It's a linear, story driven game with some action sequences and very light puzzles. All on a steampunk (or rather electro-punk?) ship Helios. Some loose thoughts: - the story is interesting enough for what it is: your genius sister invents a new power source along with Nikola Tesla and, as always, it all goes wrong - there are some lovely locations here, breathtaking even (theater and garden genuinely made me stop and admire the views) - the lighting is too dark to the point of being frustrating at some points and there is no gamma slider in the menu, I assume it was a misguided design decision - sound bugs: sometimes dialogue blows up your ears, sometimes you have to read subtitles because you can barely hear your own character - it's not strictly a walking simulator, because there are fail-states but the action sequences are lame (run just the way we want you to or die) Overall I'd say I enjoyed my time with it, if you can get it cheap its worth a playthrough.
Positives: + you are RoboCop, you just can't beat that power fantasy if you grew up watching the movies + the Auto-9 after upgrades almost makes you feel bad for the bad guys... almost, by the end you are walking death and destruction + if you didn't like hunting around for that last parking ticket to issue in Rouge City there is definitely none of that here + the brutalist, sci-fi mega-tower is a cool concept, and there are some nice looking locations in the levels + the future dystopian satire is still there + you get to play as ED-209 for a while Negatives: - level design. You are in a tower, or at least, the game tells you you are, you can't really tell since for the most part there are no windows. What floor you are on? Who knows. Is the current level above or below the one you just completed? Again, can't really tell. Here' are some apartments, here's a mall, here's a cinema, here are some labs (?) and have some corporate lobbys for good measure - they don't feel connected to eachother. - story is nothing to write home about. Bad guy steals robocops chair (??) to build some kind of thing which I never really got what he plans to DO with exactly? It all really boils down to this: - if you enjoyed Rouge City - you will find fun here - if you found it kind of 'meh' - this will propably not change your mind - if you haven't played Rouge City - go play that instead
