RoboCop Rogue City Hands-On Preview – MagnaVolt: Lethal Response!

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Polish game developers Teyon has had their hand at a variety of first-person-shooter campaigns in different playstyles, from rail shooters to post-apocalyptic open worlds. What all of these games have in common is a basis on 1980s action films that survived the test of time. Teyon has expanded these film franchises with titles that fit neatly into the mythos left behind by the likes of Stallone and Schwarzenegger and that trend continues forward with a new story that takes place between the second and third entries in the storied trilogy about OCP Crime Prevention Unit 001: RoboCop: Rogue City.

Peter Weller returns for his iconic role as the walking tank that’s known as part man, part machine, and all cop. It isn’t just Weller returning to patrol the streets of Old Detroit, as Anne Lewis and other returning cast members make the city of Old Detroit feel alive. The developers not so subtly hinted at ED-209 making a return, surely one that’s intended more for a late-game encounter. Billed to take place shortly after Peter Sellers’ second foray as Unit 001, there should be plenty of easter eggs and winks to players that are more than a little familiar with the RoboCop, although the developers promised that players could still understand Rogue City even as their first piece of RoboCop media.

The one campaign mission that I was able to play through was incredibly early on in Alex Weller’s return to the mean streets to clear out a television station that’s been turned into a hostage situation alongside fellow officer Anne Lewis. Naturally, rather than being a shrewd negotiator, the primary option is to go through guns blazing. Towards the end of the mission, an unexpected blast knocks Officer Murphy off his feet and smashes