![]() Every character is crap, which means this game has no real place to go in terms of having somebody to root for. While you may have seen a 90’s version of Michael Madsen doing a rather atypical version of himself in the trailers, it’s somehow even worse in the actual game. Turning attention to the game’s primary characters, they’re all garbage. Rockay City is turning up to the Superbowl with a golf ball. Films were cool as f**k in the 90’s, and Rockay City takes that ball and runs with it only to fumble before it hits the halfway line. It was Tarantino’s era, we were just living in it. Confidential poster (we were way into the 2000’s before she played Eminem’s trailer bound Mum in 8 Mile) and Chuck Norris being, well, Chuck Norris. Blonde donning every college wall, Kim Basinger stopping traffic with that L.A. You couldn’t move without seeing Michael Madsen’s Mr. It was also chock-full of Chuck Norris knock off movies about as gloriously camp as Rockay City itself. If you were American it was all Cadillac’s, bleached blonde hair and learning who Dido was. It was a hell of a time to grow up in, if you were a pasty English boy like me. Dreams could only get better, football was coming home, politicians actually acted like politicians (for the most part) and Len knew it was up for them if you stole their sunshine. ![]() ![]() The magical era where anything was possible. And yet, if the game is very, very lucky, it might just hit that sweet spot in your 80/90’s loving heart. It’s the stupidest game of the year with no real redeeming features that I can recall. I knew from the off it was never going to be good but damn it if I didn’t want to blast my way through this with the biggest smile on my face. Rockay City is a lot of things, an absolute waste of a frankly ridiculous cast, a frankly terrible PayDay clone and a brilliant idea executed dreadfully. In this world of unhinged nostalgia persistently paraded out before us we can’t help but get suckered into this 90’s action b-movie made entirely in your own kick-ass imagination. As soon as the trailer for Crime Boss: Rockay City landed in our laps you wanted to play it. For our full review policy, please go here.Ĭome on, admit it. It’s still a bad game, it’s just a little bit more fun when you have your mates to share in the mediocrity.Ĭrime Boss: Rockay City is now available on PS5 (reviewed), Xbox Series and PC.ĭisclaimer: In order to complete this review, we were provided with multiple codes to test out the full game and the co-op modes. The story is still rubbish, the gunplay remains poor and the levels are too short to really get invested in. So whilst there’s not an awful lot of changes, the console versions of ‘Rockay Citaayyy’ (listen to the pod for context) are a marked improvement on the PC version, but it’s not saying an awful lot. In most co-op games of course this is always the case, so it’s fortunate that Crime Boss: Rockay City benefits from this as if you and your buddies have copies of the game, you’re definitively going to have a much better time than you ever would on your own. I managed to tear through the game with Miles, Josh, Kat and even the elusive Paul Collett, and while we all agreed it isn’t a good game, we had a ton of fun together messing up gangs, shooting up the fuzz and stealing money from innocent banks whilst we blast the place to pieces. Talking of co-op, Crime Boss is one of those games that suddenly becomes infinitely more fun when you’re tearing through the absolute madness of Rockay City with a group of friends. Thankfully in co-op mode the visuals remain consistent, it was never a game that was going to overpower the PS5 but it’s nice to see that the console versions are a significant improvement over the PC edition. At first I thought this may have been my PC, despite my specs being top draw but ergo, it was just the game after some intense research (looking on Twitter and seeing people complain about it, primarily). Namely the framerate is vastly improved and the visuals are certainly crisper. Still, the PS5 version of Crime Boss does have noticeable improvements. There’s little here that can constitute any merit from me in a review, and the below review of the PC version posted earlier this year demonstrates that you can have all the star power on earth (and I use that term very loosely) but if the fundamentals aren’t there, this is one crime that should remain behind bars. Crime Boss: Rockay City is not a good game. UPDATE: I’ve added additional paragraphs to discuss the PS5 version of Rockay City which was recently released, along with an updated score.Ĭrime Boss: Rockay City on consoles, then.
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