![]() ![]() The sound is pretty solid too, with those great gun sound effects and some reasonably solid voice acting. Sure they obscure your view occasionally, but it looks nice in action. ![]() There are neat pieces of pop up text that appear, XIII style, when you land a headshot or a slow-motion kill. Bright, colourful environments and characters look quite striking which makes up for the lower overall visual quality, whilst the guns are very well modelled and textured. The visuals aren’t amazing, but there is a distinct style here. ![]() Those short, sharp missions of the original were the perfect length. ![]() That frustration coupled with the tedious linearity of the levels really are a detriment to RICO London. These long stretches without the chance to buy upgrades are quite frustrating as your health can be whittled down very quickly, especially by melee enemies who seem to harm you before they’ve even swung their weapon. Quite why I was seeing a vehicle loading bay seven floors up I’ll never know. The areas you fight through are very long, and you’ll see the same rooms over and over again, some of which don’t make any sense. Occasionally there are hostages to rescue to bump up your score, which allows you to buy upgrades once you’ve reach the end of an area, but that’s pretty much the entire game. Simply putting highlights around them would have helped out here a lot. You can find pickups in the rooms for things such as ammo and health, but they don’t stand out very well, meaning you’ll often scour each room you enter to find anything useful, which kills the pace of what should be a rapid game. It’s solid stuff, and with all that weapon variety it takes a while to get dull. You can slide along the ground, leap through the air like you’re in a John Woo film, and chuck out throwing knives and flashbangs to give you an edge. Slow-motion is back as you breach a door, giving you a few moments to get a couple of hits in before your enemies can react. The actual fighting is quite fun, like in RICO London’s predecessor, with meaty sounding weapons - and there are a lot on offer to find and purchase - that feel powerful as you take down your foes. You’ll fight through warehouses, offices, and apartments as you work your way up to kill the final boss and succeed in your self-appointed mission.Įach room normally contains between two and eight bad guys, regularly on the lower end of that range, and once you’ve killed them you’ll move onto the next. Gone are the somewhat open plan layouts of the original, being replaced with room after room of bad guys, with the occasional side room containing little to nothing of interest. Kicking open a door gives you a few moments of slow motion to get the drop on enemies, accompanied by a little fish-eye visual effect.Īfter the brief intro, you’ll be dropped into the ground floor warehouse - with no tutorial at all, I should add - and you’ll need to work through the incredibly linear environments towards the next floor. The shooting is, and there’s a whole lot of it to be done. Aside from the slight silliness of London police detectives packing a sizable arsenal of firearms in the back of their sedan, there isn’t much to be said for the story, which is fine as that absolutely isn’t the focus. They’re staking out a building and see a crime group doing crime things, so they hop out of the car, grab some guns from the boot of the car, and go in to take down the entire mob themselves. You play as police officers Redfern and Khan in turn of the millennium London. RICO London takes away pretty much everything that was good about that previous game, leaving a shell of what could have been. It was really quite satisfying, if a little janky in places. The fact that most rooms in the small environments had multiple entry points was a great inclusion, as you and your partner could burst into the room from different positions, utilising the game’s slow motion feature to clear the area in moments. Fail, and it’s right back to the beginning I’m afraid. Succeed, and you’d move closer to taking down the crime boss, with more money and weapons to help you. Your cop, with a friend in tow if you wished, would choose missions to take on in apartments, warehouses, and other such venues and need to head in and take down all the terrorists within, collecting evidence and helpful items along the way. I really rather enjoyed RICO, the 2019 roguelike first person shooter. RICO London removes pretty much everything I liked from its predecessor. ![]()
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