ROBOCOP: ROGUE CITY BRINGS BACK 80S ICON TO DISPENSE JUSTICE IN A BRAND NEW ADVENTURE

RoboCop: Rogue City is now available on PlayStation®5, Xbox Series X|S and PC

Lesquin, France, November 2, 2023 – Prepare to don the iconic armor, as you attempt to serve the public, protect the innocent, and uphold the law in RoboCop: Rogue City, the story-driven, first-person action game. Become the iconic character who is part man, part machine and all hero available today on PlayStation®5, Xbox Series X|S, Steam and Epic Games Store.

Created by development studio Teyon and video game publisher NACON in collaboration with Metro Goldwyn Mayer (MGM), RoboCop: Rogue City puts you in the cybernetic body of Alex Murphy / RoboCop as you attempt to bring justice to the dangerous, crime-ridden streets of Old Detroit.

Peter Weller, the original RoboCop actor, reprises his iconic role for the first time in over 30 years for RoboCop: Rogue City, in an original story taking place between the RoboCop 2 and 3 films.

Watch the RoboCop: Rogue City Launch Trailer: PEGI UK | ESRB

“Somewhere There is a Crime Happening.”

Explore open areas and complete your objectives according to your own sense of justice. Finding evidence, interrogation and maintaining public order are just some of your daily tasks as a police officer. But don't take decisions lightly; your choices can determine the fate of citizens and the result of your mission.
 

“Come Quietly, or There Will Be…Trouble.”

Armed with your trusty Auto 9 or one of the other 20 weapons available, investigative skills, built-in scanner and unlockable abilities, you will fight forces seeking to destroy the city you call home in an all new first-person, explosive hunt for the truth.
 

“They’ll Fix You… They Fix Everything.”

RoboCop’s abilities enhance according to your playing style as your adventure progresses, with light RPG features, a skills tree, and extensive progression system. Not forgetting RoboCop’s cyborg strength that enemies fear in melee range and using the environment and surroundings to your advantage, giving a real sense of RoboCop’s power.
 

“Your Move, Creep.”

The city of Detroit has been hit by a series of crimes, and a new enemy is rising and threatening public order. RoboCop blasts into action, investigating a shady project, with the game providing a big comeback for iconic characters, such as your faithful partner, Anne Lewis, Sergeant Warren Reed and ED-209, RoboCop’s robot rival.
 

RoboCop: Rogue City is now available on PlayStation®5, Xbox Series X|S, Steam and Epic Games Store.

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Check out all NACON games and accessories on nacongaming.com
 

About NACON

NACON is a company of the BIGBEN Group founded in 2019 to optimize its know-how through strong synergies in the video game market. By bringing together its 16 development studios, the publishing of AA video games, the design and distribution of premium gaming devices, NACON focuses 30 years of expertise at the service of players. https://www.nacongaming.com/

About MGM

Metro Goldwyn Mayer (MGM), an Amazon Company, is a leading entertainment company focused on the production and global distribution of film and television content across all platforms.  The company owns one of the world’s deepest libraries of premium film and television series, as well as the premium commercial free pay television network MGM+ U.S., which is available domestically via cable, satellite, telco and digital distributors. MGM+ International, an on-demand service, delivers the best of MGM’s rich catalogue of movies and series to an international audience, and is available in 25 countries across Europe, Australia, Asia, Latin America, and Canada. MGM also owns unscripted production companies Big Fish Entertainment and Evolution Media. For more information, visit www.mgm.com.

ROBOCOP – ROBOCOP 3 © 1987-1992 Orion Pictures Corporation. ROBOCOP: ROGUE CITY © 2023 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. ROBOCOP & ROBOCOP: ROGUE CITY are trademarks of Orion Pictures Corporation. All Rights Reserved

Article by: Susan N.

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Monster Truck Championship - PS5 Review

Monster Truck Championship by developer Teyon and publishers Bigben Interactive, Maximum Games—Sony Playstation 5 Review written by Nick with a copy provided by the publisher.

