RoboCop

The Good
Would you ever put your brain in a robot body? Most people I think would, I mean to have the ability to be superhuman and do what other mortal men cannot, but I could see your reason for not electing to do so. Unfortunately, for Alex Murphy he has no choice in the matter, after being gunned down violently by ruthless gangsters he is rebuilt and made better than he was before under the new alias “Robocop”. He is more powerful than your average man, practically invincible, and is supposed to not have any memory of his past life but, then starts remembering how the people involved brutally murdered him, then vows for revenge finding corruption at the root, that OCP is full of paid off officials and Robocop must save Old Detroit and Delta City. This being the plot synopsis of the first Robocop movie(and the only good one).

Robocop for the Xbox is an FPS where you play as who else Robocop, trying to save Detroit once again this time from a new drug sweeping the city called Brain Drain which is being pushed by all the major gangs and drug lords Robocop must stop this threat meanwhile, discovering a thick web of conspiracy involving, you guessed it OCP, and the local government. Being an plot written exclusively for the game, it serves as being somewhat of a sequel to the film which, as sad as it might be to say this is better than any of the movie sequels.

The Gameplay consists of nine fairly large levels crawling with gangsters, and evil robots, as well as a giant rat(Wait What!). The levels being long is both good and bad because of the lack of checkpoints in the levels.(More on this in the Bad section of the review) In the levels you have a variety of main objectives and some secondary ones like kill all gangsters, and rescue all hostages and so on it is surprisingly deep for a game described as one of the worst games ever by most critics.

The controls in the game allow for a lot of abilities without over complicating the controls like the basic walk, shoot, but no jump button, you can auto target multiple enemies and quickly shoot them like those scenes in the movie, you can even make Robocop spin his gun like in the film.

The Bad
Now, the bad this game does have its fair share of bugs like the enemies having their torso’s uncontrollably spin or shake as if they were possessed, and enemies can sometimes shoot and hit you through walls.

The sound effects are pretty basic, the voice acting is terrible the only good voice is the ED-209 as it sounds almost exactly like the one from the movie. The overall sound effects are a mixed bag Robocop’s gun sounds pretty good, but not the machine gun, the laser gun just sounds plain weird.

Now the no checkpoints thing can cause massive frustration when you get through a long level and get to the very end and get killed because some enemy got a cheap shot, or an environmental hazard kills you, like being crushed or, by being run over by a guy in a crane, the game also tends to put you against tough odds like robots with rockets that can kill you in two shots.

The Bottom Line
When it comes down to it this game is only for people really devoted fans of Robocop, and or people who have a high tolerance for bugs and Gameplay issues, so it is not for your average gamer who is not likely to see past the errors and accept it for the fun it can offer.