RoboCop: Rogue City

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Top Critic Average

66%

Critics Recommend

IGN
7 / 10
PC Gamer
65 / 100
Eurogamer
3 / 5
TheGamer
3.5 / 5
GamesRadar+
2.5 / 5
Game Informer
7.5 / 10
GameSpot
7 / 10
VG247
4 / 5
Creators: Teyon, Nacon
Release Date: Nov 2, 2023 - Xbox Series X/S, PlayStation 5, PC

RoboCop: Rogue City Review Summary

FairCritic Consensus

Satisfying, brutal combat

Dated graphics and technical issues

Limited mission variety and repetitive design

RoboCop: Rogue City is a first-person shooter emphasizing action and nostalgia, drawing heavily from the iconic 80s movie franchise. Critics praise its satisfying gunplay, a faithful recreation of RoboCop’s world, and the inclusion of side missions and police work that add depth to the gameplay. However, criticisms revolve around the game's dated visuals, pacing issues, and occasional bugs. The lack of engaging mission variety and stilted dialogue detract from an otherwise entertaining experience, making it best suited for franchise fans.


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Critic Reviews for RoboCop: Rogue City

RoboCop: Rogue City is a pitch-perfect throwback to the action movies of the ‘80s. It’s over-the-top violence with charm, largely well put together but rough on the edges. Most importantly, it's a fun way to spend time in a beloved fictional universe that doesn’t overstay its welcome. Blasting at goons as an unstoppable walking machine remains as extremely entertaining as it seemed on the big screen, thanks in part to an impressive commitment to capturing the look and feel of the original film. Mixing in elements like routine police work and side quests does a great job changing the pace, too. Even if it’s not the best example of visual fidelity, and prone to some bugs along the way, that love of RoboCop shines through. This is a solid B movie of a video game, which is exactly what the source material demands.

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Robocop: Rogue City's fantastic shootouts are held back by a dull narrative and bloated pacing.

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Teyon blends bloody linear shootouts with light open world action for an entertaining, if unadventurous, RoboCop experience.

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Even if Rogue City had started to rust a little towards the end of its lengthy campaign, its surprisingly in-depth shooting and roleplaying mechanics, love of the source material, and keen understanding of what makes RoboCop so great in the first place has made it one of the biggest surprises of 2023 for me. In a year full of absolute bangers, make sure you spend some time in Detroit.

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Robocop: Rogue City reflects its protagonist's qualities. It's well-built and robust, a few glitches aside, and capable of triggering explosive action. Yet it's also mechanical in its design, its dialogue slow and plodding, and limited in its forms of interaction. Short on engaging mission design and the film's punchy satire, Detroit's finest needs better backup to enliven this drawn out adventure.

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Hopefully, updates will stamp out these issues because RoboCop: Rogue City provides a respectable adventure that feels like a long-lost shooter of the early 2010s in mostly good ways. Admittedly, the license carries the game through its rougher patches; if you’re not a RoboCop fan, the adventure may feel dated or buggy compared to other shooters. But as a B-tier love letter to the tin man in blue, Rogue City is a nice return to the limelight for Alex Murphy.

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RoboCop: Rogue City is a methodical shooter that makes you feel like Old Detroit's greatest crime fighter, but it errs when its devotion to authenticity wanes.

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The only thing malfunctioning around here is the economics of game production. And from that struggle, under circumstances that echo those of the original movie’s troubled production, a brilliant piece of work emerges, that somehow nails every part of the brief and finally proves that Robocop can inspire worthy sequels. And if it didn't look a bit ropey sometimes, I doubt it would feel like Robocop: a stop-motion ED-209 falling down some stairs is goofy as hell, after all, but none of the CGI perfect ED-209s in the 2014 remake ever did anything goofy, and it was crap. So. Y'know.

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