Chili Con Carnage
Encyclopedia
Chili Con Carnage is an action/adventure third-person shooter
video game. It plays very closely to the terms of Max Payne
, but is not as themed toward Grand Theft Auto
as its predecessor Total Overdose was. Chili Con Carnage is developed by Deadline Games
and published by Sci Entertainment in Europe and by Eidos
in North America. Total Overdose was released September 27, 2005. Chili Con Carnage is not actually a true sequel to Total Overdose, as it goes by a different title and has a story that has nothing to do with Total Overdose. Many reviews of the game classify it as a remake of Total Overdose for the PlayStation Portable
.
ed (along with some kittens, which were Ram's birthday present to his father) in a freak combine harvester
accident, wants revenge on the culprits responsible. On his quest for redemption, the player will be taking down sinister drug lords, cutting through corrupt banditos, and battling it out with femme fatales, crooked mercenaries, and even ritualistic zombies. In between the missions the player can choose to play mini games, in each of which the player is dropped right into the middle of a situation and must complete a number of moves (Fly on the Wall, Burrito Blast, Etc.) with a limited number of enemies, or beat a set score in a limited amount of time. There is no free roaming option in Chili Con Carnage.
The main protagonist in the game, the player will be playing as him throughout the entire game. Ram is an athletic man with street smarts and a tendency for extreme sports and moves. He witnesses the assassination of his father when he goes to give him his birthday present. Fueled by the need for revenge he embarks on a journey to bring the perpetrators the ultimate justice. His nickname, given to him by his enemies in the game, is "El Gringo
Loco".
Character Difference:
In Total Overdose, He was more reckless, and was an insane felon, who was released from prison only to help the DEA. He could carjack and kill innocent civilians, in the city. He is more rightfully motivated in Chili Con Carnage, only wanting to avenge his father's death. He is not noted to have been a felon in Chili Con Carnage's storyline. His shirt color was also changed from purple to red.
DJ Gunslinger (Dennis Joshua Cruz)
in Total Overdose,he was Ramiro's personal trainer who trained him and his father but he was killed by a dude of the dead inside the ancient Mayan ruins while he was searching the most powerful gun in the world
Ernesto Cruz
Ernesto was a Federales cop who investigated the largest drug cartel in Mexico. On his birthday, just as he was about to crack the case open, he was killed in a spectacular assassination ordered by the very same drug cartel that he was about to bust. His son, Ramiro, witnessed his death.
Character Difference:
In Total Overdose, he has another son, Tommy Cruz. He works for the DEA and after being pushed from a plane, he calls his twin brother Ramiro to complete his mission, instead of being killed by a combine harvester.
Marco
Marco is the Cruz family's black sheep
. He is Ram's uncle and his network of less than savory contacts in the Los Toros underworld makes Marco a goldmine of information.
Marco is basically a coward and he finds all kinds of excuses for staying out of harms way leaving Ram to face the bad guys alone.
Character Differences:
In Total Overdose he owned a junkyard in Los Toros, he also was not Ramiro's uncle.
Mama Virgillo
As the matron of the Virgillo family, Mama Virgillo is a scary creature. She has lived all her life in the dusty marijuana
farm outside of Los Toros and has inhaled too many fertilizer fumes for her own good and therefore stands 3 meters tall today.
Equipped with two canes, dynamite sticks, meat cleavers and a stinking cigar
, she tried her best to stop Ram from eradicating her family and demolishing her farm.
Character Difference:
In total overdose, she's not this big and can be killed with one shot and uses a knife.
César Moralés
Cesar Morales is the undisputed king of the Los Toros underworld. He runs the shady businesses of Los Toros with a firm bloody hand and his mischief is starting to spread into legitimate businesses that he uses for trafficking drugs into the United States. His latest megalomaniac idea is to run for president of the local government.
Character Difference:
In Total Overdose he is not so closely tied into the death of Ram's father, he is also confronted in a different manner.
