RoboCop: Rogue Metropolis – Unfinished Enterprise is a newly launched standalone enlargement to 2023’s surprisingly wonderful and charming RoboCop: Rogue Metropolis. And whereas this new RoboCop recreation is constructed on the muse of Rogue Metropolis, it lacks a whole lot of what made the primary recreation so compelling. Nonetheless, it’s enjoyable to stroll right into a room and shoot 20 random thugs with a giant pistol. In order that’s one thing.
Unfinished Enterprise opens in a extremely miserable manner. Set after the occasions of the final recreation, it kicks off with an assault on the police station—which served as one among your central hubs in Rogue Metropolis—that leaves most of the NPCs from that recreation useless. A couple of of the principle characters from the films, like Officer Lewis, survive, level RoboCop within the course of a giant tower crammed with mercenaries who have been probably accountable, after which don’t present up once more for hours and hours. It’s like Unfinished Enterprise desires to remind gamers of the extra diverse world and characters of the final recreation 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 tons 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 recreation, whereas the final one could possibly be charitably described as a low-budget spin on a Bethesda recreation.
Fortunately, gunning down creeps and saving hostages continues to be a blast in Unfinished Enterprise. And some new weapons, together with the power 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 preferred the shooty-shooty bits from Rogue Metropolis as a result of Unfinished Enterprise is generally that.
In Rogue Metropolis, I fell in love with a bit of slice of Outdated Detroit as I patrolled it, accomplished aspect missions, met numerous characters, and helped shield them. That’s all gone in Unfinished Enterprise. There are nonetheless aspect quests and characters to fulfill, however most of them are left behind between ranges as you retain transferring up. As a substitute of a small slice of city decay which you could develop to like, Unfinished Enterprise offers 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 recreation and maintain it from being only a straight-up linear shooter, however in comparison with what got here earlier than, it’s disappointing. A couple 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 formulation that made that final recreation so charming and memorable.
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