Crime Boss: Rockay City

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Crime Boss: Rockay City
Unreal Engine 4
Platform(s)
Release
28 March 2023
  • Windows
    • WW: 28 March 2023
  • PS5, Xbox Series X/S
    • WW: 15 June 2023
Genre(s)First-person shooter
Mode(s)Single-player, multiplayer

Crime Boss: Rockay City is a 2023 cooperative first-person shooter video game developed by Ingame Studios and published by 505 Games. The player assembles a team of criminals and is sent on missions to infiltrate, steal, and defeat enemies in shooter gameplay. The game features a cast of prominent actors including Michael Madsen, Chuck Norris, Danny Trejo, Danny Glover, Michael Rooker, Kim Basinger, Vanilla Ice, and Damion Poitier.

The game was initially released for

Xbox Series X/S
on 15 June 2023. It received mixed reviews from critics.

Gameplay

Crime Boss is focused around missions undertaken by teams of four criminals. The player controls one of the criminals and cooperates with either other players or AI-controlled teammates to pull off heists in a first-person perspective. The gameplay has frequently been compared to the Payday series of games. The players need to collect enough loot from the target (banks, trucks, jewelry stores, etc.), but the longer they take, the greater the likelihood of police reinforcements arriving.

There are several ways that the missions are set up. The simplest option is as quick play one-ofs. There are also six mini-campaigns of three missions chained in a row with a loose connecting story for each called "Urban Legends". There is a single-player campaign with roguelike elements where the player attempts to expand their territory across Rockay City after the previous leader of the underground dies. The player allocates gang members to fight turf wars, buys new weapons, and goes on missions to attempt to take new territory—but if the player character dies in a mission, their quest to become Crime Boss is over. In the same way, hired crew members who die or are arrested on missions are also lost forever.

The feel of the game is consciously imitative of 1990s crime movies such as Heat.[1] Rockay City itself is set in a Florida reminiscent of Miami Vice.[2]

Development

Crime Boss is the first game produced by Ingame Studios, a new developer of around 70 employees based in

Brno, Czech Republic.[3]

The game released in late March 2023 exclusively to the Epic Games Store for PC.[2]

Reception

The PC and XBox Series X/S versions of Crime Boss: Rockay City received "mixed or average" reviews, while the PS5 version received "generally unfavorable" reviews according to review aggregator website Metacritic.[4] Metacritic listed the PlayStation 5 version the sixth worst game of 2023.[9]

Many of the reviews wrote that most of the hired voice cast, despite their fame in movies, put in underwhelming performances. Another complaint common to most reviews was that the stealth system to the game was overly finnicky and not well-supported, with the game eventually prompting players to get to the shooting regardless of how carefully an attempt at a stealthy approach was made. Alice Bell of

Steam release as a potential reason why.[12]

References

  1. ^ O'Reilly, PJ (June 21, 2023). "Crime Boss: Rockay City Review". Pure XBox. Retrieved July 3, 2023.
  2. ^ a b c Wells, Cory (April 1, 2023). "Review: Crime Boss: Rockay City". Hardcore Gamer. Retrieved April 27, 2023.
  3. ^ "Ingame Studios". ingamestudios.com.
  4. ^ a b c d
  5. ^ "'Crime Boss: Rockay City' review: Take me down to the Rockay City". NME. 31 March 2023.
  6. ^ "Crime Boss: Rockay City Review". 6 April 2023.
  7. ^ "Crime Boss: Rockay City Review - the City That Sleeps". Game Informer.
  8. ^ "Crime Boss: Rockay City review: Body Count has entered the residence". 28 March 2023.
  9. ^ Dietz, Jason (19 December 2023). "The Worst Videogames of 2023 - #6: Crime Boss: Rockay City". Metacritic. Fandom. Retrieved 19 December 2023.
  10. ^ Bell, Alice (March 28, 2023). "Crime Boss: Rockay City review: a baffling and incoherent Paydaylike". Rock Paper Shotgun. Retrieved April 27, 2023.
  11. ^ LeBlanc, Wesley (March 29, 2023). "Crime Boss: Rockay City Review: The City That Sleeps". Game Informer. Retrieved April 27, 2023.
  12. ^ Plunkett, Luke (April 26, 2023). "Crime Boss: Rockay City Is So Bad The Culture Has Rejected It Entirely". Kotaku. Retrieved April 27, 2023.

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