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Look, I’ll be the primary to confess it: I did not suppose Robocop: Rogue City regarded excellent after I first laid eyes on it in 2023. And I apologize for nothing, as a result of I nonetheless do not. But in a basic case of what do I do know, it was a reasonably large hit, drawing a “very optimistic” ranking throughout greater than 11,000 consumer opinions on Steam, and now a standalone enlargement is about to reach this summer time.
In Robocop: Rogue City – Unfinished Business, Omni Consumer Products is as soon as once more doing what it does: It’s constructed a large advanced referred to as OmniTower to deal with the residents of Old Detroit, who’re presumably being expelled from their properties for gentrification or no matter—it does not actually matter.
But for some cause, which additionally does not actually matter, the tower has been overrun by “elite mercenaries,” and as a sworn officer of the legislation it is your job to show them into chunky smears on each wall you see. It’s the Detroit Way, apparently.
My first thought right here is that if mercenaries have taken over an OCP tower, that is an OCP drawback, and never one thing Robocop could be all that more likely to lose sleep over. But OCP additionally owns Robocop (it owns all of the cops in Detroit, so far as that goes) and so I suppose there’s not a lot selection within the matter: If the Corporate Vice President of Getting These Guys The Hell Out of the Building says bounce, nicely, leaping will likely be completed.
There is the potential of some correct Robo-satire in that setup, however at a guess I’d say it is extra probably simply a chance to shoot an entire bunch of dudes. Locking cops into an enormous constructing crammed with limitless heavily-armed dangerous guys is a well-recognized situation, in any case, not dissimilar to, say, the sadly neglected 2012 motion flick Dredd:
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Which is itself extremely harking back to the 2011 motion thriller The Raid:
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And that is high-quality, as a result of there’s completely nothing incorrect with setting apart intellectualism and simply cleansing home every now and then: We respect Robocop as a result of it is sensible, however we cheer for Robocop when he shoots that one man within the nuts.
RoboCop: Rogue City – Unfinished Business will characteristic new weapons, ending strikes, and “particular missions” taking gamers by way of “intense flashbacks” that allow them to play as Alex Murphy in his pre-Robocop days, when he was nonetheless, y’know, alive. It’s set to come back out someday this summer time.
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