In Chili Con Carnage, he is fought in his bullring, after making you face a living bull, and has a henchman, named Mini Morales, who is dressed as a bull. He and Mini Morales charge you in the bull ring, after you defeat his bull. In Total Overdose, he is fought in his office, and uses a gun instead of charging you.
Elvez Gonzales
Elvez is a puppet master and the mastermind behind the biggest drug cartel in Mexico. When the Federale Ernesto Cruz, Ram's father, gets a little too close for comfort, he puts out a contract for the death of Ernesto through his partner in crime Cesar Morales.
Character Difference:
In Total Overdose he owns a car dealership, and is also dressed differently in your confrontation with him. Unlike in Total Overdose, he escapes his mansion and is not killed there. Another difference is he is more closely tied in with Cesar Morales in Chili Con Carnage than he is in Total Overdose. In Chili Con Carnage, he uses a heavily armored tank to try to kill Ram.
Gatling Gun
zalez
Summon Gatling Gun
zalez to help you. Gun
zalez is armed with two Gatling Gun
s and is very capable of unleashing devastating firepower on the enemy. In Total Overdose, Instead of Gatling Gun
zalez, this Loco
move summons Sombrero
of Death
.
Piñata
Throw this at the enemies and they flock around it reverting back to childhood eager to see the surprise inside. In this case it's a nasty one.
El Gimpo
Unleash the mad Mexican
wrestler on an unsuspecting audience. He will run around screaming and yelling profanities while bashing every person and destructible object he finds along the way
(In Total Overdose he is known as the Mad Wrestler).
This is by far the most useful pickup in the game. When used, It can turn back time by a few seconds. Its main purpose is for when you have died, but you can also use it whenever you need to during gameplay. If you die and are out of these, it is game over, and you are required to restart the level.
Combo Extender
This pickup adds a blue bar to your combo bar that slowly moves upwards. When it reaches the top, your normal combo begins to decrease again. Useful for extending combos to rack up more points.
God Mode
This is another highly useful pickup. When picked up, it adds a blue bar to your health meter that decreases the same way that your health does. As long as this is activated, you are invulnerable. It runs for 10 seconds
Bonus Points
These pickups come in two varieties: 100 and 200 and points. You can grab these to increase your combo chain.
Overdrive
When you strike up a combo-chain of 15 and over, your enemies will drop one of these power ups. They will increase your fire power to double strength, and also give you a dual of any weapon in your inventory (Excluding the Rocket Launcher and Explosives). These only last as long as you continue your combo chain.
Health
These pickups restore your health. The smaller pickups restore partial health, the large pickups, full health.
This pickup causes the camera to turn upside down, making it difficult for opponents to play.
Quake
This pickup causes an earthquake when used, that makes it impossible for opponents to stand up or shoot straight.
Combo Steal
This pickup steals one combo-multiplier point from each opponent's combos.
Combo Stop
This pickup stops all combos, and causes them to cash in immediately.
Confetti
The confetti pickup causes all enemies on the opponent's screen turn to confetti, making it difficult for them to score points.
Weapon Steal
This steals all of the opponent's weapons except the small handgun.
Third-person shooter
Third-person shooter is a genre of 3D action games in which the player character is visible on-screen, and the gameplay consists primarily of shooting.-Definition:...
video game. It plays very closely to the terms of Max Payne
Max Payne
Max Payne is a BAFTA Award–winning third-person shooter video game developed by Finnish developers Remedy Entertainment and published by Gathering of Developers in July 2001 for Microsoft Windows. Ports created later in the year for the PlayStation 2, Xbox and the GameBoy Advance were published by...
