Finished Robo Cop Rogue City. Close to 20 hours. 6/10 and a fairly easy platnimum to boot.
There is some really good ideas in this one, it does a little more than just a simple FPS with Robocop and in a genre that is very difficult to keep interesting if it doesn't have stellar shooting. It's pretty fun and just the perfect length even doing all the side content and the story is more than serviceable with some nice elements of choice. The side stuff blends into the main stuff so neatly and fluidly it feels less lile side content and more of the game itself.
My biggest complaint aside from the odd fame breaking bug, is that it feels a little too much like a condensed Fallout 4, although it very much keeps the Robo Vop vibe despite this. Frankly I'm very impressed with it and we need more games like this that try interesting things. I would rate this a very solid, high 7/10 if it had a bigger budget for small stuff like facial animations and better VA and if it's performance and image quality was better on PS5 but right now it just meets a 6/10 because of issues like this and some game breaking bugs that requited reseting the game, but they were few. I hope the the devs stuck with it and manage a bigger Budget for another robovop game to tighten up the experience and add the TLC and polish. Still, it's very cool what they done here and a perfect game to break up my time in the really long FF7 Rebirth. I would say, it"@ less FPS and more of a Robo Cop simulator, the modular parts of the game add up to something more than it looks on the surface, just a pity it couldn't have slightly better production value. The devs made 59 million in two months so I can only assume that there is a sequel coming and one with a bigger budget.
I'd recommend it to even non Robo Cop fans but only on a half price sale.
Last edited by LegitHyperbole - on 01 January 2025
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