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RoboCop: Rogue City

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RoboCop: Rogue City is a 2023 game that trades modern shooter conventions for the weight and detective work of its cyborg hero.

11 Interesting Facts About RoboCop: Rogue City

Interesting Facts (8)

  1. #001

    In a side mission, one of RoboCop's informants asks for help finding a tape at a video rental store. He is so vague about the film he wants that the whole store has to be searched. One tape the player can find is Kind Shepherd. The informant then describes how the director threw the Kind Shepherd script in the garbage, and his wife took it out, read it herself and convinced him to make the film. That is more or less exactly how Paul Verhoeven describes being persuaded to direct RoboCop.

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  2. #002

    Long sections of the game have no combat at all; most side quests are built around dialogue or require solving a case with detective skills, and the gun cannot be drawn in the police station or around the city.

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  3. #003

    On RoboCop's second visit to the streets of Detroit, two men near the top of the map can be seen admiring a car. The first says "I wanna drive a 6000 SUX," and the second answers "I'd buy that for a dollar!", a line movie fans will recognize.

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  4. #004

    Certain upgrade categories unlock interactions with objects that are otherwise out of reach, such as safes and health stations.

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  5. #005

    Other upgrade categories alter combat, for instance by slowing it down or enabling a dash that knocks enemies to the ground.

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  6. #006

    The gore is likened to ultraviolent 2000s shooters such as Cold Winter and F.E.A.R., and is seen as fitting for a franchise whose first two films relied on squibs and fake blood.

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  7. #007

    The range of enemies demands new tactics: snipers fire from a distance, while gangsters on motorcycles quickly surround the player.

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  8. #008
    Contains a major spoiler — show

    In a side mission where you recover a box belonging to the reporter, one of the lockers holds a scannable painting. Scanning it displays: "Painting already seen somewhere else." The painting appears in the first RoboCop film, hanging on the wall above the bed behind Murphy's wife in the "homecoming" scene.

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Behind the Scenes (1)

  1. #009
    Contains a major spoiler — show

    Late in the game, on your first visit to the OCP building, you pass through the boardroom and see an intact model of Delta City. A side room off the boardroom holds the badly damaged model, along with the blood of Mr. Kinney, killed by ED209 in the original film after the demonstration went wrong.

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Characters & Cast (1)

  1. #010

    In the "Domestic Terrorist" side mission, you deliver a box to Ronny's. Entering the store, you hear the clerk tell a customer, "What do you mean 'a dollar'? All this comes to $23.50!" RoboCop has just missed the customer's line "I'd buy that for a dollar!", famous from the RoboCop film.

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Deeper Meaning (1)

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    RoboCop: Rogue City deliberately steers clear of modern shooter movement: the player advances through environments like a walking tank, with no cover system, ledge climbing or wall running.

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