If 2023’s fairly good RoboCop first-person shooter RoboCop: Rogue Metropolis left you wanting extra, developer Teyon’s follow-up — half growth, half sequel — affords precisely that… and little extra. Whereas it’s nonetheless nice enjoyable to step into the exoskeleton of Detroit’s cyborg policeman and squish dangerous guys’ heads with Robo’s Auto-9 handcannon, Unfinished Enterprise does too little to distinguish itself from the earlier sport.
RoboCop: Rogue Metropolis – Unfinished Enterprise is ready shortly after the occasions of Rogue Metropolis, and sends RoboCop to OmniTower, an enormous housing unit that, like a lot of Outdated Detroit, is rife with crime, contraband, and distress. Within the wake of a bloodbath at RoboCop’s police station, he’s dispatched to trace down the mercenaries accountable and forestall an enormous hack of Omni Shopper Merchandise’ navy wares. In any other case, a fleet of ED-209s and different weapons of conflict might fall into the fingers of an evil group (versus the benevolent executives at OCP).
OmniTower is huge, populated with unfortunate residents to save lots of or come to the help of, and an enormous variety of weapons for rent and autonomous killer drones to slay. It’s even residence to katana-wielding cyborg ninjas, an acknowledgement of RoboCop 3’s goofy toughs that provides some selection to Rogue Metropolis’s enemy selection. There are additionally swarms of (irritating) flying drones to face and shielded, closely armored mercs, which drive you to change up your technique — principally by blowing off their legs, as a substitute of delivering highly effective head or crotch photographs.
RoboCop’s arsenal expands in Unfinished Enterprise, however solely barely. New to the stand-alone growth is the Cryo Cannon, an enormous gun that immediately freezes enemies, making armored foes a lot simpler to eliminate. Gameplay additionally switches up in missions that provide you with management of Alex Murphy, earlier than he was RoboCop, and the ED-209, in sections that allow you to indiscriminately unleash hellfire on mercs with murderous glee.
Past that, a lot of the gameplay in Unfinished Enterprise feels similar to RoboCop: Rogue Metropolis. RoboCop’s talents to decelerate time, seize and throw his foes, and momentarily blind them are all current right here, as is his plodding motion pace and excessive stage of destructibility. The earlier sport’s improve system and customizable motherboards return, seemingly unchanged.
And, sure, actor Peter Weller is again once more to voice RoboCop, delivering appropriately stilted dialogue.
The mundanity of interacting with the general public is again too. You’ll encounter an extended listing of fetch quests from OmniTower’s residents; a surprisingly massive portion of the sport’s early hours contain buying four-digit safety codes from NPCs or traversing the map, finding out the sport’s setting for clues. Some NPC interactions are fairly humorous, together with a RoboCop know-it-all fanboy who turns the sport briefly right into a trivia quiz.
However I’ve an enormous grievance about RoboCop: Rogue Metropolis – Unfinished Enterprise: It takes too lengthy to get to the good things, and to present gamers entry to the brand new gameplay parts that assist the sequel stand out. There are some intriguing new story beats on Unfinished Enterprise within the mid- to late-game, and fewer reliance on making references to the primary two films, however the growth is frontloaded with acquainted, repetitive duties and redundant encounters.
Teyon and writer Nacon say that RoboCop: Rogue Metropolis – Unfinished Enterprise doesn’t require enjoying the unique Rogue Metropolis. That’s true, and in the event you haven’t performed the 2023 sport, and need to expertise the ability fantasy of enjoying as RoboCop, Unfinished Enterprise affords a tighter, 10-hour-long dose of that have. But when Rogue Metropolis left you hoping for an evolution of Teyon’s tackle enjoying as RoboCop, Unfinished Enterprise doesn’t present. It’s nonetheless saddled with a lot of the identical rote motion, related technical points, and clear alternatives to enhance for the subsequent RoboCop sport.
RoboCop: Rogue Metropolis – Unfinished Enterprise nonetheless shines in moments. Upgrading Robo’s Auto-9 to new ranges of destruction, completely executing a slow-mo takedown on a half-dozen scumbag meat puppets, after which petting a stray cat can really feel nice. It’s the in-between elements and the cohesive complete that also want an improve.
RoboCop: Rogue Metropolis – Unfinished Enterprise is out there on PlayStation 5, Home windows PC, and Xbox Collection X. The sport was reviewed on PS5 utilizing a pre-release obtain code supplied by Nacon.
