Summary
Yet another HORRIBLE game from the worst developers ever...
The Good
The shooting is actually pretty fun while it lasts...
The Bad
...for a minute or two, when the satisfaction turns into frustration and the game falls apart at the seams. Honestly, this game is truly awful on all accounts. But the only thing that's more baffling than the sheer awfulness of this movie-licensed dog crap is the fact that this took -- get this --
two years to make. That's right, this was in development for two years. Even then, it turned out to be yet another terribly rushed movie license. Titus Interactive (which, if you don't know, is the French developer infamous for Superman 64, the worst game ever made on any platform) has no excuse for the unfinished state of this game, given not just that they had two years to make it, but due to the fact that most movie-licensed games are released prematurely in order to coincide with a movie's theatrical release. Well, if someone at Titus did not know, the game was already 14 years late when it first started its development cycle in 2001. (RoboCop was released into theatres in 1987.) So, therefore, they had plenty of time to make this game, rather than rushing through it to meet some invisible deadline.
But anyways, aren't we here to talk about the game's defects? Well, there are a lot of problems in this game. I think I should thank Mother Nature for being able to rent videogames before you buy them, because I was lucky enough to rent this trainwreck before buying it, as the publishers are making you pay the full $50 to buy this awful game. Well, I must say, it certainly is not worth it. Robocop starts the game out with his automatic pistol from the movie. However, enemies have guns that are much stronger than yours, even on the very first level. In fact, the most common enemy in the game has a submachine gun. Now just how insane is that? Well, just couple that with the facts that you can't save your game mid-level, the levels are way too long, there are way too many enemies, the enemies take about 10 shots to the head and won't even flinch, you can't pick up an enemy's weapon, you can't crouch, there's very little cover to hide behind, there is an extreme shortage of health and ammo, and the enemies can
shoot through walls (although you can't), and I dare you to get past the first level. I won't even mention the awful PSOne-quality graphics and sound.
The Bottom Line
Even the most hardcore RoboCop fan should avoid this game at all costs and go watch any of the three RoboCop movies instead. (Yes, I was one of the few who enjoyed RoboCop 3.) It's just plain garbage.
