RoboCop: Unfinished Business Review: Mindless Fun

RoboCop: Rogue Metropolis – Unfinished Enterprise is a newly launched standalone growth to 2023’s surprisingly excellent and charming RoboCop: Rogue City. And whereas this new RoboCop sport is constructed on the inspiration of Rogue Metropolis, it lacks a whole lot of what made the primary sport so compelling. Nonetheless, it’s enjoyable to stroll right into a room and shoot 20 random thugs with an enormous pistol. In order that’s one thing.

Unfinished Business opens in a very miserable method. Set after the occasions of the final sport, it kicks off with an assault on the police station—which served as one in every of your central hubs in Rogue Metropolis—that leaves most of the NPCs from that sport useless. A number of of the principle characters from the films, like Officer Lewis, survive, level RoboCop within the route of an enormous tower stuffed with mercenaries who had been seemingly accountable, after which don’t present up once more for hours and hours. It’s like Unfinished Enterprise needs to remind gamers of the extra different world and characters of the final sport earlier than it dumps you into the boring corridors of OmniTower.

As soon as in OmniTower, Unfinished Enterprise duties you with reaching the higher ranges of the huge construction. However between RoboCop and his objective are lots of of bots and mercs able to kill the shiny hero. Whereas Rogue Metropolis featured loads of first-person fight, Unfinished Enterprise options hundreds extra. That is largely an motion sport, whereas the final one may very well be charitably described as a low-budget spin on a Bethesda sport.

Fortunately, gunning down creeps and saving hostages continues to be a blast in Unfinished Enterprise. And some new weapons, together with the flexibility to make use of the setting to take down baddies—like shoving somebody down a rubbish chute—assist spice issues up. However I actually hope you appreciated the shooty-shooty bits from Rogue Metropolis as a result of Unfinished Enterprise is usually that.

In Rogue Metropolis, I fell in love with a little bit slice of Previous Detroit as I patrolled it, accomplished aspect missions, met varied characters, and helped shield them. That’s all gone in Unfinished Enterprise. There are nonetheless aspect quests and characters to satisfy, however most of them are left behind between ranges as you retain transferring up. As a substitute of a small slice of city decay that you would be able to develop to like, Unfinished Enterprise provides you oh so many gray corridors and rooms. Thanks?

All of the RPG techniques from Rogue Metropolis are again in Unfinished Enterprise, which does assist add extra to this sport and hold it from being only a straight-up linear shooter, however in comparison with what got here earlier than, it’s disappointing. A number of moments the place you get to play as a pre-RoboCop Alex Murphy are neat, however don’t add a lot to the expertise.

Hopefully, the devs behind Unfinished Enterprise and Rogue Metropolis have a correct sequel within the works that brings again the open-world RPG method that made that final sport so charming and memorable.

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