It’s not terrible, at all, and as a shooter you get to stomp about blowing off punks’ heads with satisfying weapons. The demo is absolutely enormous, and I’ve had to stop playing in order to write this before I run out of daylight. It’s the right voice, but it’s not the right voice. Now 76, the actor delivers his very many lines like a man reading a shopping list over the phone, giving the entire affair a very uncanny feeling. It’s then immediately contradicted by low-poly faces on other characters, and some absolutely dreadful lip-syncing, combined with the flattest acting I’ve seen in forever.Īnd yes, that includes from Peter Weller, who has improbably returned to voice the titular metal officer for this game. It’s immediately visually impressive, with meticulously detailed grimy streets, reflective puddles, and a very shiny Robo-helmet. Yet, on playing this deeply peculiar game, I’m still not entirely sure which way it’s leaning. So a first-person shooter-RPG is a concerning prospect, especially after suffering through similar gaming attempts adapting director Paul Verhoeven’s other masterful satire, Starship Troopers. The original 1987 movie is an all-time classic piece of satire, its deadpan, ultra-violent depiction of police brutality woefully misunderstood for the las 35 years, including by its own sequels. Set between the events of RoboCop 2 and 3, RoboCop: Rogue City feels rather ignominious purely by its chosen setting.
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