1st person shooter. Terrible game. You have to know which stats to pump up & you are forced to do a lot of side mission just to power up your character etc. If you don't know which stats to maximize you'll have a really hard time with this game. Played it through a 2nd time knowing which stats I had to maximize & the game was easier. Still don't like it though.

I had a decent enough time, but the impressive audiovisual and gameplay aspects that sell the Robocop fantasy only put the weakness of the writing in sharper relief. It's just very poor — juddering semi-coherently from vignette to vignette, filled with characters right out of video game Central Casting, punctuated with amateurish punchlines, and, when it comes to text, habitually misspelled. At least Peter Weller (PhD!) really doesn't phone it in!

This game is weird in how it's structured like an imsim but there's really only one playstyle the levels allow for and you're not given any variety on how to approach objectives. But man I just love how it plays into the "walking tank" gimmick of the character and tossing shit around is such a satisfying novelty to play with. I think encounters are a bit poorly paced but I think its enemy variety is solid. It captures the aesthetic and vibe of the movies perfectly, too.

If this grade was just for nailing the look and feel of RoboCop, this would be 100 - the sights of Detroit, sounds of RoboCop's foot stomps and the targeting systems in battle are all pitch perfect to the movies. But then it just becomes a generic shooter and no matter how much fun the surroundings are, if it's not fun, I can't give this a passing grade.