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Grindy and repetitive with no real substance.

Pretty rough around the edges but enjoyable as a whole package. I liked the Infiltrator mode more, clearly that's what inspired the RoboCop game.

Too little of a novelty gag for such a low effort asset flip. Thanks for the Linux build tho.

It's hard to believe a RoboCop game can be this good, and deservedly so. A forgotten cheesy action franchise as old as me, suddenly reappearing as game adaptation by a small Polish studio mostly known for a Terminator game and an older Rambo game? I wasn't expecting much.

Boy was I wrong. RoboCop: Rogue City is a pure immersive sim masquerading as an AA-Game for a hit movie from another era. Aside the usual FPS stuff there also quests and side-quests, exploration, an RPG system with skills and weapon upgrades, and dialogue system choices that affect the story. In a RoboCop game?

Rogue City is a shooter game first, and shooting feels great. The exaggerated, comedic almost, gore (akin to the film), a festival of explosives and particles a John Woo film will be jealous of, the feeling of a walking machine - almost like a rail shooter at times. Very similar to the first mission in a very old RoboCop 3. Grab a guy and toss him 20 meters in the air - It's fun, ridiculous, and on-point for the tone of the film. Wide arsenal of cold-war weaponry from the era, but of course nothing tops the iconic Auto 9. It never gets old to shoot the thing and there's many ways to make it fun.

The story is there, and while fairly predictable it oozes the films atmosphere, similarly exploring the themes of humanity and corporate greed, packed in a satirical dystopian nightmare of Old Detroit. Numerous small dialogues from the people and my favourite - the hilarious radio bits - adhere to the films dystopian and comical mood. There's choices to be made and they somewhat affect the story - and with the skill system it might just warrant a New Game+ run.

Sounds, OST and VA deserve a separate praise. I was really impressed with the main actors VO and mannerisms being so close to the film, only to find out it was the man himself Mr. Peter Weller doing the voiceover. The delivery is on point and as perfect as the original films - bravo!

Everything is a clear tell the game was made with pure love for the source material. UE5 graphics are something else.

My only complaint is over-reuse of an already small "Detroit" downtown, and a few small bugs that had me restart from checkpoint. I would love a DLC for the game.

An excellent game and movie adaptation - easily recommended!

Excellent retro-shooter that plays almost like a Doom 2016-themed DOOM 2 WAD. Classic FPS arsenal that feels great to shoot. Classic DOOM enemies. And some of the most amazing level design in a FPS, especially Prodeus dimension levels. Lots of influence from classic FPS games. Good campaign length and pacing.
Looks great, feels great, what more do you want?

What I enjoy the most about the old-school revival, especially Prodeus, is that the game does not force you into a resource-management mini-game where you have to do a little dance in every arena (Doom Eternal). Wanna shoot only shotgun? Go ahead. Upgrade the thing, get more ammo so you can shoot more. Have fun.

Only minor gripes include slight performance issues even on a higher-end PC, and less challenging difficulty before harder modes (can be adjusted).

Easy to recommend for a good old FPS experience.

"EA Anti-Cheat" has Broken Battlefield V on Linux Indefinitely

"EA Anti-Cheat" has Broken Battlefield V on Linux Indefinitely

Very enjoyable boomer (or should I say Gen X) shooter that you would've easily mistook for Duke Nukem 3D, or Shadow Warrior, or even more so Redneck Rampage - hard to believe this is not a Build engine game. Plays more like Rise of the Triad.
Humor so cringy you just roll with it and have fun. Just plain fun.

Shame it's a bit short even with bonus levels.

A genuine but disappointing effort at the series. Monday starts okay but the game quickly falls apart after.

It's immediately evident that the game is a dull, empty, and lifeless "sandbox", a pity shell of its former self. NPCs are somehow even worse to interact with than in Postal 2. The environments are half-baked, lifeless empty, scattered to create an illusion of a big world, and have 0 interactions to them. Literally a dozen of props can be glued to the ground with no use or even physics to them. The proportion/scaling issues are ridiculous - some items are made for giants, and some doorways or stairwells you can't even fit in without crouching. The environmental storytelling is dull and already outdated - the dated covid jokes, the sex toys near beds (very funny, for the first dozen of times, harhar), and then there is one near every bed in every apartment.

There is no incentive to exploration apart from collectibles.

There is zero novelty to the new engine apart from bugs, and scattering the embarrassingly low amount of "interest points" across empty tunnels in a weak attempt to make the world feel bigger - it is not. "Interest points" are just not interesting - like you deliberately mark an area as interesting, and then there's nothing there.

The sound is a buggy mess of overlapping and not-level matched imports.

The performance is atrocious and the game doesn't even look much better that Postal 2, which came out 20 years ago.

I can't believe this is a full release, it's half the game at most. And the multiplayer - where is it? Postal 2 had it and it was awesome. Postal 4 is a bad attempt at making the same game again, 20 years too late. This literally could've been a DLC for the second game. The only redeeming quality is having Rick Hunter as Postal dude again. That's it.

Postal 4 is ALL Regerts.

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