First things first: I didn't saw any of the Robocop movies before playing this game - and after finishing it, I went straight to watching them - and had great time realizing how many bigger and smaller things they manage to add to the game from the film(s). Also, when first starting the game, I had horrible lagging/stuttering even before reaching the Main Menu. After restarting the game, it never occured again! The game definitely has optimalization problems, especially with more lights (like fire) involved. The gameplay is pretty simple yet very enjoyable! You play as (suprisingly) Robocop. You are durable, but not indestructible - enemies get stronger as the game goes on. You may be slow, but you will compensate for it with superior firepower, accuracy and strenght. There are criminals in the city, who need a few lessons about the law, civilians who need help and the ability to trust the police! During the game, you will alternate between free-roaming - looking for side-quests and collectibles - and longer, more linear quests. The police station and the city feels very much alive, the important NPC-s are written alright, and most of the time are funny. While playing, you will level up, and earn points which you can use to improve your combat abilities (damage, armor, life) and skills affecting exploration, dialog options and the available options to do quests. You can do anything without maxing out any skill, it's really up to you if you either want more options or want to focus on the part(s) of the gameplay that you enjoy the most. The writing is solid, in my opinion, although pretty simple. The interactions are usually add something bigger or smaller to the story. The big revelations during the story are pretty obvious, nothing groundbreaking. While there are dialog options, those are pretty limited, basically they are there so those parts wouldn't feel like cutscenes. While I love RPG-s with good dialog options, I never felt the game lacking those. 4,5/5
I played the first mission, and the game looked fun! - The graphics looked nice, especially the lights and colors - The dialogues were funny, had a bit of an oldschool feeling (in a good way) - The controls felt a bit clunky (although I mostly play FPS shooters or Third person RPGs, so maybe it was just not something that I'm used to) - The cutscenes were also done well - Loved the voices and the music was spot on Then I looked up the game and found out that it was a remake (nothing wrong with that), and what got my attention was the fact that it was released in 2020. So I searched and found out that the remake's devs cut content just (!) becasue they didn't liked them... Guess that's what happens when devs with "modern mentality" touch older games... There is no way I'd support any game that got this kind of mentality, ideology etc around it - where it comes from (devs, publisher) is irrelevant. Refunded! If you don't care about this kind of stuff, then give it a try.
If you enjoy post-apocalyptic games, you really should check this series out. The Metro games tells you a great, gripping story of the humans surviving after a nuclear war. During the story, all aspects of the human nature are shown to the player through well written, interesting characters. You'll get to see how uniting the common goal of survival - be it as the human race, or the person(s) you share a struggling journey through radiation, anomalies, mutant hordes or bandits - can be. You will also see how easly humans can turn against each other, regardless how few of them left - may it because of hatred, distrust or simply greed. You will see the destroyed, cold and unfogriving - although not uninhabited - landscape of Moscow, and the always dark, sometimes mystical (but not less forgiving) tunnels of the Metro. You will have multiple opportunities to make (smaller or bigger) choices in all three of the games, although don't expect dialog choices. In the first game, these choices are meant more like a tool to increase immersion for the player, as they don't affect (to my knowledge) the ending, but let you do your small deeds in the harsh reality of the Metro. In the second, they "extended" this mechanic, also adding some choices that felt more important. In the third, they maxed it out, with multiple points where your actions can have consequences, and not just for the ending. The games have mutiple difficulties, allowing the player to play how they feel like. You can play in hyper realistc, very difficult setting, where ammo and other supplies are scarce (stealth almost always an option) or as an action shooter, where you can blast through humans and mutants with an AK and a shotgun. There is also a nice arsenal of weapons the player can choose from! Speaking of resources, all of the maps will have multiple hidden layers where you can find some extra stuff, so exploring always feel satisfying. Give it a try, if you like any of the elements I wrote about!
Pre-ordered, played 300h then came back for 2.0 and the DLC, currently at 500h. There are parts that I love enough to be able to get lost in Night City and the stories in there - for me, thats one of the most important part of an RPG game. Builds, intresting main and side quests, charaters - it's all in there - and I saw that from Day 1, that's what kept me coming back. Why this game could've been a 5/5 game: - great story, with a few major, more lesser but still noticeable choices - and the important elements feel important, they have weight - awesome, compelling characters whom I kept wanting to know more about - may they be good or bad, and whats most important, in between - Johnny Silverhand became one of my favorite video game characters of all time - Night City feel enormous and alive - always something to do (main and side quests, gigs), to achieve (finishing quest lines, getting unique weapons, doing all of a fixers gigs) or just drive around with your car and enjoy the view and awesome soundtracks - the implants/cyberware mechanics are well made: you can just get extra armor to support your build, or get special ones to complete it - some are fun, others can be game changing Why I won't give it 5/5: - still, after so many patches - which DID took care so many bugs - some quests are unfinished, dialogs don't match what came before, like they were put together inconsistently or before/after creative changes - items locked behind promotion - right after the game starts to get momentum, you go into twitch and other BS stuff - romance options blocked for one or the other character makes no sense - and the FACT THAT JUDY HAD MALE ROMANCE WHICH GOT CUT OUT IS TOTAL BS - and I might not care about female V + Panam stuff, but the people who does are also right to call it out - nice way to break immersion with part of the car race side quests... totaly unneccesary, and makes no f-ing sense (Remember CDPR, no amount of ESG money can buy you fans!) 3.5
Played and loved the base game from the start (pre-ordered), through all the mess at that time. Phantom Liberty is mid at best, but adds to the base game some awesome stuff - although many of these should have been in the base game from the start. The writing feels very weak. - from the get-go, the writers try so hard to make you think the way they want you to think about the new characters - this even goes to trying to force you by some lines of V (non-choice ones) - when a character whom not just you but also V barley know more than 30 min gets into danger V starts to hyperventing and babbling... - then sometimes A-B dialogue choices - it's either "I belive you and will follow you" or "I think you are lying but will never reveal why" - later it becomes obvious that those are there because almost all of the "twists" of the main story wouldn't even make you raise your eyebrow if you (or your V) just simply remain sceptical - the only really good parts were when you talk with Johnny about the stuff thats happening - because of these, I couldn't care less about the new ending if I wanted to Some of the characters had great potential, but they never go beyond some well made sketches. Idris Elba and his awesome performance (loved every minute with him on screen) are sooo wasted in this mimic of a story. The girl-who-is-the-key-to-everything feel... fostered (for the lack of a better word) by the writers for the whole story, with lackluster dialogue options - talking with her was a chore to get through from the start, regardless how hard the game was trying to tell me how amazing she was. The new gameplay elements are very good! - the new zone is awesome, feels really alive - Fun side quests! - the Air-drops are very fun, they feel rewarding - the car stealing mini-s should be in the base game, they feel like missing starter content (also very good) If you like the base game, the DLC is worth buying, at least on sale - but only because of the base game.
