History VideoGame / RobocopRogueCity

* SkewedPriorities: So many examples. Detroit's MayorPain interrupts Robo's attempt to fight serious crime to send him after his niece's stolen car instead. The OCP Bank's director worries about all the financial damage the three pounds of [=C4=] explosive strapped to his chest might cause his employer if they were to detonate. OCP in general, and Becker in particular, prioritize money over ''anything'' else, no matter how stupid or morally reprehensible. And the list goes on.

* KarmaHoudini: The leader of Wendell's mercenaries basically just leaves when Wendell fails to pay him, despite the death and devastation he had his men do across Detroit, including but not limited to wholesale slaughter of people in a prison and in a hospital (staff and patients in the later case).

** The turret terminals show files that have their "created" and "last modified" dates with years ranging between '87 and '93. The one piece of Robocop media this would match is the Data East arcade game which for some reason stated the story to be taking place in 1990.

* RegeneratingHealth: A limited version of this appears -- if Robo is below 20% of health, his meter will slow recharge back to 20%. Maxing out the Vitality skill tree will allow him to regenerate up to 75% of his health.

* TortureAlwaysWorks: Subverted. Soot can be beaten up all the live long day and won't say a word, but mess with his stuff and he'll eventually talk.

** The mayoral election plotline ends this way, regardless of which canidate Robocop supports:

* NewGamePlus: Added to the game in the Janruary 2024 patch. When starting a playthrough, the player needs to select their upgrades again[[note]]Useful for those who'd want to change their original build[[/note]], but the game provides new, stronger chips for your [=PCBs=], and three new [=PCBs=] that can max out several stats each, with 6.2 providing the [[BottomlessMagazines Ammon Feeder]] perk, an additional perk for single shot firing, and possibly ''max out the remaining three stats.''

* RareCandy: The "OCP Training Disk" items, which are usually found once per mission, confer an immediate skill point for Robo to upgrade his systems with.

** The PCB circuit board minigame involves finding chips scattered throughout the game, such as in OCP Chests. Its introduction also has an engineer quipping about how valuable old OCP merchandise and appliances are for scrounging up said chips [[spoiler:which is a subtle hint at how OCP's in such dire straits that it's can't really afford to manufacture new ones]].

** Several of the minor criminals Robo arrests in the early missions of the game -- including Maurice (the laundry-loving low-level dealer), the Arcade owner and Jerry Jenkins -- appear as inmates stuck in the middle of the prison riot at the OCP Correctional Facility. Robo has to tell each them to get to safety.

** Several of the minor criminals Robo arrests in the early missions of the game -- including Maurice (the laundry-loving low-level dealer), the Arcade owner and Jerry Jenkins -- appear as inmates stuck in the middle of the prison riot at the OCP Correctional Facility. In several of these cases, Robo has to tell them to flee the immediate area.

** Several of the minor criminals Robo arrests in the early missions of the game -- including Maurice (the laundry-loving low-level dealer), the Arcade owner and Jerry Johns -- appear as inmates stuck in the middle of the prison riot at the OCP Correctional Facility. In several of these cases, Robo has to tell them to flee the immediate area.

** At the beginning of the final act, Robo must escort Dr. Blanche (and the superintendent of a hotel, and possibly a cat, if you [[PetTheDog rescued it from a burning room)]] past an attack squad of mercenaries sent by Wendell.

** For gameplay purposes, Robocop isn't as completely indestructible as he is in the films and on Normal difficulty can be brought down with several dozen pistol shots or a few dozen assault rifle shots. This can be mitigated with upgrades, with roughly double his starting durability when Armor and Vitality are fully upgraded, with the former providing additional defensive skills and the latter providing addtional health pack storage and improved auto-heal. He's still roughly as durable an old-school [=FPS=] hero like [[VideoGame/{{Doom}} Doomguy]] or [[VideoGame/HalfLife Gordon Freeman]] (which is quite tanky compared to modern [=FPS=] characters), there's abundant amount of repair kits in the field, and the [[ImperialStormtrooperMarksmanshipAcademy terrible aim]] of most enemies does give the impression that you're withstanding much more gunfire than you actually are.

