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Chili Con Carnage for PlayStation Portable
Chili Con Carnage for PlayStation Portable is an action shooter in which Ramiro Cruz sets out to avenge his father's murder. In the Mexican town of Los Toros, you take on Cesar Morales' cartel. You dive through the air while shooting, push off walls and chain together takedowns to increase your score. The nineteen story missions take you through seven different areas, from built-up streets to jungle. You play clearly defined assignments rather than travelling freely around an entire city.
Movement and timing determine how many points a fight earns. Slow-motion jumps and special Loco Moves keep a chain of attacks going, while explosions scatter groups of enemies. Higher scores earn awards that unlock extra characters and challenges, among other things. A completed mission therefore gives you a different objective when you return: build a longer combination and miss fewer opportunities. El Macho adds separate survival challenges alongside the story.
You play the campaign alone. Hangman caters for two to four players: pass around one PSP with one game and try to beat the previous score each turn. In Fiesta, two to four participants play simultaneously in their own arenas, sending enemies and disruptive effects to one another. Everyone needs a PSP with wireless networking and their own copy of the game. This local Ad Hoc contest is not a cooperative story campaign and does not use an internet connection.
Region and language
Our PlayStation Portable games are European editions and come with a Dutch or English box, unless stated otherwise. By default, you receive the version for the European market. We note it in the product details if the region is different or the box is in another language. In almost all cases, the game is playable at least in English, and often in the other five common European languages too.
You receive the physical UMD edition. You need a PSP with a UMD drive to play it; a PSP Go cannot play this disc.
Manual
Chili Con Carnage for PlayStation Portable includes the manual unless the product title states otherwise. If the booklet is missing, the title says “No Manual”. This lets you see before ordering whether the game comes with a manual.
The manuals included with our games usually contain at least English and often around six European languages. The exact languages vary by edition, so Dutch is not always included. The booklet explains the controls and the main rules. You can use it to check how to control the game, which actions are available and how its different features work.
The history of Chili Con Carnage
Deadline Games developed Chili Con Carnage, and Eidos released it for PlayStation Portable in 2007. The Danish studio had already made Total Overdose for PlayStation 2, Xbox and PC in 2005. For the handheld, the team reused characters, visual material and ideas from that game, but changed its structure. Director Søren Lund described the project as a new adaptation rather than a direct conversion of the earlier adventure.
The biggest change was removing free travel between assignments. Deadline wanted to focus on gunfights, acrobatics and improving scores. Its own Kapow engine provided the technical foundation. The team adapted the camera, controls and level sizes to the PSP, among other changes. The story was also rewritten, so the returning characters do not mean you simply replay the same events from Total Overdose.
This approach explains why Chili Con Carnage revolves so strongly around repetition and combinations. After release, Lund said some players mainly expected a longer story and were consequently less interested in improving their results. He also discussed the limitations of Fiesta, which required players to sit near one another with their own games. The result remained a separate PSP game that transformed Total Overdose's exaggerated movie action into short, score-focused assignments.
Similar games for PlayStation Portable
Gun Showdown for PlayStation Portable likewise lets you shoot your way through a violent story. Colton White, however, rides between Western settlements on horseback and can take on side assignments along the way. Chili Con Carnage stays closer to separate arenas and rewards acrobatic takedowns with higher scores. Both use slow-motion shooting, but Gun links it to a Western adventure, whereas Chili mainly asks you to keep an increasingly long chain of actions going.
Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories on PlayStation Portable combines crime missions with a city you can explore freely. Toni Cipriani steals vehicles and works for different employers. Ramiro receives much more tightly defined shooting assignments in Chili Con Carnage. Crime and the viewpoint behind the main character are common ground, but Liberty City's travel time, choice of vehicles and freedom give way to immediate combat and improving a mission score.
Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories for PlayStation Portable builds a crime story around Vic Vance, with vehicles, city exploration and businesses to take over. Chili Con Carnage also uses a criminal setting, but does not have you manage a business empire. Progress here centres on individual combat assignments and rewards for high scores. Vice City Stories gives you more activities between missions; Chili focuses on what you do during a single gunfight.
God of War: Chains of Olympus on PlayStation Portable, like Chili Con Carnage, rewards combining attacks against groups of enemies. Kratos uses chained weapons and magic instead of pistols and spectacular shooting jumps. His adventure interweaves combat with climbing and environmental puzzles in a mythological world. Chili centres on shorter shooting assignments and rankings, so replaying mainly involves moving more precisely and building a longer combination.
Ratchet & Clank: Size Matters for PlayStation Portable shares an interest in unusual weapons and an exaggerated sense of humour. Ratchet travels through a science-fiction story with platforming, gadgets and separate sections where Clank is playable. Chili Con Carnage sticks to Ramiro's shooting acrobatics and a mission's score. Size Matters switches more often between exploration and different tools; Chili mainly asks you to keep moving throughout the same fight.
