Also one of the founders of the dev company is Bo Anderson. The guy who had to leave overkill because of inside trading

This is a game that feels like it was supposed to come out in 2004 but they just forgot

This feels like an April Fool's joke that escaped a mid-2000's gaming magazine and found its way to 2023.

Chuck Norris’s line read was fucking hilarious. You couldn’t have summed it up better.

Why does Chuck Norris sound like Billy Madison trying to read?

The idea of a game where you try to take over a city through XCOM style randomized missions with a focus on action sounds like a great idea, no idea why they thought they needed to tie it to a story, let alone one with a star-studded cast.

I think the de-aging is what encouraged the actors to sign on.

You always do an excellent job showing off a game's good ideas, without shying away from properly criticising it. It makes a great balance, particularly for games like this. What really, really bugs me is that Crime Boss had a budget. The game pops out visually, particularly in cutscenes. Grabbing loot triggers an 'equip bag' animation, and I don't think I've ever seen that detail in a game before. The UI is slick, and the mission planning menus have a real sense of style to them. I've had the unfortunate experience of playing RAID: WWII recently, which is like a warped mirror image of Crime Boss - even with a clunky name of its own! Starbreeze's financial struggles left that game without time or money to deliver any of its ideas, so it's forgotten as just another PAYDAY clone (and a pretty shoddy one). That game wasn't afforded the kind of style and budget that Crime Boss was, which just makes me all the more disappointed that it was squandered here. Fun fact - PAYDAY 2 has a roguelike mode! I wonder whether the Crime Boss devs even knew about this...

truly feels like a fever dream. what on earth. as you so nicely put, it leaves us wondering what was even the motivation behind such a project, who even came up with this? anyway, amazing video as always. your script is always so nicely weaved and thoughtful.

If there's one thing we can thank Rockay City for, it's reminding us all how there's no super janky high-concept games anymore

This feels like the 2023 version of one of those shitty 2006 movie tie in games minimme would review.

The facial animations and character models are really good for such a low-tier game.

"Tax Evady" is a genuine genre, not even a joke.

I am convinced they didn't actually get Chuck Norris into a recording booth, but paid for the right to label some AI generated WAV files with his name.

I swear, this game's announcement at The Game Awards felt like it was one of those fake trailers they'd air at the very first or maybe second Game Awards. You know, so they could brag about having celebrities on board. Only for like Vanilla Ice to come out and say he can't wait to play it and Geoff rushing the stage to clarify it's not real.

Reminds me of Rogue Warrior, even down to the weird aggressive dialogue.

6:35 - Damn. A game where you recruit and upgrade troops, XCom style, to take on procedurally generated Payday 2 missions? That sounds fantastic. I'm actually pretty mad that this concept wasn't given proper love and attention now.

I really can’t understand what the hell Chuck Norris is doing here. It honest to god doesn’t sound like a human being.

Finally. Vanilla Ice's big comeback.

I'm just thrilled with the fact that this game was made at all. Off-the-wall and unique in a landscape of otherwise samey-AAA releases. It didn't quite pan out as well as it could have, but it's interesting nevertheless. Thanks for the video!

Ah 505, where would we be without them? Seriously though you’re not the first person to suggest this could have been money laundering/tax write-off thing. I kind of want to try it out for myself now. 😄

This is, unironically, the video game equivalent of all those Bruce Willis movies that went straight-to-DVD in the last 3-4 years. Just straight up money laundering and tax evasion by scummy producers, most likely. And the cast fits this motif perfectly lol.

The Norris voice in this game simply MUST be AI generated. It doesn't even sound like he's comprehending what he's saying lol minimme best channel 4ever

3:04 Slight correction, Payday 1 was actually published by Sony Online Entertainment (now known as Daybreak Game Company)

I WAS WAITING FOR YOU TO COVER THIS! I knew it’d be up your alley!