, but is not as themed toward Grand Theft Auto
Grand Theft Auto (video game)
Grand Theft Auto is a 1997 action-adventure video game created by British games developer DMA Design and published by BMG Interactive. The game allows the player to take on the role of a criminal who can roam freely around a big city. Various missions are set for completion, such as bank...
as its predecessor Total Overdose was. Chili Con Carnage is developed by Deadline Games
Deadline Games
Deadline Games A/S was a video game developer based in Copenhagen, Denmark,, operating between 1996 and 2009. Its last published game was Watchmen: The End Is Nigh, based on the Watchmen.*Blackout*Globetrotter*Globetrotter 2...
and published by Sci Entertainment in Europe and by Eidos
Eidos Interactive
Eidos Interactive Ltd. is a British video game publisher and is a label of Square Enix Europe. As an independent company Eidos plc was headquartered in the Wimbledon Bridge House in Wimbledon, London Borough of Merton....
in North America. Total Overdose was released September 27, 2005. Chili Con Carnage is not actually a true sequel to Total Overdose, as it goes by a different title and has a story that has nothing to do with Total Overdose. Many reviews of the game classify it as a remake of Total Overdose for the PlayStation Portable
PlayStation Portable
The is a handheld game console manufactured and marketed by Sony Corporation Development of the console was announced during E3 2003, and it was unveiled on , 2004, at a Sony press conference before E3 2004...
.
Story
The player character is Ramiro "Ram" Cruz, an athletic wisecracker. Ramiro, after witnessing his father Ernesto being murderMurder
Murder is the unlawful killing, with malice aforethought, of another human being, and generally this state of mind distinguishes murder from other forms of unlawful homicide...
ed (along with some kittens, which were Ram's birthday present to his father) in a freak combine harvester
Combine harvester
The combine harvester, or simply combine, is a machine that harvests grain crops. The name derives from the fact that it combines three separate operations, reaping, threshing, and winnowing, into a single process. Among the crops harvested with a combine are wheat, oats, rye, barley, corn ,...
accident, wants revenge on the culprits responsible. On his quest for redemption, the player will be taking down sinister drug lords, cutting through corrupt banditos, and battling it out with femme fatales, crooked mercenaries, and even ritualistic zombies. In between the missions the player can choose to play mini games, in each of which the player is dropped right into the middle of a situation and must complete a number of moves (Fly on the Wall, Burrito Blast, Etc.) with a limited number of enemies, or beat a set score in a limited amount of time. There is no free roaming option in Chili Con Carnage.
Characters
Ramiro "Ram" CruzThe main protagonist in the game, the player will be playing as him throughout the entire game. Ram is an athletic man with street smarts and a tendency for extreme sports and moves. He witnesses the assassination of his father when he goes to give him his birthday present. Fueled by the need for revenge he embarks on a journey to bring the perpetrators the ultimate justice. His nickname, given to him by his enemies in the game, is "El Gringo
Gringo
Gringo is a slang Spanish and Portuguese word used in Spanish-speaking and Portuguese-speaking countries in Latin America, to denote foreigners, often from the United States. The term can be applied to someone who is actually a foreigner, or it can denote a strong association or assimilation into...
Loco".
Character Difference:
In Total Overdose, He was more reckless, and was an insane felon, who was released from prison only to help the DEA. He could carjack and kill innocent civilians, in the city. He is more rightfully motivated in Chili Con Carnage, only wanting to avenge his father's death. He is not noted to have been a felon in Chili Con Carnage's storyline. His shirt color was also changed from purple to red.
DJ Gunslinger (Dennis Joshua Cruz)
in Total Overdose,he was Ramiro's personal trainer who trained him and his father but he was killed by a dude of the dead inside the ancient Mayan ruins while he was searching the most powerful gun in the world
Ernesto Cruz
Ernesto was a Federales cop who investigated the largest drug cartel in Mexico. On his birthday, just as he was about to crack the case open, he was killed in a spectacular assassination ordered by the very same drug cartel that he was about to bust. His son, Ramiro, witnessed his death.
