Crime Boss: Rockay City

 PlayStation 5
User Score
3.4

Generally unfavorable reviews- based on 10 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2 out of 10
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 10
  3. Negative: 7 out of 10

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  1. DAXTERSTARSRIBA
    Jul 15, 2023
    1
    This has to be hands down the worse video game I’ve played in many years. Story, makes zero sense. Pacing makes zero sense. Game flow, levelling, and unlockables are painfully slow and make zero sense. The difficulty is unbalanced and mostly unfair and insane. It’s easy to get flanked, overwhelmed and out gunned. In Payday you could lock onto a target, pick it off, then quickly move to theThis has to be hands down the worse video game I’ve played in many years. Story, makes zero sense. Pacing makes zero sense. Game flow, levelling, and unlockables are painfully slow and make zero sense. The difficulty is unbalanced and mostly unfair and insane. It’s easy to get flanked, overwhelmed and out gunned. In Payday you could lock onto a target, pick it off, then quickly move to the next. Here, you’re constantly swarmed with little chance at defending yourself. Glitches and bugs happen often, you’ll get stuck on scenery, find yourself inexplicably unarmed, hit by unseen projectiles, and even—experience instant sudden death for absolutely no apparent reason. It was the latter that made me finally uninstall the game after a couple of painstaking hours of trying to give it a chance.

    The game is a complete and utter mess. From the UI, to the character animations, the clunky and unreliable controls it’s literally horrible in every way imaginable. Even the voice performances from the cast are utterly horrendous. The actors sound either drunk, high, or both, at best sound like they’ve phoned in their voice lines from a phone box whilst reading their lines from an email. There’s no depth, emotion or even any enthusiasm whatsoever. Michael Madsen particularly sounds absolutely wrecked, most of the writing is just cringeworthy and cheesy, it doesn’t even come across as funny or satirical.

    I’d give the game a score of one for including a cast of famous actors. However their inclusion is utterly wasted and adds literally nothing to the experience. The graphics are mild, bland, surprisingly washed out for a neon metropolis setting. I wouldn’t even pick this game up out of curiosity, it’s a complete waste of time and money.    … Expand
  2. Halfpint82
    Jul 16, 2023
    2
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Game feels like a 360 game it sucks. It moves sluggish and the story is weak.… Expand
  3. Danny_UK
    Sep 6, 2023
    7
    I don't get the hate for this game. I really quite enjoyed it. You work your way up the crime ladder by completing lots of different missions. You have gang and terf wars. You have to take control of terf and also defend it. You do this by hiring a crew and gunning down waves of enemies. Some are harder than others. You have to fund all your operations by completing various kinds ofI don't get the hate for this game. I really quite enjoyed it. You work your way up the crime ladder by completing lots of different missions. You have gang and terf wars. You have to take control of terf and also defend it. You do this by hiring a crew and gunning down waves of enemies. Some are harder than others. You have to fund all your operations by completing various kinds of heists. They can be robbing shopping malls, armoured trucks, crashed convoys, rob gang warehouses etc. And the maps change so it's not the same each time you play. For example, the map layout can change. Security cameras, NPC's, ladders and things can appear in different locations each time you play. Or you can start from a different place on the map, and your getaway van will also appear at different parts of the map. It's a good way of changing it up a bit and adding a challenge. Then once you complete these smaller heists you use the money to fund bigger heists in the story missions, hire crew, pay off enemy gangs from attacking your terf for a set time, upgrade your office etc. The best part is the big story heists. These a good size and are fun to play. You can tackle them all guns blazing or go down the stealth road, it's up to you. You can go straight in to these heists or buy intel and equipment to make them play out differently. They are good fun. Some of the crew you come across have their own story missions. They can take you all over the world and are a bit Call Of Duty like in nature. You can choose to play these, or you can just leave them to expire. Some of the missions were really fun. You can also upgrade your crew and select thier weapon loadouts. It's set in the early 90s and has a Hollywood cast from the 90s, so it feels very nostalgic if you were around in that time and love a good 90s action film. Robbing a tech shop and they have VHS recorders and tapes and scary leads for sale on the shelves have me nostalgic tingles. The cast is great but some of the voice acting is pretty bad, which is surprising considering the cast is made up of Hollywood actors. It's as if the developers got Michael Madsen to say stuff without any context sometimes. Kim Basinger is very good in it. The Story is a bit random and you should just leave your brain at the door and enjoy a bit of mindless early 90s action. The soundtrack is pretty good. It has songs from the early 90s in there from Bon Jovi and Freestyle MCs and others. Graphically it's not the best and not the worst. It reminds me of somewhere between Far Cry 5 and 6 graphically. Gunplay feels nice and meaty. When you shoot the enemy the weapons feel impactful and enemy's spray blood everywhere. Challenge wise it can be very challenging. It can overwhelm you with loads of enemies from different angles and some are tougher than others. You have normal cops and gang members, SWAT, heavy SWAT with armour and shields, snipers, and heavy gang members. Nothing is too bullet sponge, I think it's just about right, they can just overwhelm you at times. And if you die in the main missions you start over on day 1 again. So, yeah. There is a lot of variety here and lots to see and do. Some of the smaller prep work like taking and defending territories can get a bit stale from time to time, but the heists are all pretty fun to play. It's fun working out the best ways to complete and them and the maps changing each time add variety and replayability to the game.… Expand
  4. OnlyOneHere
    Aug 31, 2023
    0
    This game is a steaming pile of garbage. The greedy developers clearly didn't even want to develop a game. This game was just an excuse for the developers to meet and greet their favorite actors. Despite all these successful Hollywood veterans, the voice acting is horrible. You'd think we get at least decent voice acting with such a cast, but it's obvious these starstruck developers rushedThis game is a steaming pile of garbage. The greedy developers clearly didn't even want to develop a game. This game was just an excuse for the developers to meet and greet their favorite actors. Despite all these successful Hollywood veterans, the voice acting is horrible. You'd think we get at least decent voice acting with such a cast, but it's obvious these starstruck developers rushed them so they can go back to partying with these celebrities. That's all these lazy and greedy developers want to do these days, they don't want to work. The gameplay is boring and repetitive. The physics are trash. Michael Madsen makes too many cringeworthy faces in the cutscenes.