* DumpStat: There's very little point in upgrading Psychology, as all it does is occasionally give you unique optional dialogue, which mostly only lets you advance quests without needing to find the correct clue (which is quite easy anyway). The level 6 skill just tells you which dialogue options will increase your Appreciation value with key characters, most of which are fairly obvious anyway, and the level 10 skill just lowers the threshold for getting the best ending for each character, which is completely unnecessary as long as you do all their related side-quests. About the only use for it is putting 2 points into it for the level 2 skill, which doubles your Public Trust and more or less ensures you get the Public Trust ending while still giving you some leeway to be a petty dick to lawbreaking citizens that annoy you or who show zero remorse for their misdemeanor actions.

* ArtisticLicensePharmacology: Alex Murphy has the option of helping Pickles by taking away the money for his next Nuke fix in hopes of helping him get clean. This is actually a terrible idea in real life and would only work if Pickles had access to a clinic to help him through withdrawal if Nuke is anything like other addictive highly substances. Hopefully, Pickles does.

* IncompetenceInc: OCP for all of its seeming invincibility is actually something of a PaperTiger. [[spoiler:It's running out of cash to the point that it can't finance it's big supervillain plots. Afterlife is running out of budget to handle the plan to make the Old Man immortal, Delta City is requiring large amounts of cost cutting as well as outright fraud, and it's products are as semi-functional as ever. Indeed, at the end, their mercs just abandon them because they aren't being paid.]]

A new criminal mastermind has appeared in Old Detroit called "The New Guy." Throwing around massive amounts of money, he has attracted many new gangs as well as caused a skyrocketing death rate among police officers with twenty-three killed since his arrival. After a gang called the Torch Heads takes over a news station to try to draw his attention, Robocop is dispatched to deal with them and becomes involved in unraveling the conspiracy behind the city's newest player.

** The classic Cobra Assault Cannon, functionally the most powerful Heavy Weapon in the game, starts getting dropped in the last couple of levels, with a free one on top of a building right near the "ED-209 Strikes Back!" mission area. The game even encourages the player to pick it up when, during the chase after Wendell through [[spoiler:the still-unfinished OCP Tower]], you'll reach a sniper nest with a free Cobra, incentivizing its usage.

** The way Murphy solves crimes and sifts through leads calls to mind how Robocop is shown to operate in [[Film/RoboCop2014 the 2014 remake]].

* GroinAttack: Shooting enemies in the groin is about the same as a headshot and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIyo-TW9Vd8&pp=ygUXcm9ib2NvcCByb2d1ZSBjaXR5IGRpY2s%3D occasionally causes them to crumple forward]] holding their now-obliterated nether regions in pain.

** This being a ''Robocop'' game (set in a CrapsackWorld version of Detroit), the ambient announcements play liberally into the satire seen in the original films. The various radio ads you hear deal with subjects such as a pharmaceutical company marketing "Snoozers", a sleeping drug for annoying kids (with one specifically chiding his father for avoid a debt collector), a mother dissuading her daughter from "going to Heaven" by telling her that their ashes can be blasted into space, and Robo himself giving a much more sarcastic/flippant response to dire situations, if chosen by the player.

** For gameplay purposes, Robocop isn't as completely indestructible as he is in the films and on Normal difficulty can be brought down with several dozen pistol shots or a few dozen assault rifle shots (although his durability can be increased with upgrades, with roughly double his starting durability when Armor and Vitality are fully upgraded). He's still roughly as durable an old-school [=FPS=] hero like [[VideoGame/{{Doom}} Doomguy]] or [[VideoGame/HalfLife Gordon Freeman]] (which is quite tanky compared to modern [=FPS=] characters), there's abundant amount of repair kits in the field, and the [[ImperialStormtrooperMarksmanshipAcademy terrible aim]] of most enemies does give the impression that you're withstanding much more gunfire than you actually are.