I got quite the treat for you today. Coming November 2nd is possibly a surprise top 10 game of the year, a game that no one knew they wanted so badly. Allow me to present:
Robocop Rogue City
Become the legendary part man, part machine, all cop hero and deliver justice in Old Detroit.
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Rogue City is a open world Robocop FPS, created by AA studio Teyon responsible for Terminator Resistance, a Terminator FPS with a cultlike following. But Rogue City is their biggest release yet, and the one that caught everyone by surprise. They recently just dropped a demo that anyone can play on PC and...
Yeah...the game is good. Like, stupidly good. You can tell that the developers at Teyon are big Robocop fans as the game is seriously faithful to the IP. They even got Peter Weller to come back and voice Robocop. Robocop plays exactly as you expect, you're big, slow, but very powerful. You just take all your typical FPS conventions, and throw them out the window. Since you're Robocop, all the guns have ZERO RECOIL. You can just go in and start blasting, using your targeting scanner to pinpoint weak points on dirtbags and fire. Hiding behind cover? Who needs that when you're a big walking refrigerator? You can take so much damage that getting shot is a minor inconvenience. Just walk up slowly to them and PUNCH THEM IN THE FACE. Or grab them and throw them at others. Or just grab random objects around the world and throw them, like a CRT to electrocute a thug. Enemies are designed around the fact you are Robocop, as many of them wear armor to protect key weak points. Like one would wear a helmet making them immune from headshots, but not immune to nutshots
But it isn't all just shooting bad guys. You are still a police officer after all, so the game is full of cop things to do. There's massive Deus Ex style districts to explore, full of lots of people to talk to and side quests to do, even small stuff like just writing parking tickets on illegally parked cars gets you XP to spend on skills. For example in the police station there's one quest where the officer running the complaints help desk is overwhelmed, so you help him out by opening a second line and taking the complaints that come your way. One of them is a wanted criminal who came to turn himself in thinking he would get the reward money. The humor is so fun and stupid, just like the actual Robocop movies.
The story of the game takes place inbetween the events of Robocop 2 and 3. There's a new crime wave sweeping Old Detroit as a mysterious new wealthy crime boss only known as "the New Guy" has come to Old Detroit, and now every gang is wanting to work for him. The game opens with one of the gangs called the Torchheads taking over a television news broadcast to advertise their services to the New Guy, and the first mission is you going in alone into the Channel 9 TV Station to rescue the hostages and kill all the Torchheads inside. You'll be on a crusade to stop any crime you see and get to the bottom of the New Guy crisis, while also dealing with the human side of Murphy. Your choices you make matter as you investigate crimes and talk to citizens you gotta choose between upholding the law or serving the public trust
Play the demo now. It's massive. It took me two hours to beat it and I haven't even done all the side quests available as they included a full district to explore.
As Ready or Not completes and matures no doubt I'll have a good look as it is very much the spiritual successor to SWAT 4. Another good mod for SWAT 4 is SEF First Responders which is making good progress.
