RoboCop 3 (NES) Playthrough
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- Опубліковано 2 жов 2024
- A playthrough of Ocean's 1992 license-based action game for the NES, Robocop 3.
After starring in one good NES game ( • RoboCop (NES) Playthrough ) and one thoroughly awful one ( • RoboCop 2 (NES) Playth... ), you might be wondering - did Alex Murphy get the send-off he deserved for his final appearance on Nintendo's 8-bit console?
And well, it fares about as well as the movie it was based on.
This time, instead of going with the same team that handled the trainwreck of a game that RoboCop 2 turned out to be, Ocean farmed development of RoboCop 3 out to Probe. Probe's track record was spotty - they were responsible for the Back to the Future III game that showed up on Sega's platforms - but they had at least proven that they were capable of producing decent a game with stuff like The Terminator and Mortal Kombat.
Unfortunately, RoboCop 3 on the NES was not one of their better efforts. The graphics are a huge step up from RoboCop 2's and Jeroen Tel's soundtrack is amazing (that title theme!), but a fancy presentation doesn't matter much when it's burdened with carrying such a poorly made game.
(That being said, the music really is fantastic. In case you want to hear the title theme in its entirety, I've included it at the end of the video. Jump to 14:22 to take a listen. And does the first stage tune remind anyone else of Battletoads?)
RoboCop doesn’t feel as slippery as he did in the second game, but the controls feel just as uncooperative. Most of the enemies fire as soon as they walk on-screen, so you have to duck out of the way as you return fire. The problem with this is that if you fire at an enemy while attempting to duck, RoboCop doesn’t drop like you'd expect. He slowly aims his gun at the ground and fires, leaving him wide open for attack as he wastes his shot. He also can't turn around while ducking, so when the game throws enemies at you from both sides, you're pretty much guaranteed to take several hits when you need to face the other way. The enemies' erratic fire patterns don't help much either - most of the hiding enemies will refuse to show themselves until you've helpfully lined yourself up to take a cheap hit.
Everything about it is infuriating.
The other big issue with RoboCop 3 is the utter lack of content. The four levels take just over ten minutes to finish, and here's the truly ridiculous part: once you get to the end of stage three, the game tells you that you now have to walk back. Stage four is just stage three in reverse, so there are only three unique stages, and they each last just a couple of minutes.
Remember how I mentioned that Probe made Back to the Future Part III? Yeah, RoboCop 3 is cut from very much the same cloth.
It makes me wonder, though. Was the game so poor because Probe didn't care? Or was it more that Ocean wanted it done as quickly and as cheaply as possible, quality be damned? I really don't know, but if I had to guess, I'd go with the latter.
Either way, like the movie, RoboCop 3 on the NES isn't worth your time or money. At least it stays true to the source material in that regard.
(Random afterthought: did anyone else notice how the creepy doll-looking kid sitting on RoboCop's shoulder on the title screen is holding an uzi?)
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This is why NES games were so tough. Getting good at the game was 90% of the time spent. The other 15 minutes is what you see here.
Depends on your playstyle. This one did it more like a speedun.
Remember playing the game. The music brought some nice memories.
RoboCop 3 on the NES is about as good as the movie it was based on. Ouch.
That music though. It hits you like one of Robocop's bullets.
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If you want to see bad Robocop go watch the 4 part series Robocop prime directives.
Jeroen Tel's soundtracks are uniformly awesome, Probe was lucky to have him work on so many of their projects.
I prefer RoboCop 3 than RoboCop Prime Directives. ;b
Oh man, when I read in the description, that it was Probe delivering us this one, my reaction was like “of courseee, lmao.” This is definitely one of the most Probe-looking games I’ve seen, and that didn’t necessarily mean it had to be bad since Probe have done some good games (Home Alone on Master System comes to mind). Although I agree, that Jeron’s outstanding soundtrack is about this one’s only saving throw. It’s a shame, I guess not every license game can come out as good as Konami or Sunsoft’s efforts
That song sounded like the song of a news show
You give us three minutes, we'll give you the world.
@@NintendoComplete More like you give us three minutes, we'll give you a shitty game.
@@NintendoComplete 1010 WINS baby...
A “Probe” production. A probe is never a good thing. We still love you Murphy.
Hahaha RoboCop: The Colonoscopy, The Game
@@NintendoComplete My thoughts exactly.
Playing this in the original Famicom was a freaking nightmare! Not like Batman Foverer on the SNES... But close.
This game looks like an absolute disappointment...
And yeah, I also noticed that creep lil' girl with the Uzi at the title screen alongside Robocop.
Word is, they're coming out with a new Robocop game... Hope it'll be better than this or that infamous Titus-made Robocop game!
Great job navigating this turd! They should've left the Robocop games to Data East. The 1st NES game is a masterpiece compared to the last 2.
