“RoboCop: Riot City” has only been on the market for a few weeks, but it has already brought considerable success to publisher Nacon. Over the past 36 years, the iconic character has appeared in many video game titles, from side-scrolling adaptations of the original two film versions to RoboCop 3, a breakthrough in polygonal graphics. RoboCop even appeared as a DLC character in the violent fighting game “Mortal Kombat 11”, fighting alongside classic 80s action movie characters such as the Terminator and John Rambo.
Now in “RoboCop: Rage City”, players can play the role of Alex Murphy, the police detective who was transformed into RoboCop, and patrol around the old Detroit city map to solve crimes. The story of “Rogue City” is set between the second and third “RoboCop” movies, and the original actor Peter Weller performed the voice. In the process of exploring the story of “Rogue City”, players can choose to use gentle or violent means to resolve events, and many side stories also present the dark cyberpunk-style city scenes that are the signature of the “RoboCop” series.
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Although it may have only received relatively average reviews when it was released, according to the Push Square website, the game received a total of approximately 435,000 players within two weeks. Even though this does not necessarily represent actual sales data, Nacon Executive Chief executive Alain Falc seemed very pleased with the news and thanked developer Teyon for their efforts and MGM, the rights holder of the “RoboCop” film series, for offering the adaptation rights.
Many players praise “RoboCop: Violence City” for its reproduction of the dark satirical style of the original movie and consider it a very successful nostalgic game, and its quality is between independent games and 3A masterpieces. What’s interesting is that developer Teyon created an FPS/RPG adaptation game “Terminator: Resistance” in 2019 for the classic action movie “Terminator” also from the 1980s. Many players think this is a game that has been An underrated work, it is even regarded as part of the official history of the “Terminator” series.
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The success of “RoboCop: Riot City” once again proves Teyon’s ability to adapt classic movies into games, and it has accumulated a large number of players in these weeks. It has now become Nacon’s most successful product on the market. As for its subsequent performance during the year-end festival period, it remains to be seen.