Character Difference:
In Total Overdose, he has another son, Tommy Cruz. He works for the DEA and after being pushed from a plane, he calls his twin brother Ramiro to complete his mission, instead of being killed by a combine harvester.
Marco
Marco is the Cruz family's black sheep
Black sheep
In the English language, black sheep is an idiom used to describe an odd or disreputable member of a group, especially within a family. The term has typically been given negative implications, implying waywardness...
. He is Ram's uncle and his network of less than savory contacts in the Los Toros underworld makes Marco a goldmine of information.
Marco is basically a coward and he finds all kinds of excuses for staying out of harms way leaving Ram to face the bad guys alone.
Character Differences:
In Total Overdose he owned a junkyard in Los Toros, he also was not Ramiro's uncle.
Mama Virgillo
As the matron of the Virgillo family, Mama Virgillo is a scary creature. She has lived all her life in the dusty marijuana
Cannabis (drug)
Cannabis, also known as marijuana among many other names, refers to any number of preparations of the Cannabis plant intended for use as a psychoactive drug or for medicinal purposes. The English term marijuana comes from the Mexican Spanish word marihuana...
farm outside of Los Toros and has inhaled too many fertilizer fumes for her own good and therefore stands 3 meters tall today.
Equipped with two canes, dynamite sticks, meat cleavers and a stinking cigar
Cigar
A cigar is a tightly-rolled bundle of dried and fermented tobacco that is ignited so that its smoke may be drawn into the mouth. Cigar tobacco is grown in significant quantities in Brazil, Cameroon, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Honduras, Indonesia, Mexico, Nicaragua, Philippines, and the Eastern...
, she tried her best to stop Ram from eradicating her family and demolishing her farm.
Character Difference:
In total overdose, she's not this big and can be killed with one shot and uses a knife.
César Moralés
Cesar Morales is the undisputed king of the Los Toros underworld. He runs the shady businesses of Los Toros with a firm bloody hand and his mischief is starting to spread into legitimate businesses that he uses for trafficking drugs into the United States. His latest megalomaniac idea is to run for president of the local government.
Character Difference:
In Total Overdose he is not so closely tied into the death of Ram's father, he is also confronted in a different manner.
In Chili Con Carnage, he is fought in his bullring, after making you face a living bull, and has a henchman, named Mini Morales, who is dressed as a bull. He and Mini Morales charge you in the bull ring, after you defeat his bull. In Total Overdose, he is fought in his office, and uses a gun instead of charging you.
Elvez Gonzales
Elvez is a puppet master and the mastermind behind the biggest drug cartel in Mexico. When the Federale Ernesto Cruz, Ram's father, gets a little too close for comfort, he puts out a contract for the death of Ernesto through his partner in crime Cesar Morales.
Character Difference:
In Total Overdose he owns a car dealership, and is also dressed differently in your confrontation with him. Unlike in Total Overdose, he escapes his mansion and is not killed there. Another difference is he is more closely tied in with Cesar Morales in Chili Con Carnage than he is in Total Overdose. In Chili Con Carnage, he uses a heavily armored tank to try to kill Ram.
Loco moves
Loco moves are an assorted selection of special moves that Ram can pull off. You may only have one of thesions. This is a reference to the Mariachi Trilogy.Gatling Gun
Gun
A gun is a muzzle or breech-loaded projectile-firing weapon. There are various definitions depending on the nation and branch of service. A "gun" may be distinguished from other firearms in being a crew-served weapon such as a howitzer or mortar, as opposed to a small arm like a rifle or pistol,...
zalez
Summon Gatling Gun
Gun
A gun is a muzzle or breech-loaded projectile-firing weapon. There are various definitions depending on the nation and branch of service. A "gun" may be distinguished from other firearms in being a crew-served weapon such as a howitzer or mortar, as opposed to a small arm like a rifle or pistol,...
