Crime Boss: Rockay City

Short summary: a more streamlined, more fun, over-the top Payday.

This title went under the radar before launch, with little to no marketing for it. It was also half price before launch so I wasn't expecting much of it.

Much to my surprise this game is a lot of fun. The main campaign has a roguelike nature, the individual missions are nice and short. It also has longer heists that take more time.

On top of that it has quick-play that can either be played solo, with bots or in co-op and it has urban legends, a set of stories split up in segments with significantly harder missions, for co-op, or solo with bots. No character building here, characters are assigned traits (pseudo-random) and you can upgrade their weapons and equipment.

Missions run from run-of-the-mill content to completely insane scenarios, much like the F&F franchise evolved over the years. You'll find typical stealth/stay under the radar type missions but some will throw your right into a heist-went-wrong and SWAT breathing down your neck right from the start.

All insanely fun, and there's always time to play a quick stint because most heists are fairly short. Due that it can get repetitive though and I hope the developers add more varied content in the future.

Contrary to some recent AAA titles this game is very stable and smooth and you don't need a massively expensive PC to run this.

The voice acting is a mixed bag, some of it is amazing (Madsen, Rooker), some of it is completely insane (Silver, Jupiter), which you will love or hate (I absolutely love it and get a good chuckle out of it) and some of it is terrible (Norris, Basinger). The rest (Nasara, Hielo, Gloves) are pretty decent. Think of it as playing a 90s B-movie. And no, that's not a bad thing.

Madsen and Rooker are absolutely amazing and completely over the top as their respective characters and I hope we get to see more of them in DLC/updates. I also hope we get audio for the other characters such as Dollar Dragon (Trejo) and a few others. Norris is bland, but it also fits the character and the game really well somehow.

Good points:

• Runs well and stable
• Cheap
• Amazing cast
• Quick and fun missions
• Random elements provide variety
• Cheesy and insane at moments

Things to improve:

• More/more varied side missions in campaign, or a new map.

• Different location layouts, e.g. Malls, banks, warehouses, but also new types.

• Add boss battles
• More voiced content
• More/better control over AI

The game could use some refinement and additional content, but other than that this is a very decent title for a very decent price.

Not sure why this is labeled 'worst game ever' by certain outlets, guess it's just a sign of the times/clickbait. These are the same outlets that give a 10/10 to games that folks can't even play on a decent machine due to all the bugs/issues. So make up your own mind.

Don't let that fool you, there's a very decent title underneath, just don't expect AAA levels of refinement (which is totally fine for this title).

We saw a similar motion with Terminator:Resistance that was loathed by the media/professional reviewers, but people that actually bought it really liked it. Again, make up your own mind.

Final words:

My son: "Oh, this is like Payday, but fun?" Me: "Yup"

I really appreciate this game even if I don't know what it even is who is made for and why it was created but why I know is payday Roguelike is fun.

Really big charm to the game trying to get to the end and if you die, just saying oh xxxx time to try again even if there is a little exploit. You can do when you can quit out of the game and then it start at the beginning of the mission. I only did that when I was so close to defeating the campaign.

But the graphics are really funny. I feel like I'm looking at wax statues of actors and it's really funny the dialogue sounds like half of the actors are really phoning it in Chuck Norris sound really bad .

It's just feels like we have to get this actors to get this game made, but it is fun. But it gives it a unique charm.

The sound effect have a lot of punch to them. The missions are varied enough even if it doesn't take too long before you see the same Warehouse again, but there are some really fun unique missions and characters you can get with unique missions to them, but they sad thing about them. Is you have to repeat them so I kind of don't want to recruit them.

But the gameplay is really compelling trying to get money to expand the city to become the king of it. It is really fun gameplay loop it does get very stale after a while when you play the same mission so over but by then you have seen all what the game has to offer and it is a been a good time for me it took about 15 hours to see everything and the two DLC maps included.

It is one of the perfect you know six to seven out of 10 games the ones that have gameplay and a fun idea but doesn't hit the execution to make it a masterpiece but what the heck sometimes. I want some junk food and this is it.