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Crime Boss: Rockay City is tantamount to elder abuse
Crime Boss: Rockay City is a game that quite simply shouldn’t exist, for a litany of reasons. Morally, the ‘accosted in a lift’ quality of the performances from its stunt cast of washed-up has-beens carries a grotty air of elder abuse. Technically, it’s a disaster. Visually, it’s a sterile, overly-shiny migraine of cheap assets and muddy textures. Aurally, it’s like being stuck in a Superdrug queue next to a tinny radio blasting out Absolute Radio 90s. Spiritually, it feels like a cancelled Xbox 360 launch game, an awkward artefact from a time when videogames were embarrassingly desperate to be taken seriously as adult entertainment.
Crime City Boss Man is a roguelike first-person crime shooter management sim with separate co-op campaigns because nobody involved could decide what this game should actually be, assuming it wasn’t conceived as an elaborate tax write-off. You are Michael Madsen in a cowboy hat, a character you probably vaguely recall appearing in any number of middling crime movies released over the last forty years. You’re here to take over the crime-ridden Rockay City – a metropolis not so much inspired by Miami as it is inspired by several-times removed inspirations of Miami seen in other try-hard videogames and movies desperate to capture the authentic sleaze and edge of late 80s/early 90s media.
Your route to domination is a series of bite-sized heist missions and more straight-forward shootouts, interspersed with some tedious book balancing and micro-management – usually via a stilted cutscene with your secretary, a tragically oblivious Kim Basinger who sounds like she’s only here under a court order. Heist missions play out like an early alpha build of Payday 2, where telegraphed stealth takedowns aren’t guaranteed not to just clip harmlessly through a guard. Before heading out to a stock warehouse or shopping mall, you can hire and equip up to four goons, each with their own particular quirks, who can be switched to on the fly or left at the mercy of a remedial bot intelligence.
Crime Boss: Rockay City Gets PS5 and Xbox Console Release Window
Crime Boss: Rockay City Preview
Crime Boss: Rockay City’s least important mode has some aggressively okay co-op heisting
I spent some time with Crime Boss: Rockay City, the upcoming Payday-esque heist FPS that sees you tackle crime and murder in either singleplayer or co-op, all with nostalgia hits from characters played by Michael Madsen and Vanilla Ice. What’s happened here is: I’ve come away with thoughts, but they’re thoughts on one of three modes that’s the least useful one to have thoughts on. The other two – the bulk of the game – weren’t playable. Still, what I did play was simplistic fun that valued chaos over stealth, with middling results. Unless the other two modes wrap up its action in more interesting ways, I’m unsure whether I can see Crime Boss racking up the cash when it releases next month.
New Crime Boss: Rockay City Gameplay Trailer Is All About Protecting Drugs
To be the top dog in Crime Boss: Rockay City, you’ve got to defend what’s yours. The newest trailer for the first-person shooter shows Michael Madsen’s Travis Barker expecting a shipment of blue pills. It’s up to players to protect the drugs, but Vanilla Ice’s Hielo and his gang are fixing to steal them.
That’s the setup for this gameplay trailer, which shows players on a highway protecting the “candy.” Hielo’s gangs are swarming a truck with the drugs in the back. The perspective is from a character named Quarterback, who’s wielding a pistol and submachine gun against the enemies. He’s also working with Teddybear to stave off their rivals in the video below.
But unfortunately, this mission ends in failure. Thus, publisher 505 Games and developer Ingame Studios offer insight into how Crime Boss: Rockay City carries on when players don’t succeed. In this case, a cutscene shows Barker and Kim Basinger’s Casey getting updated in a bar about their drugs being stolen. Barker responds that he wants his candy back by dawn.
Crime Boss: Rockay City is a star-studded caper taking aim at Vice City vibes
Crime Boss: Rockay City Features Chuck Norris, Danny Trejo, Michael Rooker, And More
If you had a dream that Vanilla Ice and Chuck Norris were starring in a first-person crime shooter together, you’d probably laugh when you woke up. However, that game is real, and it’s called Crime Boss: Rockay City. Announced during The Game Awards, the co-op game comes from Ingame Studios and 505 Games, and those two stars are just the tip of the iceberg.
Michael Masden (Reservoir Dogs) stars in the lead role as Travis Baker, a career criminal attempting to take power in the mob after a previous crime boss died. Playing as Baker, you’ll be able to handpick your own crew and play through both a single-player campaign as well as cooperative multiplayer. Not unlike in Payday or Grand Theft Auto V, you’ll be able to pull off co-op heists, with big rewards if you come out alive.
Alongside the aforementioned names, the game also features Danny Trejo, Kim Basinger, Michael Rooker, Danny Glover, and Damion Poiter. 505 Games emphasized its cast as “’90s heroes” in the announcement, so it’s very possible the tone could resemble that era’s crime films.