Teyon certainly has experience bringing ’80s action heroes to video games. The publisher and developer are working with studio MGM to “develop an authentic RoboCop game experience that is faithful to the franchise’s DNA,” Nacon said. Rogue City will feature an original story in the franchise’s universe, Nacon said in a news release. Titled RoboCop: Rogue City, the first-person shooter will put players in the total body prosthesis of Alex Murphy, aka RoboCop, on a mission to protect Detroit.īeyond that, Nacon and developer Teyon didn’t reveal much about RoboCop: Rogue City, other than that it’s destined for PC and unspecified consoles in a couple years. The original film is often viewed as a critique of Reagen-era policies and unrestrained corporate power.A new RoboCop video game is in development and slated for release in 2023, publisher Nacon announced Tuesday during a livestream called Nacon Connect. At its best, the RoboCop franchise has served as a critique of the authoritarian power that RoboCop, and regular, un-robotic cops, wield. In the seven years since, and especially in the last year, mainstream views of police have shifted. The last major entry in the franchise was the 2014 reboot, simply titled RoboCop. It will also serve as a reintroduction, for younger players, to RoboCop as a character. Given the set-up in the trailer, it sounds like RoboCop: Rogue City, like the original film, may serve as an origin story for the murderous metallic hero.
That’s the corporation that, in Paul Verhoeven’s original 1987 film, transformed fatally wounded Detroit cop, Alex Murphy, into the titular superhuman cyborg killing machine. Related: Since MachineGames Is Making An Indiana Jones Game, Rockstar Should Make RoboCopįor the uninitiated, OCP stands for Omni Consumer Products. And the question remains: who, or what, will send these crooks on the run, and restore peace to all citizens once and for all.”
OCP insists the situation is under control. “Top story, Old Detroit - Crime has escalated to new heights,” it says.
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