10 Upcoming 2023 Video Games We're REALLY Worried About

Every once in a while, a game comes along that looks so pervasively mediocre you can already see the 5/10 reviews forming in your head: "[Game X] is a solid but unremarkable example of [Genre Y]". "Fine if you like this sort of thing". "Bland but inoffensive".

Enter Crime Boss: Rockay City - a game its publishers have so little faith in that they're offering a 20% pre-order discount off its already cheap £35 asking price.

Having seen the game's previews, that sounds about right.

A riff on the Payday games - organizing heists with a group of other players that inevitably culminate in the gunning down of dozens of police officers - Rockay City is seemingly handicapped by bland gunplay and woeful dialogue delivered by the game's star-studded cast.

Honestly, that cast - a list of late 80's/early 90's icons like Kim Basinger, Danny Glover and Vanilla Ice - seems to be the game's entire raison d'être. It feels like everyone involved in Rockay City's production wanted to hang out with their childhood heroes, and they all clubbed together to make a game that justified bringing in everybody's favourite stars.

In which case, allow us to retort in the spirit of the era Rockay City takes pains to evoke: "That sounds like a great way to make a game - NOT!"