Kaiju Rampage - World of Monster Eye

I don’t play much at arcade centers these days, but a recent encounter led me to a particular shooter game by IGS. As a Taiwanese game developer, IGS certainly has come a long way, surviving the 2D era and transitioning into theatrical 3D games. Their products surprisingly boast impressive visuals, even if they sometimes fall short in other areas. The game I stumbled upon is Kaiju Rampage, also known as Monster Eye 3.

Kaiju Rampage is a rail shooter, reminiscent of Let’s Go Jungle with elements from Jurassic Park Arcade. Players face oversized mutant monsters that relentlessly hunt them down. The story is pure nonsense—a young couple is dragged into chaotic misadventures by a shady travel guide—but that’s not really the point. The game’s selling point is the action-thriller experience, not the narrative.

Like many of its peers, Kaiju Rampage is a coin guzzler: I needed 15–20 tries to see everything the game offers. Even so, it managed to spark my interest in the Monster Eye series, even if it doesn’t quite scratch the same itch as its rail shooter predecessors from the early 2000s.