We’ve been conditioned to watch any “gameplay” trailer with a sceptical eye but for this first gameplay reveal of RoboCop: Rogue City there’s very little to see.
That’s because the trailer, which you can watch in the embed below, is very short at just a minute and a half, and it does that irritating trailer thing where all the scenes are cut together super fast so you just get glimpses of the action.
After a few watches and slowed down replays – the YouTube playback speed option proves its worth once again – we can see some promising stuff.
We see players as RoboCop wielding the famous Auto-9 gun against criminals and the ED-209.
While the Auto-9 looks the part we have to wonder how it will be utilized throughout the title as being locked to one weapon throughout an entire playthrough may become tedious.
We don’t get much of an explanation from the game description for this either, but it does provide a basic outline of what we can expect.
“Welcome to Detroit; crime runs rampant as the city lies on the edge of ruin, people fighting for scraps as others live extravagant lives of luxury. Control of the Detroit Police Department is given to the Omni Consumer Products corporation in an attempt to restore order. You are that solution, RoboCop, a cyborg tasked with protecting the city,” the description reads.
The same description also confirms that original RoboCop actor Peter Weller will be providing voiceover work for the game. That’s likely Weller speaking to the audience at the end of the trailer too.
The last aspect worth mentioning is also comes near the end of the trailer where the obedience of RoboCop is questioned by a reporter with an OCP spokesperson ensuring the public that everything is fine. We also see some hanging meat quickly switched for dead human bodies, hinting that there may be some twisting of reality as a plot point here.
That being said RoboCop obeying OCP has been a part of the series since the very beginning and the most recent reboot movie from 2014 also dealt with the control of reality.
RoboCop: Rogue City is scheduled for release on Nintendo Switch, PC via Steam, PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S come June 2023. That’s just under a year away so anything we see in this initial reveal could be completely different by the time the full game is out.