They didnt record chuck norris reading lines, they recorded his farts and thats what came out

It's like they had the rights to the likeness of Chuck Norris, but not his voice, or something happened to his audio recordings

If you want to kill a game before it’s even revealed, hire some Hollywood celebrities

Therapist: Text-to-speech Chuck Norris isn't real, he can't possibly roundhouse kick you. Text-to-speech Chuck Norris:

How this was made? During covid mostly working from home by small czech studio (InGame) headed by a guy who was a lead on Vietcong and later worked on Mafia 2 and 3, with all of the writing, voice acting and cutscene direction created outside this studio, in US. The lead actually talked on multiple occasions about how the traditional linearity of FPS games bores him so he wanted to create something with some unpredictability and high stakes, hence the permadeath.

I like how you've been talking about more recent, if not looked over games, as of lately!

I absolutely loved your take at the end about video games being an art form and stuff, so beautifully put.

You got a 25 percent chance at Sacrifice

Chuck Norris saying those lines at the end even a AI robot would sound more lively.

The Driver 3 spiritual successor the world needed.

"I'm rapping, sheriff!" is the most insane line read I've ever heard.

Wait what! This is a recent game, my brain doesn’t want to accept that as the truth!

The Rogue-Like aspect of the campaign feels like something you would only have as a unique difficulty setting, not as the only way to play a campaign with scripted missions. That being said the idea of a non-negotiable rouge-lite campaign has been done before, in Shadow of War's Desolation of Mordor DLC, which did also have more scripted story missions; but a key difference was that each new run would just skip over the missions you've already completed, so that as you get back to where you were you only have to deal with the army-building/character upgrading mechanics which actually lent themselves to the Rogue-like formula.

I love how the biggest discussion about this game is how it even got made, not about the gameplay or the story as would be the case with anything else.

Kind of funny that payday posted a teaser a few days ago announcing a gameplay trailer in the summer

I lost it at Chuck Norris' dialogue. A lot of thte time when someone says that an actor sounds like they're sleeping or smth, it's usually hyperbole but no. I genuinely think Norris read the dialogue right before he went to bed.

Getting flashbanged at the end is a good representation of how this game feels at all times

After a year of updates, the game is finally pretty alright.

love your uploads minimme!

thematically this reminds me of those fake crime videogames from movies where the characters just mash buttons aggressively

Always nice to find out about a whacky game I had no idea even existed.

YES I'M SO HAPPY YOU'RE COVERING THIS

exactly what I was expecting when you said you'd cover it but in the best possible way, what a fascinating enigma

What I enjoy the most about this game is that it tried something new. It's unique in both good and bad ways, and I have to commend the devs and publisher for even taking that risk in a marketplace where the most generic games sell the best.

Very nicely done on the thumbnail with the cover art

I immediately thought of CZ, so I am glad you also did so that I had no reason to leave a comment saying "Sounds like CZ"

Really loved your take on the game, great video, thanks!

The thing I love about your videos is I feel like we have the same taste in games from the ps2 era

Love your reviews as always. Please give us more modern-day jank

Not only the game's existence itself is surreal, the fact that you reviewed it also is.

When I saw penguinz0’s video about this game the only running through my head was “minimme is gonna make a video about this game in a few years, ain’t he.”

I feel like the bag moving mechanics in this game are really cool as someone who’s been playing payday for 10 years and I hope something similar is in pd2 also the reason 505 released this is because they wanted to beat pd3 to the punch this year and it didn’t work

>Generic Android shovelware name >GTA inspired artwork >Heavy reliance on a celebrity cast >Payday "influenced" gameplay Yep, it ticks all the boxes of "it's gonna be crap".

The real biggest problem this game has is actually the Škorpion having "Made in Ger" on it. Now that's unforgiveable.

Lol I like how the flashbang leads into the white screen for the credits. What a surreal game, I forgot this happened, which makes sense I guess.

some of your finest work Peter

well, new adventures await buddy!