Estimated reading time: 7 minutes

Monster Truck Championship is a surprisingly accessible game where it pays to smash into things as you zip around tracks and large arenas filled with obstacles. It has a strange mix of arcade action with simulator settings that allow you to start racing immediately or dig into the many different options you can use to tweak your experience. Monster Truck Championship may not be the deepest racing game out there, but fans of the genre should still find plenty to enjoy here.

Having already released on consoles and PC several months ago, Monster Truck Championship is now getting a nex-gen update. With it comes higher resolutions and smoother frames-per-second, though in terms of content you’re still getting the same options as you did on the prior platforms. To that end, there are quite a few different circuits (over two dozen), plenty of vehicles (over a dozen) and a handful of different events to take part in as well s both single player and online multiplayer modes. All of this variety is certainly welcome, as one of Monster Truck Championship’s greatest strengths is also one of its more notable weaknesses.
 

Many racing games can be difficult to get the hang of, and I honestly expected Monster Truck Championship to be among those. The very nature and shape of these tall vehicles makes them handle quite differently than sleeker, track-ready racing cars. The other huge difference is now the steering works, as most racing games only have you controlling your front wheels, but Monster Truck Championship sees you using the left stick for your front wheels and the right stick for your two back wheels. This makes for some interesting moments as you can turn sharply – perhaps too sharply at times – when you need to, and also can be used to help throw your truck’s substantial weight around in different ways.

This weight is actually quite important, especially in the Destruction and Freestyle events. These two events put your truck into an arena where you earn points by doing tricks and destroying smaller objects. As you might expect, in the Destruction mode, the focus is on breaking things. Running over cars, crashing through trailers, squashing traffic cones and more help you accumulate large scores while also doing tricks. Freestyle’s focus is more heavily centered on the tricks, and while you still have some objects like cars you can crush like grapes, the focus is more on getting big air with ramps and doing barrel rolls, flips and wheelies on your way to combining different tricks into high scores.
 

Race, time-trial and drag racing comprise the other three events, and those are pretty much exactly what you would expect. Go fast, go faster than your opponents. Unlike the prior two events, this is less about style and more about substance and finishing as quickly as possible. Here – especially in ‘Race’ mode, you have the AI directly obstructing you more, as opposed to the more arena-like first two modes I discussed, where you are solo and trying to simply get a higher score than everyone else. During the Race mode in particular, I found myself frequently smashing into my opponents, trying to get them out of my way, spinning them around, so I could take and keep my lead. Of course, it is very easy to find yourself spun out too – especially on turns. These are large vehicles and they lack precision turning and acceleration at times.

The career mode offers some RPG_like progression elements, from hiring members to your team to help with vehicle performance or making / saving money for events. Like many racing games, this mode allows you to earn money, which is later used to buy improved gear for your trucks or to put your own personal touches on how the vehicles look. For better and for worse, Monster Truck Championship actually feels very familiar on this front, as it is something most racing games provide. The various selections are neither the deepest nor the most shallow I have seen. For those who really do enjoy digging into the details however, there are numerous customizations you can put your truck through. These combined with the unique front / rear wheel steering give you a great deal of control over how your preferred truck handles.
 

In terms of the audio and video presentation, it’s all fine. I never felt particularly blown away by vehicle details nor environments, but I don’t recall ever thinking they were bad either. Probably my favorite visual flare is when trucks smash into one another and things start falling apart. There is an option to let this damage actually impact your truck’s performance, or you can just keep it cosmetic. Ditto the music and sound effects. I felt like the audio did its job, but never quite reached any sort of memorable status for me.

Given the somewhat unique nature of these hulking trucks, there was a bit of a learning curve as I figured out when to best barrel ahead full speed or when I needed to slow down for multiple colliding trucks or easing through turns. Most racing games just make you want to hold down the accelerator full-blast from start to finish, but that is simply not an option here as you will undoubtedly spin out of control if you follow that tactic.

Monster Truck Championship is pretty easy to pick up, despite its vehicles being quite different from most traditional racing games. The events and options are fun enough, and I thoroughly enjoyed the career mode as it provided me an opportunity to unlock more content. That being said, the production values are simply good, not great and the pacing of the larger trucks and slower events may not appeal to all fans of racing games, as some people simply want to go as fast as possible and not worry about things like tricks or damage bonuses. Monster Truck Championship is not going to be for every racing gamer out there, but I came away having enjoyed my time with it.

