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Weaving in and out of cover, Crime Boss demands that you and your squad wipe out the goons in the mission area and then steal their stash as quickly as possible. Once you’re into the mission proper, the bullets start flying and you begin racing the clock in a familiar-feeling wave-based shooter. You can of course, put stealth aside entirely and run in guns blazing – It’s what Vanilla ice would want. From a luxury yacht to a beachfront club, each locale required different approaches in order to sneak in undetected. As you’re readying up in the lobby, a smidgen of tactics reveal themselves: will you opt to go in with a submachine gun like your partner, or mix it up with a team of half shotguns, half SMG? Once the mission begins, you and your crew are tasked with infiltrating the goon-filled mission area however you see fit.

Players instead choose an avatar from a selection of distinctly non-Hollywood character models, each sporting unique weapons and equipment. While famous faces plan your heists, they leave the actual hard work to the more disposable-looking help. Once you get into Urban Legends’ actual heists, that star power is nowhere to be seen.

Popping up in uninspiring cutscenes that segue into each mission, these 90s legends gather around a desk and point at objective markers, while half-heartedly saying things like “he’s a real tough motherfucker” and “there’s only one way to do this – the right way!”. When you spend this much cash on securing massive names, they naturally dominate the conversation, yet in the mode I play, these stars are little more than between-act set dressing. Jumping into the Urban Legends mode with three other gun-toting newbies, I was surprised by how little impact the undeniably glitzy cast had. While I was most intrigued to play this utterly bizarre celeb-filled story, my demo instead had me dive into some drug-nabbing co-op heists. The problem? I didn’t actually get to see any of it.

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Throughout this story-led mode, PR promised showdowns against Danny Trejo and a series of other inevitably celebrity-voiced gang bosses. Precision, however, is supposedly key – as the more you botch missions, the more evidence you’ll leave behind for old Norris to use against you. Competing against sheriff Norris ( played by, yes, Chuck Norris) your aim is to take over the city by successfully executing a series of murky missions. In the star attraction, Baker’s Battle, players are put into the shoes of Madsen’s Travis Baker.

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I’m told that the full release of Crime Boss is split into three distinct modes – the Michael Madsen-starring single-player campaign Baker’s Battle, brief pick-up and play co-op missions called Crime Time, and the longer-lasting ‘story-led’ heists of Urban Legends.Ĭrime Boss: Rockay City.

It’s in this chaotic co-op spirit that I am entered into the wacky world of Rockay City.

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Littered with ‘90s action movie tropes, Crime Boss: Rockay City is all about getting a criminal crew together, shooting some goons and scoring some loot. At its heart, this 505-published shooter is a multiplayer merc sim. While trailers depict this ‘90s set heist caper as a first-person single-player GTA-alike, the reality is far closer to a more colourful Payday. It turns out, Rockay City is very real – and I blasted my way through two crime-filled hours of it last week. READ MORE: Best FPS games: what’s the best shooter you can play in 2023?.

As part of a stream aired at 2am UK time – hosted by an out-of-his-depth Al Pacino and slowed by a God Of War actor seemingly attempting a filibuster – I was beginning to wonder if I’d dreamed the entire thing.

Revealed during Geoff Keighley’s gaming extravaganza – The Game Awards – this blink-and-you’d-miss-it debut depicted a GTA-esque shooter starring Michael Madsen, Danny Glover, Kim Basinger and er, Vanilla Ice. When the ridiculously named Crime Boss: Rockay Citywas announced last December, I wasn’t entirely convinced that it actually happened.

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