Crime Boss Rockay City Review (Steam)

by Jim Smale · Published June 18, 2024 · Updated June 17, 2024

Crime Boss Rockay City Review, Welcome to the 90’s Rockay City! Heist, loot, and shoot your way to the top of the criminal underworld! Build your criminal empire in the single-player rogue-lite campaign or put together a crew with your friends in action-packed co-op multiplayer heists!

Crime Boss Rockay City Review Pros:

Decent graphics.
86.49GB Download size.
Steam achievements.
Full controller support.
Steam trading cards.
Graphics settings – graphics preset, display mode, monitor, resolution, resolution scale, v-sync, supersampling, supersampling quality, reflex, View distance, anti-aliasing, post-processing, shadows, textures, effects, foliage, field of view slider, motion blur, and fps limit options.
Streamer mode support.
Controller settings – Invert axis and sensitivity sliders, aim assist strength, response curve, toggle crouch, and aiming.
Colorblind support.
Link with Epic Games account. (optional)
Optional tutorial.
First-person bank heist gameplay.
Earn EXP, level up, and unlock new items, skins, etc which can then be bought in the campaign and multiplayer.
Suspicion strikes – if you get seen doing dodgy stuff then you get a strike or if it’s serious you get the authorities after you.
You can ping items/cameras etc and it shows for everyone.
In the lock-picking mini-game, you have to line up the lines of the lock mechanism to open it.
Sneak up on civilians and police, opponents, etc and you can subdue them or/and ziptie them.
When ziptied you can make people follow you.
In solo play you can control all four characters by swapping between them on a radial menu, you can give orders like subdue or loot to your crew.
At all times you can see the outline of your crew through walls.
When looting you have a bar that once full fills a bag, you can typically carry two bags at a time.
End of the mission breakdown and star rating, you get to pick one of three upgrades or unlocks which are represented as magazines.
Three ways to play – quick join, campaign, and multiplayer.
Progression is a list of your unlocks and is split across six areas – weapons, equipment, team members, weapon skins, boss perks, and boss appearance. You do have an overall bar at the bottom.
Three difficulties for that campaign mode – normal, hard, and extreme and this gives you an exp earning boost.
Roguelite is the mode in the campaign initially with other modes paid DLC.
In-game cutscenes.
Has a star-studded cast of characters complete with the actor using their voice.
Clear easy to read Hud, very minimal.
People will have a bar above their heads showing how much they see you or if they are suspicious.
The nap in campaign mode is where you plan who and where you are going, you can take over territories and send crew members out on your behalf.
When taking control of territories you get a daily income, bonuses, etc.
Hire and fire crew members.
Play how you want.
Turf wars are a case of sending as many members as you want and then you play in it and it plays like a team deathmatch mode.
Before a heist, you can pick who to take out.
Travis Baker is the head of your crew and you can play as him by taking him out on missions, when he is in play you earn more rewards but if he dies then the game run is over.
Missions vary in length.
You can finish missions without completing the objective.
Very stealth-focused.
Familiar controls.
After you have depleted your team’s resources you can end the day.
The story is a bit cliche but man it’s a lot of fun, with so many well-known actors and great music and set pieces it has more than enough to keep you going.
A new day will bring in your payouts but can also help lower your heat value as high heat makes simple missions harder.
Goals are bonus missions that help advance your domination as your end goal is to take the whole city.
Manage your empire by taking out loans, selling assets, and clearing out stash items.
Has many mission types like territory battles, attacking police headquarters and so much more.
Each character has their own exp and level including unique stats and weapons.
Goals can give rewards or could help weaken the boss, you get to pick your goals from a set.
Multiple choice interactions to help form how you run your empire.
They do a really good job of setting up the story and giving the impression that you have a lot of say and sway over proceedings.
You can have your territories attacked and can choose to defend or lose them.
Crew members can eventually earn promotions within the organization which increases stats, more mission cuts, perks, weapons, etc.
Each character has perk slots, and you can change their load out by buying guns and throwables.
Excellent voice work.

Crime Boss Rockay City Review Cons:

Cannot remap the controls.
The Light flare can be off-putting and makes it hard to make out things like security cameras.
The graphics look a bit fuzzy in places which obscure detail.
Highlighting areas and missions on the map is a real pain as you have a small cursor and you need to click a small icon.
Early on it does make you feel invincible and then the difficulty ramps up.
The conquered territory screen is a bit bland considering how bombass the other screens are.
The gunplay is a bit stiff and not as smooth as you would expect.
In terms of planning out a heist the game isn’t great at giving you information or any way to get better, seeing enemies can be hard, knowing the target or getting a layout of the land, etc.
Some unlocks are multiplayer only.
Ai movements and attack patterns are not always that realistic, had a few times where they just keep running at you or they bunch up.
Had a few instances of the game stuttering in built-up firefights.
At times the game doesn’t recognise the controller.
Had instances of the game giving me an unreal process crash report and going back to the desktop.

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