Score: 7.5 / 10


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Monster Truck Championship - XB1 Review

https://teyon.com/games/monster-truck-championship/Monster Truck Championship by developer Teyon and publisher Nacon—Microsoft Xbox One review written by Pierre-Yves with a copy provided by the publisher.

Estimated reading time: 5 minutes

If there's one thing that I never thought I'd find myself reviewing it would have been monster trucks. Giant incredible auto-mechanical feats set upon the destruction of anything that lay in their way, I was surprised to find myself not just destroying cars, trailers and other things, but also racing both laps and drag racing against other opponents. Large and in charge, while also being in a way chunky yet funky in their designs, Teyon and Nacon's Monster Truck Championship is definitely on the short list for surprise hit of the year.

In a very TL/DR fashion, you drive custom monster trucks and have fun. Seriously. Split between a single player and an online mode, you compete against others in order to bring home money and fame to compete in tougher and tougher challenges all while upgrading your mechanical beast.

Now there's a lot to learn here. Unlike the WRC series with it's off-road driving and navigator to help you prepare for what’s ahead, learning how to drive a monster truck was an entirely different experience. You have your throttle and your brakes which is pretty standard for anyone that has driven a car, truck or tractor. After that though, you have to worry about turning both the front and the back wheels depending on the curves in the track or you'll often find yourself pulling a 180 and going the wrong way. Sounds easy enough but it took losing a few championships to get it right.

From there though? You then get to learn how to do donuts, reverse donuts, wheelies, aerial flips, barrel rolls and somersaults all while not trying to crash, break your truck, or land on your back like a turtle unable to get up. Body work, engine, tires, suspension and your gear shifting for speed are all required to pull this off and the more damage you do by doing it wrong, the harder the rest will be. As it’s my only comparison, like in Tony Hawk Pro Skater… either 2 or 3 WAY back in the day, if you want to win the freestyling you’re going to have to string tricks together to get multipliers making what you’re doing worth it especially if you want to take first place.

It honestly didn’t take me long to get into things but at the same time I think it had to deal a bit with how accessible Monster Truck Championship is. The controls are not overly complicated even with two sets of wheels to control. You have your gas, your breaks, and otherwise? You hit the ramps or slopes at various speeds using your gas or your breaks to essentially make your giant truck dance a destructive dance all while racing or freestyling your way through the competitions.

On that note, only helping to ease yourself into it, races are generally only a few minutes a piece. Drag Racing is over in less than a dozen seconds win or lose. Win three and the victory is yours. Lose once, and you get as many points as you’ve accumulated for that part of the championship. Like, Mario Kart for example, just because you lost on position doesn’t mean that you’ve lost it all. My first few victories came from the Drag Racing and Free Styling until I finally understood how to properly race and hit all of the corners while racing and not finding myself fully turned around. I mean it still happens but I can hit reverse fast enough and sometimes use someone behind me to crash into me and give me a boost forward while slowing them down. It’s not the cleanest method… but it works.

The menus are also pretty easy. You can join championships, you can head into your garage or you can go and hire staff to help out. Starting with only two slots, you’ll soon be hiring or replacing Managers and Mechanics in order to give you more of an edge. While they cost money to hire, some will also be taking a cut of your earnings to help maintain your gear or to promote you. It’s possible to net a zero on your staff but as time moves on, the bonuses they provide you are well worth the cut into your earnings even if new parts are expensive as hell, you’re only as good as your staff and your mechanical beast.

Summary

So overall, Teyon and Nacon’s Monster Truck Championship is a lot of fun. The controls make it rather easy to get into and with how short the championships are, it’s easy to play a few in between a variety of scenarios such as before or after dinner or while waiting for laundry to be done. The boring adult stuff that we all have to take care of. Want to play longer than that though? There’s no shortage of challenges both online against other players or offline against the CPU putting this probably into my surprise hit of the year for CGR’s 2020 Games of the Year!

Score: 8.25 / 10

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