Robocop 3 (el 4 para la mayoría de los Argentinos jaja ) lo vivia alquilando y me fascinaba la idea de controlar a robocop (tenia 8 años).. lo jugaba antes de ir al cole a la mañana y mientras me alistaba para salir dejaba de fondo la musica del intro.. sonaba de lujo en mi tv Toshiba 21 pulgadas tirado por un family Rasti SuperGame que aun conservo funcional. Saludos y que este año nuevo se venga con la mejor! un abrazo
I remember playing this game it's brutal good video
An incredible but hard game. You are amazing.
Batman(DK Returns):"Who are You behind the mask?"
Robocop:"My Friends call Me Murphy! You call Me Robocop!"
Batman(DK Returns):"That was the first!"
Ha ha ha ha ha. Good one. ;b
LOL! The title screen with Robocop holding a girl on his shoulder carrying an uzi. Now that's wild.
Today's world is wild itself.
@@user-ui7iy4vk1e It is.
That intro music teleported me back
This game was a guilty pleasure of mine, I did actually beat it back in the day, great music 👌
Not sure if you've ever played it before, but I would love you to play the SNES Waterworld game, that game's soundtrack has no right to be amazing.
Ah, I totally forgot about that one. I've played it before, but never thought to record it. I just might have to now :)
The soundtrack to that game is mind blowing, with some of those tracks going on for upwards of 7 minutes and still evolve in new ways. It’s also crazy that the Virtual Boy version, of all things, managed to port that amazing music quite well, too. I even managed to have a decent time with what I played of it, just for the sake of hearing the music. The run and gun segments are not the worst, and the diving ones are completely easy but I was probably not playing them right, lol
@@NintendoComplete The gameplay probably isn't anything special, but I love it for its OST.
Probe did a solid job with Alien 3 on the Genesis, and I will continue to defend that game until the day I die. This, however, I can't defend. If they had spent as much time on the game as they did the audio and visual presentation, this could have been a great game... unfortunately, it falls way too short.
Totally agree. I liked Alien 3 a lot, but this is trash.
I don't agree. As a person from a postsoviet county, I liked it.
This actually looks pretty fun.
I'd buy that for a dollar.
Considering that the Robocop 3 movie sat on the shelf 'til 1993 despite it being completed already, maybe the game should've done the same as well. At least TRY to fine tune it into a half-decent game.
Did you know RoboCop was remade in 2014
As questionable as this series was, in the end Robocop was made into a Space Sheriff and Japan praised him a hero
One more time a NES game that's better than the 16 bits versions
I don’t remember Nikko carrying an Uzi…
The music is better than this game deserves.
Yeaaaaaaaaah
That's it Man !
What makes almost zero sense is that jetpack fuel has been depleted during gameplay, while in the end screen, they all are evacuating by jetpack. Or is it the bulding's explosion that blasted them off so high in the sky ?
I will admit that the repair/malfunction mechanics this game has could be interesting if the rest of the game wasn't so cut-corner. Having your character start acting erratically if they take too many hits is more interesting then just a plain old life bar, but it requires good controls and level design so you have the ability to avoid enemy fire, and this game definitely doesn't have that.
One of the hardest NES games I ever played.
Wow, what a horrible ending 😂 plus, those 2 women on his back would be burnt to a crisp from his jetpack.
Music took me 30 years back...Amazing! Thank you...ahh the past wonderful times
I remember this we rented this RoboCop it was the closest thing to the arcade RoboCop that they ever had on NES when I think about it it was not really that great but it's all we had for the home consoles at that time so at moment it was awesome to us LOL
Тоже брал этого Ribocop в аренду в первый раз. У нас в России пираты назвали его RoboCop 4. Я тогда подумал: Значит есть и четвертый фильм, его надо найти.🤣
Comma’s are friend. Christ what is that paragraph.
🙂Я когда эти звуки слышу и музон у меня олд скулы сводит
Can we finally talk about the title screen ?
Thats one cluster-crash of bad design .
Why is Robocops gun so small ?
Why is his hand that holds his gun just a mess of pixel-fingers ?
Why does he have a girl/puppet on his shoulder that shoots with an uzi ?
Where did he put his right on the girl? (Okay this has to ve a hand-puppet otherwise WTF? )
This is so wrong , it doesnt reflect anything from the third movie . Thats one hell of a bad title-screen.
I think the intention was that his hand was holding her back up so that she didn’t fall backwards, but this comment made me laugh my ass off, so it doesn’t matter lmao
They even made it so that the screen transitions mess with the music. You can hear how it freezes for a bit at certain points. What a mess.
I still think it’s a horrible edit job and Robocop is holding the other gun but they just stuck the image of that little girl in front of it all to cover some mistake.
