I could've probably gotten some entertainment out of this, even with the awkward jumping and the surprise traps, but the nuke and arrest quota bullshit makes me want to split the cartridge open with a pile driver and reprogram the rom chips with a friendlier personality. It's certainly not as bad as some of the other RoboCops in that regard at least, but it's not exactly thrilling gameplay. Enemies appeared, I pressed the shoot button and they went away (they never did manage to kill me). The jumping is terrible due to the character's horizontal inertia, destroying the drugs is a puzzle made needlessly challenging by the way that you can't backtrack (and the fact that half the drugs are hidden in secret levels), and the shooting. The game is about jumping, shooting, and collecting flasks with an 'N' on them, and I didn't much enjoy doing any of it. I realise that I've only played through one and a half levels (plus a target range bonus stage) and that isn't really enough time to fairly judge a game, but I'm definitely getting the impression that RoboCop 2 is a bit shite. Now there's nothing stopping Cain using his new metal body to start an even more insidious drug empire, and soon there'll be little flasks with an 'N' on the side scattered in hard to reach places across the entire city! This is a sad day for RoboCop indeed, and indeed all of Detroit. Plus it helps that he's got enough room to lift his arm up into a proper RoboCop pose. He just looks a little bit more authentic to me, he stomps a bit more naturally.

You know, when they're lined up like this you can really tell that the top row of Robos seem to be animated in two halves, while the bottom row is barely animated at all.īut which RoboCop sprite is best? Well the giant Amiga sprite is a giant and has the most animation (plus a very shiny head), but I gotta give this to the Atari ST guy. As far as I can tell, the C64 version really is identical in gameplay to the NES game I'm playing now, with nothing obviously different about them aside from the visuals and the loading times.Įven though they're different games, I couldn't resist taking a shot of all the other RoboCops anyway.

There's six different RoboCop 2 games that I'm aware of, spread across seven different systems, but only the Commodore 64 and NES versions bare any resemblance to each other. Here's a shot of the Commodore 64 version of game for comparison. No invincibility time after taking damage in this. Incidentally the number next to the battery is my health bar, which continually ticks down when I'm being hit. Oh wow, Robo's got a purple lives counter now as well. The arrest counter has been replaced with a screaming purple face counter on this stage, so I imagine I'm supposed to be walking into people to rescue them (without accidentally shooting them). Uh, did I just enter a Mega Man level by mistake?

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