If you grew up in the 80's, there's nothing left to say.

Fun shooter with visceral combat, clear respect for the original film's spirit, plentiful environmental destruction, though somewhat underpolished and with uneven graphics (e.g., great lighting and locations but disappointing facial animations or mishandled depth of field in some conversations) - but still much better than I'd expect from a studio with a mixed track record "milking" a mostly dormant IP. It took me 14 hours to beat to near-100%. It's rather on the easy side (I died once or twice on normal difficulty, and I'm not the type to take the time to work out an efficient/optimal character build, and I rarely used the special skills like dodge, blinding flash, temporary shield etc.).

With the semi-open city sections, sidequests, several skill lines, pistol upgrade circuits, dialogue choices with minor story impact, character opinion, use of skills and missable clues in dialogue, etc., I wish they'd actual gone even further and made the game into an immersive sim lite.

There is a lot to enjoy about this game if you're a fan of the movie(s)- Peter Weller returning to the role being the most notable. Some of the locations have been recreated in great detail and almost everything from the movies makes an appearance. In general it looks good but it's just not all it could have been. It's solid rather than exciting. A lot of the story, characterisation and dialogue is basic and clunky, some of the missions are woefully unimaginative (Robocop doing odd jobs around the police station and issuing parking tickets is just not what you came for) and the upgrade system is underwhelming. The motherboard upgrades for Auto 9 in particular seem to offer way more penalties than powerups and none of it really makes a noticeable difference anyway. And you'll be using your Auto 9 a lot because every other weapon in the game has a small mag and you can only carry one reload. You get to the end of the game and Robocop feels basically the same as at the beginning- not satisfyingly faster or stronger and no amazing new abilites, even after you've maxed out some upgrades (and after going through the whole game at a fast walk, just being able to run would have been a worthwhile upgrade). It would have taken only a bit more flair and imagination to make this a really great game, but as it is it's a somewhat tepid success. I am still giving it a thumbs up because it does have it's moments and I loved exploring some of the movie locations, but with this IP it could have been amazing.

Did you love the first two Robocop movies? Do you like first person shooters? K just buy it and play it.

Sure, it's not Callisto Protocol's graphics, nor the action of Call of Duty. I know, that the animations are quite bad and the gameplay is more than less repetitive, but damn, this the game I have always wanted to play since I saw the first RoboCop on VHS as a kid. With the sounds and music and Peter Weller as Alex Murphy, it's all a Robo fan wants. Good job Teyon, now go make a sequel!

TL:DR - Big fan of the movie? Absolutely must buy. Passing interest? Wait for a sale.

I am not the biggest Robocop fan but he's a Robot Cop and that's cool. I bought this on sale.

REVIEW CONTAINS GAMEPLAY SPOILERS!

Robo Pros:

+ Excellent power fantasy. Role playing Robocop with his stompy footsteps and enviroment scanning Green HUD feels awesome.

+ Enemy variety and consistant First Person Shooter gameplay that challenges the player with a customizable upgrade system.

+ Robocop's voice actor, Peter Weller, reprises his role as Alex Murphy Robocop.

+ Speaking of which, amazing voice acting all round. Torch Heads gang voice is entertaining.

+ Many references to the movies, it's a passion project.

+ Some good character development in the story with certain characters.

Robo Neutral:

This is not a conventional FPS where you take cover and crouch/jump. You cannot do those things. You are supposed to tank damage and shoot them before they turn you into scrap.

Robo Cons:

- Many shootouts are completely silent with no music.

- Some difficulty spikes like the part where you defend yourself from waves of robot droids.

- For the most part, bland mission locations. So many videogame cliche's! There's a Chop-Shop, a Quarry, a Prison and even a Sewer Level! Would have preferred more modern looking interiors like the first mission had.

- Janky animations from NPC models.

- The save system is quite bad. No manual save and it's unclear when you get save checkpoints.

Overall, I'd personally give Robocop: Rogue City a 6/10. Definitely will satisfy Robocop Fans but for casual observers I'd recommend getting it on sale.

Nobody is gonna see this review so im just gonna say yabba dabba doo

On the second playthrough as there is no way you can play this game the first time and fill up your skills. Fortunately they added NG+ so you keep all your Skill points and PCBs for the next run.

If you like Robocop you'll like this game as nearly everything in it is a homage to the movies from the comedy advertising to the famous gun case in the OCP executive office.

Only 3 problems I could see with this game. The plot seems to try and use every memorable moment from the first and second movies into this new plot and not to spoil anything but you'll know what I mean when you finally take out the bad guy. A little too anti-climatic. I found myself asking why would the bad guy even try that rather than just allow himself to be arrested?

Second problem is the side quests in this game are going to really annoy you as it's basically busy work like looking for a video in a store or giving tickets to cars illegally parked and while that may seem pretty standard for a game it just doesn't fit with a tank of a machine moving like a steamroller and telling people not to swim in the fountain.

Third problem is this game has a habit of crashing a lot and I've found you can avoid this completely by using MSI Afterburner to reduce your power usage to 90% then the crashes seem to go away.

Anyway considering how much other publishers would've likely really messed this up Teyon did a really good job of sticking to the theme and most of the time you are going to find yourself just playing the whole thing with your Auto-9 to stick with the theme.

And because it was so faithful to the source I'm going to finally try their Terminator game so they got another sale. I wish more publishers would stick to the themes rather than trying to reinterpret what people loved about a movie but these Developers really love Robocop and you can tell when you play it.

TLDR : Get that game for 15 bucks or less, it's not worth more.
Great Robocop game, if you're looking at the shooter side of it.


The graphics are amazing, truly. It feels great wrecking havoc and destroying walls, cars, etc...
The storyline : a simplistic mess. Many times you have to backtrack to your insertion point. This is a tactic to make the game seem longer than it is. You can see and pick up items you did not spot initially, so not a total loss.
Robocop goes to therapy. Take a second to let that sink in.
The characters are dumb, designed for a dumb audience. The two characters that tag along with you are the least aware cops you will ever work with. They brush off killing half a dozen dudes and still question whether they're fit for Detroit PD. Like dude...
You will complete the dumbest missions. Find cats, scan obvious hints...but by the time you get bored, a 10-min rampage mission appears.
You have the possibility to do the robot dance for a kid, which is em...not totally in the Robocop vibe?

I completed the game in normal mode in 9 hours. Fortunately, I didn't pay 49 bucks for this.

It is with a heavy heart, that I must caution against buying what is perhaps the best Robocop game to date.

It's quickly coming up on a year after release and the game still has serious bugs that prevent a fair amount of players from enjoying the game, my self included.

I wanted to not only enjoy the game but stream it for a few people, I even made my self a VERY ♥♥♥♥♥♥ Robocop costume to wear while streaming, but alas every time I would attempt to stream it, the game would crash my video drivers causing the entire stream to crash and often requiring me to restart the entire computer. I tried everything short of buying a new video card to get it to work but nothing fixed the problem. Eventually I had to give up and move on, I was actually really sad about it. I'm convinced it something to do with the sharers related to the cut-scenes because the game crashes every single time it loads a cut-scene for the first time. In the discussions you can still find people having technical problems and trying all manner of things to try and fix it.

I think their other big game, Terminator: Resistance is a fantastic game and I can easily recommend it instead if you're looking for nostalgia, but I'd wait till they iron out these issues or at least be ready to refund if you try this one.
Damn shame.