Robocop DOES what Mr Bean DON'T!!!
Commit mass murder on the streets of Detroit?
Damn, I wish I had an Ingram MAC 10 when I was that kid’s age
Nostalgic
The game playtime it takes to finish is getting shorter and shorter with the sequels. That's not good. There's 15 minutes of gameplay here.
I heard that the game (NES version) has 3 hidden rooms (except the third stage), wherr you can get healing item, repair item and a weapon. But the fourth stage is the laboratory (to spend the last of the reapir points).
Yes, there is a hidden room in the first level. Its one of the doors on the second floor. I remember finding that as a kid and my mind was blown. Don't know about other levels though
Such badass music intro and in repair
Awful…
Robocop 1 had great music Robocop 2 is better than Robocop 3
Less than 15 minutes of game? No wonder I could not remember it.
Seen this game for 79.99 at a collectors store. Mike Tyson punch out going for 59.99 and Mega Man for 119.99 😮
The best robocop game we have. Waiting for Rogue City.
And since when Nikko knows how to use a machine gun? I thought she's best as computer hacking?
Blame the programmer who did that.
I'd buy that for a dollar! No more though...
The music is by Jeroen Tel, so you know it's good. :D
Did he compose MC Kids for NES? The music in this game kinda sounds like that one.
@@Dorian_Scott No, that was composed by Charles Deenen.
Both of em are ridiculously good Commodore 64 composers
Lo tuve cuando pequeño, me lo regaló mi padre, jugábamos juntos. 😢
Ocean software went suck after 1990😢 i never understood why they change the direction on the official license games... Before 1990 Ocean's based on movie games were just mind blowing experiences ( Platoon, RoboCop 1 and 2 Commodore versions, Batman the movie, The untouchable and many others), after 1990 they start make awful nonsense platforms out of those licences... Too bad
The Start button flashes ever so slightly slower than the song, it's kind of annoying lol
Ahh, the music at the start.
Everything seemed so big and interesting to explore back then.
Incredible game, kickass music.
Brutal lol game devs didn't throw players many bones in this one.
I've had a beef with RoboCop 3 on any console at the time because they didn't do the theme song
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I've heard that the 3rd movie was bad, but this... This is terrible.
But those graphics and that music though...👌
13:46 it’s like he’s trying to setup dial-up internet connection 😂
Wait the game is that short? All these years I couldn’t get thru those small levels lol
I had this game when I was a child..... My best memories 😥😥😥😥
00:31 LMAO J.Bonar. Bonar 🤣
Finally we can see these games ending.... thanks a lot.
_RoboCop 3_ was another NES game from my youth that I regretted playing until the age of emulation, save-state abuse, and unlimited cheating power with Game Genie codes. I expected much more from Probe, the same company that made great arcade conversions of _Terminator 2: Judgment Day_ and _Mortal Kombat_ on the Genesis/Mega Drive. However, with Ocean's name all over this piece of garbage, I should have known better at the age of 10 to 11. I have many complaints about this game, but G-- damn, did I want to rip this game a new a-hole for how the jetpack was used in the third level. Basically, if you run out jetpack fuel, you can't fly nor jump, which makes RoboCop a sitting duck that can't advance across platfoms. Maybe if Probe made the jetback mechanic easy to pic up on like how it was in _Mega Man 6_ , I probably would have enjoyed the game more. I'm also angry with this game knowing that it can be beaten in an estimated 20 minutes if you know what you're doing, using the difficulty to disguise the fact. Great video. As always, you made this game look much easier than it hardly is.
Speaking of Ocean, I would recommend you guys look up the UA-camr known as Filmnstuff. He has a plethora of videos s---ting on Ocean games, and rightfully so and in hilarious fashions.
My game was bugged. The fuel in the backpack always depleted above the last gap before the tank doesn't matter how little you used it before
Had this game as a kid. One of those games that were better to leave in the memory. The fun memories. Now we realize how bad the game was lmao
What happened to Robocops arm lol
Has ocean ever made a good game?
Mr. Nutz was okay. Addams Family on SNES and Genesis was okay. But everything else is trash.
Ocean + Probe = completly shit game
@DougMPA: What Dorian Scott more or less said. Their video game adaptation of _The Addams Family Values_ on the Super NES and Gensis/Mega Drive was actually pretty good. To me, it felt like an archaic version of Konami's _Castlevania: Symphony of the Night_ .
I want her born again in same time
Best intro ever
I've been trying to kill the ninjas at the final stage for eons without avail. I now know the reason why.
This is still the best Robocop game on NES. The first one is meh and the 2nd one is ruined by that moving momentum a la Super Mario, but poorly implemented.
nostalgia
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Too bad data east did not do part 2 and 3
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Robocop 3: Where the 💩 really hit the fan.
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This game is a turd!