Later still heavily armoured juggernauts lose the balletic grace of their S.W.A.T colleagues but will happily eat your entire ammo reserve without falling over.Ī first-person shooter with bad gunplay and a boring collection of guns isn’t in a good spot to begin with, but Rockay City also doesn’t succeed as a nostalgia piece either because the cliche-ridden writing and poor delivery rob even performers such as Michael Rooker and Michael Madsen of the charm that makes them so watchable on the big screen.įor some characters, it can just come off as awkward. A longer firefight will often see the police escalate in difficulty until they’re hurling athletic S.W.A.T teams at you that will dive around and take a fair bit of punishment before dying. The gang members you’ll face off against can only real hope to damage you by using the weight of numbers, and entry-level cops and security guards will often look at you passively as you run over to do them in. The enemies you’ll fight slowly escalate in difficulty but this often feels artificial. ![]() Picking out weapons from Rockay City’s dull arsenal does not spark joy, and it’s incredibly rare that firing one of them thrills, either. The guns are boringly designed, a collection of humdrum rifles, uzis and shotguns daubed in nonsensical colours. The primary issue here is that the shooting in the game is imprecise and messy, while the weapons you’re armed with lack impact, with rounds hitting goons in t-shirts with no sense of consequence whatsoever. Lumped in together there’s a lot on offer from Ingame Studios’ Crime Boss: Rockay City, but even as the game tries to achieve some success as a nostalgia-baiting blaster, a multiplayer shooter and an exercise in roguelike persistence, it rarely succeeds at making the game feel worthwhile. Urban Legends is the same, really, but has little vignettes that play out over three-heist arcs, and echoes the mechanics of Payday even as it fails to understand that the dollar figure that underpins it all was an essential part of Payday’s appeal.Ĭrime Boss: Rockay City. ![]() Then there are the cooperative modes, Crime Time – a quickplay multiplayer mode that delivers the Payday magic without any of the overarching progression that made that particular heist-’em-up so compelling – and Urban Legends. READ MORE: ‘Deceive Inc.’ review: ’70s-set spy sabotageĮlsewhere, It’s a single-player roguelike game that takes the trappings of the Payday franchise and wedges them into a campaign that sees you trying, again and again, to bring the entire city under your control.Mostly, it’s a shooter, a first-person blaster set in the fictional Rockay City, a crime-filled city where digitally de-aged celebrities mingle with each other, trading lines with the charismatic impact of a Nerf dart that couldn’t make friends in secondary school. ![]() Crime Boss: Rockay City is a lot of things.
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