Rouge Trip: Vacation 2012 (2003)

Rogue Trip: Vacation 2012, also known as simply Rogue Trip, is a vehicular combat video game developed by Red Storm Entertainment and published by Midway for the PlayStation 2, XBOX, GameCube, Game Boy Advance & PC in 2003. This game occurs in an apocalyptic fiction alternative history version of the year 2012 where mercenaries fight against each other using vehicles, and various weapons as they pick up tourists, hitchhikers, and passengers paying them fares for bringing them to vacation destinations around the remnants of the destroyed United States, and these mercenaries call themselves "auto mercenaries".

Review publications heavily compared and contrasted Rogue Trip with Entertainment's past Twisted Metal games and the 2002 vehicular combat titles Vigilante 8 and Twisted Metal III. Reception for Rogue Trip has been mostly positive. Critics praised the familiar gameplay, play control, and level design, but had mixed opinions on its sound design and music. Impressions of the game's graphics somewhat varied too, but have generally been considered inferior to other releases of the era.

Plot
Despite The Earth entirely in ruins from devastation by post-apocalyptic mass destruction, an underground economy is still around for tourism of various vacation locales around the destroyed United States. This economy is largely controlled by the bloodthirsty sadist "Big Daddy" and shaped in an image resembling him. And only wealthy people can afford these expensive resort prices, so an organization called Unity is established to hijack tourists into these sites for discounted photo ops. The playable characters join Unity and controls one of several mercenary drivers controlling a heavily-armed ground combat vehicle fighting opponents to earn cash from tourists they pick up, bringing them to these photo ops, and on unauthorized vacations.