It sounds simple enough, but like Scottish poet Robert Burns once wrote, “The best laid plans of mice and men often go awry.” In Crime Boss' case, the wheels came off the carriage almost immediately.
In the same vein as Payday (or Kane & Lynch if you're nasty), you build a team of up to four crooks, each with their own strengths and weaknesses, and set out to loot a location before the cops squash the mission.
Heists are the game's main draw, and they're what you'll do for 90 percent of your Rockay City stay. If you thought Returnal’s loops were rough, try dying 26 days into your campaign. If Baker dies, you restart at square one, only keeping the permanent upgrades earned by leveling your Boss level. Every day, Baker must decide to defend his turf or attack others using his soldiers, order teams to pull heists around the city, or manage his money flow to keep the lights on and thugs paid. As it turns out, the single-player campaign is a roguelike, marbled with light strategy elements. To its credit, the shooter has interesting ideas. Ironically, it sets the expectations for Rockay City almost perfectly-a runny soup of random cut scenes, characters, and occurrences, haphazardly tied together by a plot about as coherent as a ChatGPT summary of Goodfellas. Make no mistake, this is one the sloppiest openings I've seen in a video game-even worse than Forspoken’s corny opening. It also features an all-time awful tutorial that creates a cacophony of visual noise that feels like it's meant to distract you from the poorly directed cutscenes and haphazard editing. I certainly felt under the influence in the game's opening moments, as Crime Boss jumped from fourth-wall-breaking scenes to an intense bank robbery to a shootout over a drug payload. Debauchery lies at the heart of Rockay City, a fictional Florida location where crime happens all the time and drugs run like water. “Live fast, die young, leave a good-looking corpse,” quipped a gravelly voiced Travis Baker, portrayed by de-aged actor Michael Madsen.
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It has hokey dialogue, boring missions, atrocious AI, and a bank vault full of glitches, bugs, and more than a few baffling decisions that stomp out potential fun. Although you might expect the game to be rife with an Expendables-like B-movie quality, Crime Boss: Rockay City stumbles at almost every turn.
Making its way to PlayStation 5 after a muted debut as an Epic Game Store exclusive, the $39.99 shooter takes Payday’s heist-focused gameplay and sets it in the early 1990s with a cast of Hollywood actors pulled straight from the era.
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