RoboCop: Rogue City Review (Xbox Series S)

RoboCop: Rogue City is a game that offers a detailed and immersive experience for its players. With a download size of 43.8GB, the game boasts highly detailed graphics and a 1000 Gamerscore. The graphics settings include options for gamma correction, field of view slider, chromatic aberration, and motion blur.

The game is an action shooter with four difficulty levels – Easy, Normal, Hard, and Extreme. It offers two controller presets for left-handed or right-handed players. The game is officially licensed and features in-game cutscenes. The gameplay is from a first-person perspective in a full 3D world with 360-degree camera control.

Robocop Rogue City provides tutorial pop-ups as you play along with a tutorial menu to reread them. Players can pick up ammo and guns from enemies. The game features an awesome scanner that targets and highlights enemies. The gun feels good to shoot with a satisfying headshot noise and feedback. The scanner also scans the environment and bodies to give more information.

Players can grab and throw enemies around like a ragdoll. Night vision is built in. Evidence is the collectible in the game and can be found all over. Breaching through a door has you entering in slow-mo so you can try and take them out. There are destructible elements throughout the level from plasterboard to pillars, TVs, and everything else.

Robocop Rogue City has an excellent likeness of all the original characters from the film. It offers a good strong story that is gripping as it is full of action. Players can heal themselves and find new charges for it through the level. Each level/location has a fair amount of free roam about it so you can poke around. Players can earn EXP from picking up evidence to killing enemies and finishing the mission.

However, the game does have some drawbacks. There are wooden animations and dead-looking eyes in some characters. The movement even on max sensitivity feels sluggish but that could be by design. A fair few sections turn into straight-up shooting galleries. There are a few instances of the graphics loading over and over. Crime scenes are fun but not that taxing. It’s never sure when it saves.

Players can level up to get a skill point to put into the skill trees for combat, armor, vitality, engineering, focus, scanning, deduction, and psychology. There is an end-of-mission breakdown for secrets found, hostages, saved, and any optional secondary objectives. You get a rank at the end with the EXP reward. The skill trees can add new abilities or improve your stats.

During downtime, players can walk around the police station and take on optional side missions like helping at the front desk. At times, players get multiple-choice questions that can be deemed as helping the public trust or upholding the law. There are clear mission markers and full mission management.

When going out to do missions, players can freely walk around the city and find clues, extra missions, or criminals breaking the law. At crime scenes, players can use the RoboCop scanner to go in close and find clues and evidence. The RoboCop scanner allows you to see things from a distance making it easier to find clues and criminals. There is a handy compass on the screen to show objectives.

Players have the freedom to play how they want in the story. It is not forced on you and you can just do side missions for a bit or explore around. Players can issue car tickets and fines to drunks. There is a handy button to fast-forward conversations. There are multiple-choice encounters.

Your gun can be upgraded and have new abilities added on. This is done by slotting in chips you find and routing the power through a tree-like interface. Apart from good things, there are bad things like less firepower or longer reloads so the trick is to avoid those. This adds a layer of puzzle to the game.

Overall, RoboCop: Rogue City nails the feel and look of the Robocop films like never before. Despite some minor drawbacks, it offers a comprehensive and engaging gaming experience and is a must-play for Robocop fans and those with any interest in the genre. Honestly it restored some of my faith in licensed games.