RoboCop: Rogue City gameplay trailer gives a new September release date

Stefan L 10/03/23 1 Comment

Nacon and developer Teyon have released a new gameplay trailer for RoboCop: Rogue City, which gives us a new September 2023 release window for the cyborg cop ’em up. The game is coming to PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S and PC.

Previously slated for a June 2023 release, RoboCop: Rogue City has been delayed by around three months to September, giving Teyon a bit more time to polish and refine their latest 80’s movie action game. It also seems that they’ve completely dropped the Nintendo Switch release, with no mention of that platform made alongside this new trailer.

The gameplay overview gives a quick look at the kinds of cop action you’ll be expecting to get up to, as Murphy goes on patrol in Old Detroit. Following up on reports of drug dealing in an arcade, he first needs to get corroborating evidence for a warrant to be issues so he can make his entry and arrests.

At least, arrests are probably the plan, but the dealer gang doesn’t want to go down without a fight. There’s plenty of green wireframe overlays as RoboCop targets the gangsters, we see an auto-repair function, slow motion, and a head explosion or two.

Also, RoboCop can hand out parking tickets.

RoboCop: Rogue City is in development by Teyon, the studio behind games like Terminator: Resistance and Monster Truck Championship. They’ve got another 80s action movie franchise to adapt, and we’re hoping things come together a bit more neatly this time around. When Terminator: Resistance released at the end of 2019, it was in a rather sorry state – just see our Terminator: Resistance review – but they sought to turn it around to a certain extent with a significant patch to improve the AI in the game.

There was also Terminator: Resistance Enhanced for the new generation of consoles and Annihilation Line DLC. Then again, that might not move the needle all that much. In our DLC review, we wrote: “Annihilation Line is a good DLC expansion, but will do nothing to change your mind about Terminator: Resistance. If you enjoyed the setting and the gunplay then there is more here to get stuck into, but there is no deviation from the core gameplay to be found. Not quite ‘I’ll be back’, but neither is it ‘Hasta la Vista’.”