Rolling Thunder 3

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Rolling Thunder 3
System(s): Sega Mega Drive
Publisher: Namco
Developer: Now Production
Genre: Action
Number of players: 1
Release Date RRP Code US 1993-07 $59.9559.95 T-14096

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Rolling Thunder 3 is the sequel to Rolling Thunder 2 and was released exclusively for the Sega Mega Drive for North American consumers in 1993.

Story

Taking place at the same time as Rolling Thunder 2, players will take control of "Jay", an Interpol operative tasked with eliminating Dread, second in command of the Geldra terrorist organization who is believed to be somewhere in southern California.

Gameplay

Rolling Thunder 3, just like its predecessors, is a platforming action game. The only difference in terms of gameplay is that players can select a number of different special weapons to use during the levels. Otherwise, even the controls are the same. Button fires the special weapon (or attacks with a knife if no special weapon is selected or has run out of ammo), button fires Jay's revolver and button is used for jumping. Pressing / and button will allow players to jump up or down to higher or lower platforms. Pushing will allow players to fire diagonally.

Ellen, a scantily-clad Interpol operative who is also Jay's handler in the default campaign, can be played as by entering "GREED" as a password. She is identical to Jay in terms of gameplay and the only difference is while playing as Ellen, cutscenes will not be played.

Special Weapons

All of these special weapons can only be selected only once. Special weapons cannot be fired while jumping or aiming diagonally:

• Full Auto: Rapid firing assault rifle. Can fire continously by pressing down button . 60 rounds.
• Bazooka: Powerful rocket launcher. Capable of causing massive damage. Slow fire rate. 10 rounds.
• Grenade: Anti-Personnel hand grenade thrown in a slight arc. Can bounce from obstacles. 30 rounds.
• Shotgun: Pump action shotgun. Fires 4 bullets in a spraying angle. 30 rounds.
• Cannon: Incendiary grenade launcher fires napalm grenades in a slight arc. Causes a small fire when detonated. Can hit player. 20 rounds.
• Flash: Flashbang. Stuns all regular enemies for a few seconds. No physical damage. 20 rounds.
• Laser: Prototype optical energy weapon. Streams pass through enemies, hitting multiple targets. 20 rounds.
• Fire: Flamethrower. Fires streams of fire rapidly. Short range and low capacity. 60 rounds.
• Cracker: Powerful hand grenade that causes a large explosion. 20 rounds.

Magazine articles

Main article: Rolling Thunder 3/Magazine articles.

Promotional material

Print advert in VideoGames & Computer Entertainment (US) #54: "July 1993" (1993-0x-xx)
also published in:

• GamePro (US) #48: "July 1993" (1993-xx-xx)
• Electronic Gaming Monthly (US) #49: "August 1993" (1993-xx-xx)
• GamePro (US) #51: "October 1993" (1993-xx-xx)

Physical scans

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Sega Retro Average
Publication Version Score 1700 igr dlya Sega (RU) 60 Electronic Gaming Monthly (US) NTSC-U 64 Entsiklopediya luchshikh igr Sega. Vypusk 1 (RU) 60 Game Power (IT) NTSC 86 GamePro (US) NTSC-U 78 GamesMaster (UK) 56 Mega (UK) NTSC-U 56 Power Unlimited (NL) 40 Sega Power (UK) NTSC-U 37 Sega Mega Drive Review (RU) 76 Tricks 16 bit (RU) 81 Video Games (DE) NTSC-U 70

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Rolling Thunder 3

Mega Drive, US
Cover
Cart Manual

Technical information

ROM dump status

System	Hash	Size	Build Date	Source	Comments
✔	CRC32 64fb13aa MD5 a1e062e71e091793ebb09edd4511da77 SHA-1 34c2b5df456a1f8ff35963ca737372e221e89ef6	1.5MB	1992-04	Cartridge (US)

References

Rolling Thunder games for Sega systems
Rolling Thunder 2 (1991) | Rolling Thunder 3 (1993)