GAMbIT Magazine Issue #26 April 2017 | Page 42

There was never a volume 2. It's always a bad idea to label your game the first of a series, especially when you have no experience in making or marketing video games. Motown Records is a historic record label that helped change the face of music forever. Motown Games was nothing more than some cheap was to milk gamers from their hard-earned money. They only ever released two games (the other could have made this list if we didn't leave out the movie rule) and both are considered some of the worst the Super Nintendo ever got. RapJam: Volume One is quite the mystery. Not because there is an interesting story to dig through, (there isn't) but because the game makes no sense whatsoever. On paper the game should have been an easy win. Clone the gameplay of NBA Jam in a street-ball setting and insert a bunch of rappers that were pretty big at the time. It really does seem like a slam dunk of a video game, but the company simply had no idea how to create a video game. The biggest offender in RapJam: Volume One is that the game has no music while you play. It's almost painful to think that a famed record company, using world-famous rappers forgot to incorporate music into their video game. It's amazing that the only sounds in the game are the bouncing of the ball and the occasional clapping of the crowd. If you can't sleep playing a game of RapJam: Volume One is better than any sleeping medicine. The game was also developed by Mandingo Entertainment, so there's that.