RoboCop: Rogue City

DB
12 minutes ago
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Come for the nostalgia, stay for the criminals getting absolutely obliterated.

RoboCop standing ready to serve the law and protect the innocent - from RoboCop: Rogue City

Here's what I've been watching and playing over the last seven days...

MOVIES

Still my favourite Rian Johnson movie, still my joint favourite of 2019, and still a brilliant, brilliant movie with a fantastic cast doing incredible work, especially Ana de Armas as Marta and Daniel Craig as Benoit Blanc.

Glass Onion

A more comedic entry to be sure, but continues to be a worthy follow-up to the original, although I can understand if the tone didn't quite work for some people.

Wake Up Dead Man

I think the biggest issue that I brought up in my original review remains the reason why this is still my least favourite of the series, although it is still enjoyable - too little Benoit Blanc.

GAMES

RoboCop: Rogue City

Game summary: Attempt to bring justice to the dangerous, crime-ridden streets of Old Detroit. (IMDb)

I quite often get motion sickness when playing first-person shooters, but I think RoboCop: Rogue City's slower pace avoided that problem this time and allowed me to enjoy a very good game.

And if you've seen the movies, you'll know that a slower pace fits RoboCop perfectly with his tendency to walk everywhere - at least here you can walk or jog, and even unlock a forward charge later on.

Adding in RoboCop's durability (also upgradeable) and firepower (VERY upgradeable), and Rogue City provides one hell of a faithful RoboCop experience.

I do just want to note how fucking satisfying it is using RoboCop's gun from the films - you don't really need any other weapons, especially once you find the right upgrades turning it into an infinite ammo superweapon.

The sound design is also top-notch and a perfect match for the films; you'll only hear the full theme a handful of times, but the developers picked their moments well.

As far as Rogue City looks, it's one of the most Jekyll-and-Hyde games ever, with RoboCop, the environments and the lighting look genuinely incredible most of the time - just a shame about some of the human character models which look like they're more than a decade out of date.

The other 'weak' point is the story, which does try and keep things fresh with multiple main antagonists, but I felt it was a little longer than it needed to be, as were some of the missions in the game, so it might come across as a little monotonous or repetitive if you play it for long stretches at a time.

Despite these minor weaknesses, I really did enjoy my time with Rogue City thanks mainly to how authentic a RoboCop experience it felt and if you like RoboCop, you'll almost certainly enjoy this too.

RoboCop: Rogue City isn't just a good RoboCop game, but a very good game in its own right and the second-best entry in the series behind the original movie. [8/10]