enjoyed controlling the vehicles and suggested making the game play like a hybrid between [[Wikipedia:Gauntlet (1985 video game)|''Gauntlet'']] and [[Wikipedia:Blast Corps|''Blast Corps'']], where the player could complete missions either on-foot or in vehicles, and could construct vehicles and decide how to best use them to traverse caverns.<ref name="Upchurch LRR"/>
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| As the game's submission date approached, Upchurch spent nearly two months living in Birmingham while he worked on it with Data Design Interactive, playtesting and designing levels for it. After finishing work on ''LEGO Rock Raiders'' in August 1999, Upchurch left LEGO Media, going on to launch [[Wikipedia:PlayStation World|''PlayStation World'']] magazine for Computec Media in 2000. He later cited his negative experience producing this game as a major reason for leaving.<ref name="Upchurch LRR"/><ref name="Upchurch PSW"/>
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| == Release ==
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| == Reception == | | == Reception == |
| The game received mixed reviews.
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| == Notes ==
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| == References == | | == References == |
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| <ref name="credits levels Eur">[[Data Design Interactive]] (November 1999). ''LEGO Rock Raiders'' (PlayStation, PAL). [[LEGO Media International]]. Credits. "LEVEL DESIGNERS — David Allen – Scott Campbell – Scott Newby – Aron Phelan".</ref>
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| <ref name="credits levels US">[[Data Design Interactive]] (17 August 2000). ''LEGO Rock Raiders'' (PlayStation, NTSC-U/C). [[LEGO Media International]]. Credits. "LEVEL DESIGN — Gameworld Seven Ltd".</ref>
| | == External links == |
| | * [[Wikipedia:Lego Rock Raiders (video game)|''Lego Rock Raiders'']] at [[Wikipedia:Wikipedia|Wikipedia]] |
| | * [https://www.mobygames.com/game/191389/lego-rock-raiders/ ''LEGO Rock Raiders'' (1999 on PlayStation)] at [[Wikipedia:MobyGames|MobyGames]] |
| | ** [https://www.mobygames.com/game/195892/lego-rock-raiders/ ''LEGO Rock Raiders'' (2000 on PlayStation)] at MobyGames |
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| <ref name="Upchurch LRR">Upchurch, David (2012). [https://web.archive.org/web/20190118171620/dupchurch.com/?portfolio=lego-rock-raiders-ps1 "LEGO Rock Raiders (PS1)"]. ''dupchurch.com''. Archived from the original on 18 January 2019.</ref>
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| <ref name="Upchurch PSW">Upchurch, David (2012). [https://web.archive.org/web/20180821015608/http://dupchurch.com/?portfolio=psw-playstation-world "PSW: Playstation World"]. ''dupchurch.com''. Archived from the original on 21 August 2018.</ref>
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| == External Links ==
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| * [[Wikipedia:Lego Rock Raiders (video game)|''Lego Rock Raiders'']] at [[Wikipedia:Wikipedia|Wikipedia]]
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| * [https://www.mobygames.com/game/2993/lego-rock-raiders ''LEGO Rock Raiders'' for Windows] at [[Wikipedia:MobyGames|MobyGames]]
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| [[Category:LEGO video games|Rock Raiders (PlayStation video game)]] | | [[Category:1999 video games]] |
| [[Category:LEGO Rock Raiders]] | | [[Category:Data Design Interactive games]] |
| | [[Category:LEGO Media International games|Rock Raiders (PlayStation)]] |