zalez to help you. Gun
Gun
A gun is a muzzle or breech-loaded projectile-firing weapon. There are various definitions depending on the nation and branch of service. A "gun" may be distinguished from other firearms in being a crew-served weapon such as a howitzer or mortar, as opposed to a small arm like a rifle or pistol,...
zalez is armed with two Gatling Gun
Gatling gun
The Gatling gun is one of the best known early rapid-fire weapons and a forerunner of the modern machine gun. It is well known for its use by the Union forces during the American Civil War in the 1860s, which was the first time it was employed in combat...
s and is very capable of unleashing devastating firepower on the enemy. In Total Overdose, Instead of Gatling Gun
Gun
A gun is a muzzle or breech-loaded projectile-firing weapon. There are various definitions depending on the nation and branch of service. A "gun" may be distinguished from other firearms in being a crew-served weapon such as a howitzer or mortar, as opposed to a small arm like a rifle or pistol,...
zalez, this Loco
Loco
-Computers:* LocoRoco, a 2006 game for PlayStation Portable and PlayStation 3* LOCO-1, a near-lossless image compression algorithm used in JPEG* Loco Linux, Linux distribution* Loco team, a group of Linux and open source advocates...
move summons Sombrero
Sombrero
Sombrero in English refers to a type of wide-brimmed hat originating in Mexico. In Spanish, however, it is the generic word for "hat", which originates from "sombra", meaning "shade"....
of Death
Death
Death is the permanent termination of the biological functions that sustain a living organism. Phenomena which commonly bring about death include old age, predation, malnutrition, disease, and accidents or trauma resulting in terminal injury....
.
Piñata
Piñata
A piñata is a papier-mâché or other type of container that is decorated, filled with toys and or candy and then broken as part of a ceremony or celebration. Piñatas are most commonly associated with Mexico, but its origins are considered to be in China...
Throw this at the enemies and they flock around it reverting back to childhood eager to see the surprise inside. In this case it's a nasty one.
El Gimpo
Unleash the mad Mexican
Mexican people
Mexican people refers to all persons from Mexico, a multiethnic country in North America, and/or who identify with the Mexican cultural and/or national identity....
wrestler on an unsuspecting audience. He will run around screaming and yelling profanities while bashing every person and destructible object he finds along the way
(In Total Overdose he is known as the Mad Wrestler).
Pickups
RewindThis is by far the most useful pickup in the game. When used, It can turn back time by a few seconds. Its main purpose is for when you have died, but you can also use it whenever you need to during gameplay. If you die and are out of these, it is game over, and you are required to restart the level.
Combo Extender
This pickup adds a blue bar to your combo bar that slowly moves upwards. When it reaches the top, your normal combo begins to decrease again. Useful for extending combos to rack up more points.
God Mode
This is another highly useful pickup. When picked up, it adds a blue bar to your health meter that decreases the same way that your health does. As long as this is activated, you are invulnerable. It runs for 10 seconds
Bonus Points
These pickups come in two varieties: 100 and 200 and points. You can grab these to increase your combo chain.
Overdrive
When you strike up a combo-chain of 15 and over, your enemies will drop one of these power ups. They will increase your fire power to double strength, and also give you a dual of any weapon in your inventory (Excluding the Rocket Launcher and Explosives). These only last as long as you continue your combo chain.
Health
These pickups restore your health. The smaller pickups restore partial health, the large pickups, full health.
Fiesta Mode Event Pickups
Camera TwistThis pickup causes the camera to turn upside down, making it difficult for opponents to play.
Quake
This pickup causes an earthquake when used, that makes it impossible for opponents to stand up or shoot straight.
Combo Steal
This pickup steals one combo-multiplier point from each opponent's combos.
Combo Stop
This pickup stops all combos, and causes them to cash in immediately.
Confetti
The confetti pickup causes all enemies on the opponent's screen turn to confetti, making it difficult for them to score points.
Weapon Steal
This steals all of the opponent's weapons except the small handgun.