Robocop, the horrific cyborg creation of a rapacious mega-corp searching for to impose its will on the sick, crumbling stays of a capitalist empire, is the newest popular culture icon to make its solution to Fortnite.
Obtainable now within the Fortnite Merchandise Store, this violent, inhuman software of bloated company overlords comes armed with the leg (intelligent pun there) of ED-209, the pre-Robocop regulation enforcement machine that was a bit of too environment friendly at its job. The LEG-209 serves as Again Bling for the Robocop outfit, and in addition does obligation as a pickaxe. They’re each included within the Robocop Bundle, together with the Lil’ ED-209 emote.
My preliminary response to Robocop in Fortnite is that it is form of a wierd addition. Robocop, in spite of everything, was a scathing critique of corporatism, capitalism, systemic corruption, and the slow-motion failure of contemporary society, whereas Fortnite is extra akin to an interactive embrace of each popular culture phenomenon below the solar—not a number of apparent cross-compatibility there. I really feel like it is a bit old-fashioned for Fortnite’s viewers, too: The unique Robocop got here out in 1987, in spite of everything.
Alternatively, it was identified to me that the whole lot edgy is finally bought again to us as toys by the identical companies they as soon as criticized—and Robocop director Paul Verhoeven would in all probability be completely amused by the entire thing anyway.
Finally, Fortnite is an all-out crossover free-for-all—current additions to the sport embody Murderer’s Creed, Physician Who, Naomi Osaka, and the X-Males—and I recalled as I used to be penning this that the Terminator, who as soon as ripped a person’s coronary heart out of his chest so he might take his jacket, joined the sport in January 2021. So I suppose the addition of Robocop is not all that out-of-bounds in spite of everything.
Robocop is out there within the Fortnite Merchandise Retailer now. That is what it appears to be like like.
