Nacon has introduced that Robocop: Rogue Metropolis, the way forward for regulation enforcement shooters, is its “greatest ever launch,” racking up greater than 435,000 gamers and a pair of.7 million recreation classes in its first two weeks of launch.
“RoboCop: Rogue Metropolis has exceeded our expectations, and achieved a real feat so far as Nacon is anxious,” CEO Alan Falc mentioned. “We’re actually proud to have been in a position to work with the studio Teyon on this recreation created by and for RoboCop die-hards. We’d additionally prefer to thank MGM for the belief they positioned in us all through this collaboration, in addition to all of the gamers who’ve contributed to creating this launch such an amazing success.”
The PC model of Robocop: Rogue Metropolis holds a 75 combination rating on Metacritic, which appears about proper. We scored it 65% in our assessment, praising its “unbelievable shootouts” however knocking it for “boring narrative and bloated pacing,” which is a matter for a recreation spun out of a film that is rather a lot smarter than it would first seem: “Finally Rogue Metropolis would not rise above its B-game standing in the best way that Robocop transcended its B-movie origins.”
Nonetheless, it is good to see {that a} mid-tier shooter like Robocop: Rogue Metropolis can discover success, particularly when it is attempting to muscle into an already-crowded subject only a week forward of the launch of the genre-dominating Trendy Warfare 3. Nacon is not Activision and so it isn’t an apples-to-apples comparability, however I am glad that there is nonetheless room for so-called “double-A” video games, and that smaller publishers can do properly with them. Developer Teyon truly had comparable luck with its earlier recreation, Terminator: Resistance, one other mid-budget licensed recreation that holds a “very optimistic” score throughout greater than 10,500 person critiques on Steam.
The large query now’s whether or not the success of Robocop: Rogue Metropolis opens the door to extra, within the type of an growth or full sequel, and even only a New Sport+ mode that some followers have been asking for. On the very least, Nacon’s happiness with the sport’s gross sales would appear to make that final result an actual risk.
Robocop: Rogue Metropolis shouldn’t be a part of Steam’s Autumn Sale (it simply got here out a pair weeks in the past, in spite of everything) however in case you’re ready for a deal you possibly can choose it up at a 33% low cost on the Epic Video games Retailer, due to these reusable coupons in Epic’s Black Friday sale.
