Tyco R/C: Assault With a Battery is a
PlayStation game that shipped in September 2000. The game was based on the
Tyco Toys R/C brand
radio-controlled cars and features, and hence has titles from real R/C cars by Tyco. The game was developed by
Lucky Chicken Games and published by
Mattel Interactive. It received some acclaim from online game review sources,[2] but was lost at retail during Mattel's exit of the Video Games business as a result of their failed acquisition of
The Learning Company.
The name of the game is a play on words of two types of crimes,
Assault and
Battery.
The game received average reviews according to the
review aggregation website
GameRankings.[3] Emmett Schkloven of NextGen said that the game was "Neither a monster nor a must-have, but a quick and entertaining diversion nonetheless."[10] In Japan, where the game was ported and published by Syscom as part of the World Greatest Hits Series on June 13, 2002, Famitsu gave it a score of 23 out of 40.[7]
Notes
^In GameFan's viewpoint of the game, three critics gave it each a score of 60, 72, and 71.