The game Enlisted is pretty much built on the idea of AI controlled squads but in a Battlefield/Rising Storm style multiplayer...... and with equipments/skills locked behind progression in a F2P game. But you don't lose them if they die in Enlisted. Edit: I just realized, does this game have AKs? I only frequently seen M4 from gameplays.

I was not expecting Norris' performance to be THAT bad, holy shit

Its that moment of the month again ❤

I remember seeing the reveal trailer for this and thinking the same thing. Theirs no way this'll come out. And lo and behold it actually did.

Chuck Norris sounds like the kid in class who cant really read out loud but the teacher makes him. This. Is. Your. Last. Chance. Dirty. Dan

Finally, the prophecy has been fulfilled

I've never even heard of this game so it does feel like it was made for your channel.

You weren't kidding about Chuck Norris. I know he's older than he was during his Texas Ranger years, but good lord. He does sound like an AI imitating Chuck.

I just want to say, those credits are oddly very aesthetically pleasing.

I cant wait for this to come to steam

2 minutes into the review and I can't stop nodding my head to everything you said. Goddamn

Crime Boss is truly a masterpiece of 2023 with Chuck Norris, the icon of 2000s meme industry

Chuck Norris sounds like he's reading the English dub script for a non-English language MMO (like maybe one of those Korean anime-inspired ones)

I like how between this and the Deadly Dozen remake, it feels like there is a small sub-genre of games made specifically for you

I cant get over how much Chuck Noris sounds like an A.I voice lol 5:10

great vid~!

Michael Madsen was in GTA 3 as Toni Cipriani. Wait that was all the way in 2001!

Bits of this reminds me of the strategy levels of Black Ops 2. Genuinely one of the parts of that game I remember more fondly, as IMO it's one of the few new things it tried that actually kinda worked, and I'm really surprised and kinda disappointed that I don't think I've seen that attempted anywhere else since (except, strangely, for this game apparently). Combine it with some of the mechanics in this game, like the territory control, and I feel like you'd have a winning game on your hands.

Condition Zero was fun, even if the messy development ment it didnt add as much as originally promised and the game ended up having two campaigns. (The bot match one and Deleted Scenes which was a bit more like CS-flavoured Half Life) I do wish we got more FPS games that blended genres, I loved the RTS missions in Black Ops 2.

I thought you were joking about text-to-speech and Chuck Norris but no, there's no way that can be his real voice. It's got to be a poorly done AI thing

I wasn't expecting the game to fair well given the short timeframe from debut but I was somewhat looking forward to the multiplayer since I like to roll with randoms in these coop games. Once realized how small mp was I held off buying.

Mininininininininininime is reviewing that one game yay

the game mechanics (npc recruitment, mission style etc.) reminds me a lot of watch dogs legion tbh (an amazing game imo so sad to see ubisoft move on from it bc it didnt do as good as they hoped for lol)

Welcome welcome welcome back

14:50 you just described every roguelike out there, more or less

Kenny was my go-to starting bot on condition zero, usually my last to get switched at the end. Played hours of that mode

I will always remember Madsen for Daud in Dishonored

"2005's game of the year" Could end the review there, so much subtext. Certainly more than the game.

Granted I only ever saw a super short youtube add for it, but I was actually hype for this because I thought it was gonna be a tongue in cheek GTA knockoff.

Good video. I can't wait to buy it for $4.99 on a key sale.

I never heard of this game until now

Say what you will about Madson, Carver from The Walking Dead Season 2 was an incredible villain mainly thanks to his performance

The fact everyone says this may be a laundering scheme is the funniest part of the game.

Not gonna lie, this sounds awesome

conspiracy theory: the chuck norris character genuinely is voiced by text to speech and they just paid him to use his likeness

Hey Minimme, can you do a review of Kabus 22, a Turkish Resident Evil clone? I've never played it, but it looks hilarious.

The more I see about this game, the more I know it would be a guilty pleasure game for me.

This game is ALOT better now ever since the overhaul