Robocop: Rogue City expandalone Unfinished Business feels like The Raid: The Video Game, and I'd buy that for more than a dollar

Robocop: Rogue City was easily one of my favourite games of 2023. It was a perfectly presented love letter to the Robocop franchise. One that paid particular homage to the dick shooting, squib-tastic, satire strewn Paul Verhoeven original in all of its excessively gory, 80’s action movie glory.

Robocop: Rogue City – Unfinished BusinessDeveloper: TeyonPublisher: NaconPlatform: Played on PS5Availability: Out now on PC (Steam), PS5, Xbox Series X/S

As a Robocop fan, I loved the way the development team recreated iconic locations like the Metro West station, or brought classic characters like Officer Lewis and The Old Man back to life. But as a fan of turn-your-brain-off video games, I also enjoyed the fact that you could make both props and people explode in a variety of incredibly cool ways. Oh, and of course the utterly hilarious, crotch holding, knee buckling, high pitched wail of a death animation that triggered whenever you shot a man in the dick. That never got boring.

And, I’m happy to tell you that it’s still not boring because all that gratuitous penis punishment is back (along with all the other stuff that made Rogue City great, of course) in Robocop: Rogue City – Unfinished Business. This is a standalone spin-off with a budget price that is absolutely, definitely not DLC (developer Teyon was very firm about that) and therefore does not need you to own the original game in order for it to be playable. Even though you absolutely should own it based on everything I just told you in the first two paragraphs. Including the dick shooting. Obvs.

Unfinished Business, however, is a loving tribute not only to the Robocop movies of old, but also to a pair of modern action films, the incredibly excellent Dredd and The Raid. These movies are so excellent in fact that, if you were to tell me you’d never seen them, I would do a very loud tut and slag you off to all my mates behind your back. Just like in Dredd and The Raid, in Unfinished Business, Robocop must make his way (using extreme violence) to the top of a ramshackle residential complex known as the OmniTower, which was once home to Old Detroit’s civilians but has now been seized by an army of mercenaries.