Robocop vs Terminator Review

Here´s the thing with this game, I owned this game for my SNES since the release. I got it as a christmas present, and sure I did enjoy the game back then but it wasn´t until I played it again now in later years that I fully appreciated the game. It´s maybe not the best game out on the retro market but it is without doubt one of the better with Robocop and Terminator.

Well if I were to come to the "thing" about this game, well Robocop vs Terminator was released for NES, SNES, Master System aswell as Genesis and in each port of the game it´s a new game. Sure it still has the same story, Robocop is the good guy, turns on Skynet, feel bad, destroy skynet and saves the day. However the level design is different and some of the gameplay and weapons. I haven´t tried out the Master System version (yet), but in the Genesis version Robocop moves faster, its more blood, different weapons from SNES and NES. But and pretty big BUT, the game feels broken on the Genesis version (which could´ve been the best port of the game) because you die so freaking easy by getting hit by an enemy and that´s not from the projectiles that they shoot, oh no, it´s by touching them. You can´t even see how fast the health bar gets drained by doing that. And on some bosses you need to jump over them but it´s pretty much impossible to jump over them because you will touch em and die. The action however is spot on (if it weren´t that bosses can take miljon hits before dying).

However on the SNES and NES versions of the game it´s more slowpaced, and kinda difficult aswell but it doesn´t let the player think it´s impossible which is an great deal for wanting to come back to the game (hell I´m already thinking about running through the game once more on both SNES and NES).

The graphics for the game is standard for that era but it´s small things that make me put a smile on my face, as an example the sound that comes from Robocop as he walks is the same as in the movie (nice touch there).

I would actually recommend this game and not only one port but atleast the three ports I´ve played, yeah Genesis port is somewhat broken BUT it´s still fun (and yeah there´s cheat codes which is almost necessary to progress through the game at a certain point). But I would as I mentioned earlier actually recommend this game because it´s freaking awesome, fun to play and puts a challenge for the player.

Overall: 7,5
Verdigt: It´s a fun retro game with nostalgic feelings written all over. Difficult but not impossible (atleast on SNES and NES without cheat codes). Try it out if you were a big fan of those two big movie screen robots, but don´t expect to be blown away.

And here´s a video of the Genesis version (will be uploading a vid from SNES and NES aswell later on)