Kim Basinger, Danny Glover…vanilla ice cream? I thought I might have had a stroke when 505 Games unveiled their colorful multiplayer heist game Crime boss: Rockay City at The Game Awards last night. It was getting late. Everything about the trailer screamed Grand Theft Autobut it wasn’t actually an update from Rockstar Games Open world mega seller. Instead, it’s an upcoming PC game from a studio I’ve never heard of, featuring the most random direct-to-Bluray cast of Hollywood talent.
crime boss Stars Michael Madsen of Reservoir Dogs and Donnie Brasco fame as Travis Baker, a emerging Florida kingpin who tries to climb to the top of the criminal underworld through “a series of turf wars, heists, and crazy side stories.” While you might think from the trailer that this is primarily a cinematic storytelling game, crime boss is actually an online PvE shooter extravaganza where you team up with internet strangers to pull off heists like payday 2.
Aside from the big names of 90’s actors, the gameplay looks pretty generic. A modern one The black this is not. How far will the glamor of aging movie stars carry another otherwise indistinct life?service game? Check out the trailer and judge for yourself:
Danny Glover (Deadly Weapon) Rules, Kim Basinger (Batman) is iconic, Michael Rooker (Guardians of the Galaxy) is fine Danny Trejo (machete) appears in everything you pay him for, and Vanilla Ice (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Mystery of the Mud) is… sure, well, whatever. Then there’s Chuck Norris, who Game Awards host Geoff Keighely pointed out jubilantly during the livestream and features prominently in it crime boss‘ Marketing, which to be honest I’ll never have to see again.
The martial arts champion-turned-fictional Texas Ranger became a household meme in the post 9/11 attacks, but if you’ve been paying attention lately you’ll know that he’s actually a huge asshole and a right-wing maniac, who hates gays You don’t have to give it to him under any circumstances or make him one of the faces of your B-list neon noir heist game.
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How much will he or others even have crime boss? It’s difficult to say. It seems to be Ingame Studios Debut game, and it’s not mentioned anywhere on that Company website. It is published by 505 Games is “in association with Epic Games,” whatever that means, and it’s already 40 percent off if you pre-order in the next two days. It will be released exclusively on PC via the Epic Games Store on March 28, 2023, with a console version to follow later in the year. I have no idea if it’ll be any good, but it definitely wins my award for Weirdest World Premiere in 2022.
