![]() ![]() The solution to one of these problems is, of course, to play cooperatively, but as we all know, finding and scheduling a play session with three friends isn't always the easiest thing to arrange.Crime Boss: Rockay City is a lot of things. The police do at least level the playing field a bit by attacking you in an unbelievably predictable formation that requires very little thinking and strategy to overcome. If you intend to play solo, just know that you will need to bark orders at your squad to stop them from walking out into the street to get gunned down by police, and that you will have to tell them to do anything that requires a bit of initiative. But just because it has a rather striking presentation and works well at a fundamental performance level doesn't change the fact that certain aspects, like the AI, are quite frankly atrocious. Still, the game seemed to play well on my PC (RTX 3090 and 11th Gen i9 CPU), with the title holding a solid and fluid frame rate while playing on the maximum graphical settings. ![]() The narrative is also unmemorable and flat and if the gameplay loop of gunning down cops, filling bags with drugs, gems, gold and cash, and then transporting them to an exit vehicle (which I did find fun for the four days I have had to review the game) doesn't grab you, then Crime Boss: Rockay City doesn't really have anything else whatsoever to hold your attention and entertain. Add to this Kim Basinger's Casey who simply exists to be eye-candy and to sexualise the game, the rival bosses like Vanilla Ice and Danny Trejo who have very little impact on the story whatsoever, and then worst of all, Chuck Norris' Sheriff, which is a character that really does feel like Norris put 10% effort into it, as the lines are delivered robotically and about as dull as they can get - granted the dialogue is pretty horrible itself, so it's not like he has much to let down here. I'm a huge fan of Michael Rooker but his character, Touchdown, is such a caricature that it becomes tiring to deal with him, as he speaks exclusively in American football rhetoric and metaphors, and when I say exclusively, I really do mean it. To many, the star-studded cast of Crime Boss: Rockay City is probably its biggest draw, but with that comes a lot of disappointment, as some of the characters are just exhausting. It all combines so that you can get lost in the campaign, even if the voice acting, characters, and narrative does it's best to dissuade you. ![]() The player choices add to this by allowing you to decide who you recruit, which turf you attack, which weapons you own, which job to take next, which assets to buy to increase your wealth and reputation, and a whole slew of other things that make being a boss more exciting. As you can't let boss Baker die on a mission as the game will be over and you'll have to start from scratch, there is gravity to your choices, even if the roguelike nature does make the game easier as you continue to play (that being said, I almost beat the game on the first run and only lost due to getting greedy when robbing a jewellery store, which shows just how pathetic the AI and challenge is). ![]() This is where you will spend most of your time in the game, and thankfully, the roguelike nature and the choice suite does at least keep things interesting here. You don't have multiple ways to tackle a job, it's very linear in how things play out, and the stealth systems are so badly adapted that it is near impossible to do a job without all hell breaking loose.īut anyway, the campaign. Why? Because (as it tells you many times) Crime Boss is not a heisting game and therefore lacks the options of a heisting title like Payday. The game will tell you that you need to plan and be smart about your heisting, but running in guns blazing and leaving a trail of bodies is just as effective, and is actually far easier than attempting to plan something out. In terms of how this all works in practice, Crime Boss: Rockay City is essentially just a first-person action shooter. The gameplay essentially revolves around completing robbery jobs to fund your empire, while Michael Rooker's Touchdown does the dirty work of claiming and defending territory across the city. Set in a 90s Miami-like city called Rockay City, the idea of this game is to take up the mantle of Michael Madsen's criminal protagonist Travis Baker, as he wages war on the rival gang bosses of the sun-drenched metropolis, all with some help from friends like Kim Basinger's Casey and Danny Glover's Gloves, and while evading police and law enforcement headed up by Chuck Norris' Sheriff Norris. ![]()
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