With Terminator and now RoboCop done justice, I can’t wait to see what other iconic 80s action hero Teyon lends its chops to next. Alexander Cope is a gaming veteran of 30-plus years, primarily covering PC and Xbox games here on Windows Central. It runs smoothly at 1080p with 60 FPS until you get into firefights with dozens of enemies and multiple explosions on-screen at once. You move slowly and inexorably through locations, relying on RoboCop's armour to absorb the huge amount of gunfire coming your way. However, Teyon puts so much effort into nailing the aesthetics and the atmospherics that its output is way beyond the usual tie-in shovelware.

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New footage of RoboCop: Rogue City highlights what players will be able to do when playing as the part-man, part-machine, all-cop protagonist: investigate crimes, shoot bad guys, and hand out parking tickets. That’s what is most impressive about RoboCop: Rogue City: it’s not just a solid first-person shooter set in the RoboCop universe – developer Teyon absolutely nails the look and feel of its film inspiration in ways that nothing else has. Based on the classic 1987 film, a new trailer for the game debuted during Nacon's Connect event and showed off a few brief snippets of gameplay mixed with in-game cutscenes.But remember, the choices you make have real consequences for both the citizens and the outcome of your mission. Yes, there's a bunch of the usual skills and upgrades to unlock as you go; earning points to pump into a skill tree that gives you a few new gimmicks — defensively and offensively — to play with, but for the most part what you've got here doesn't change the tempo much between missions that are linear processions through which you stomp with only death on your metal mind.

RoboCop: Rogue City Xbox review — Imperfect but enjoyable

Small touches, like the visible scan lines when you zoom in and aim down your weapon sights (which also highlights enemies so you can pick them off through smoke and darkness), is exactly the right vibe.But then the rival dealer appears at the thief's door and the thief immediately starts begging RoboCop for help. These are the kinds of tensions you could build something genuinely new out of, but Rogue City never really interrogates them. This is exactly what I am looking for in an era that has been dominated by live service online multiplayer shooters. Because as excellently rendered locations like downtown, the Detroit Police Department station and even a simple quarry can look, pulling me out of the experience was the extremely poor facial expressions and lip-synching of NPCs.