Game news RoboCop Rogue City, the “50% man, 50% machine” cop is back on PC, PS5 and Xbox Series to bust some mouths
Published on 05/06/2023 at 17:47
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A true fashion phenomenon and pop culture icon of the early 90s, RoboCop is back, this time in a video game, in an episode that smacks of nostalgia and which definitely does not intend to be lace.
For its 35-year career, Robocop is making a comeback with a bang!
RoboCop, Terminator, Judge Dread, Demolition Man, etc… The 80s and 90s had their share of half-man, half-robot vigilantes. In 1987, 3 years after the release of James Cameron’s timeless Terminator, Paul Verhoeven (Total Recall, Basic Instinct, Showgirls, Starship Troopers, etc.), another Hollywood giant, tackles the world of robots with Robocop. Real hit at the box office, the film was even nominated 3 times for the Oscars and won the precious statuette in the “sound mixing” category.
A success that earned it 2 direct sequels in 1990 and 1993, a reboot in 2014, animated series and no less than a dozen video game adaptations before gradually disappearing and returning to center stage with the announcement of the game RoboCop: Rogue City in the summer of 2021. A beautiful return to the fore which will continue next year on Amazon Prime in a film as well as in a series.
Like an air of Cyberpunk 2077
Announced in 2021, expected for this month of June 2023 and now planned for the start of the school year in September, RoboCop: Rogue City is intended as a tribute to the original trilogy released between 1987 and 1993.
If the script should offer us a new original story, it will still be based on the original films where we will once again play the indestructible Alex Murphy equipped with his famous exoskeleton to clean the streets of Detroit from thugs and criminals. We won’t tell you more for the moment so as not to spoil the surprise, but the fans should be delighted.
What we can tell you, however, is that with the controller in hand, the game is quite punchy, the fights are very dynamic, the engine allows you to destroy a lot of elements of the scenery and visually, it’s really great own.
The first steps in the game immediately made us think of Cyberpunk 2077, for its dark and punk rock universe, or even Watch Dogs, in its way of constantly scanning people and the environment. How not to mention either Max Payne and his famous Bullet Time? In short, references are everywhere and we like that. The shooting and hand-to-hand combat phases are very violent, blood spurts everywhere, heads explode, as you will have understood, this is clearly not a game for children.
Published by Nacon, a subsidiary of Bigben Interactive, to whom we owe the recent Lord of the Rings: Gollum, we hope that the additional 4 months of development will allow the game to be released in good conditions and to offer us an experience worthy of this name.