    The co-op multiplayer is a piece of garbage. The AI is incredibly stupid. There are clipping issues. The shooting mechanics are terrible. When I grab jewelry and silver bars, the protagonist's hand magically vaccums those items. My hands were about 14 inches away from the store doors, and somehow it magically opened. What are the protagonist's hands made off, magnet? The missions are lazily designed. The controls are bad. I don't recommend this game at all, unless you want to support laziness.    … Expand
  5. ayazovic
    Aug 6, 2023
    3
    wait for the 3.0 update. it needs more polish and content. it still has potential tbh.
  6. OhNoItsSenpai
    Sep 11, 2023
    3
    There appears to be a fun campy game here. The idea is unfortunately where the fun ends however, as the game really doesn't run on the PS5. I had three crashes and several cut scenes that just weren't playing as I attempted the game. So many of the stages are simple repeats, and you'll find yourself doing the same thing on those maps over and over again. That I could deal with if it wasn'tThere appears to be a fun campy game here. The idea is unfortunately where the fun ends however, as the game really doesn't run on the PS5. I had three crashes and several cut scenes that just weren't playing as I attempted the game. So many of the stages are simple repeats, and you'll find yourself doing the same thing on those maps over and over again. That I could deal with if it wasn't for the gun play. Often times the pistol, or a single rifle is your only viable weapon as ever other weapon has so much drift you will never hit your opponents. Add that with the fact that the game is brutally hard, fighting at minimum 12 swarms of gangsters, or at minimum three cops that spawned from anywhere on the map. You're expected to level up and die and restart constantly until you get one good run, which isn't the worse thing in the world, but the main issue with that is the difficulty keeps ramping up alongside you, so at no point does anything ever get more manageable.… Expand
  7. Skec9hr
    Jul 21, 2023
    10
    Gioco pauroso assurdo innovativo, simulativo ricco di citazioni. Grafica buona pochi bug un bel online da aggiornare col tempo.

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#75 Most Discussed PlayStation 5 Game of 2023

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Metascore
47

Generally unfavorable reviews - based on 9 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1 out of 9
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 9
  3. Negative: 6 out of 9
  1. PlayStation Country
    Jul 8, 2025
    80
    Crime Boss: Rockay City surprised us. As unheralded as it was, this is a great game that does stealth and action equally well. The setting, the missions and the vibe of it felt a bit like playing a really good Xbox 360 game. And that means something now that most games are open-world borefests.
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  2. IGN Adria
    Sep 15, 2023
    40
    All in all, you have a really bad shooter with even worse acting, non-existent mission variations, bugs that have been around for over half a year, and a ton of other things that will put you off ever starting this game again - you could say that it's “criminally bad” (pun intended).
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  3. PLAY
    Sep 6, 2023
    50
    Lacklustre if played solo, but if you can reliably scrape together a squad of friends for online play the budget asking price isn’t a complete robbery. [Issue#30, p.88]
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