When is RoboCop: Rogue City set? Timeline with the films explained
radiotimes.comIt almost feels like it came out of nowhere, but the best entry in the RoboCop franchise since the original film is here.
Yet longtime fans might be wondering, «When is RoboCop: Rogue City set?»
Luckily for you, we have how exactly it fits into the timeline explained, with the events of the preceding film to provide you with the context needed for going into the new narrative.
There were three RoboCop films, with a couple of spin-off TV series produced in Canada. We don’t need to worry about the latter, however, as the game is nestled neatly between the movies.
It’s quite the substantive story, too, with many missions that explore Detroit and its troubled inhabitants in greater depth than ever before. Such is the wonder of the video game medium.
Fully realised characters and setting aside, being a video game, we also get to be RoboCop and blast away hoodlums and punks with the signature Auto-9 sidearm. Such is the duality of mankind.
But enough babbling, our programming is telling you to read on — and listen to our podcast, One More Life.
RoboCop: Rogue City is set between the second and third RoboCop films, RoboCop 2 and RoboCop 3 respectively.
In RoboCop 2, the megacorporation Omnu Consumer Products (OCP) tried to further its plans of taking over the entire city via the Delta City project by letting it default on its debt.
To make the city look even more incompetent, the OCP slashed the private pension of the Detroit Police Department before implementing their own security forces.
Subverting all of these is Cain, the cartel of a dangerous drug gang that manufactures the designer narcotic, Nuke.
During the power struggle, Cain is apprehended by RoboCop and is transformed into a cybernetically enhanced killing machine –
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