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Co-op Buddy Shooter Rico Now Has A March 2019 Release Date

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When I headed out to PAX East 2018, I was asked to check out a game called Rico. A co-op shooter, that has you places you in the role of a cop that has just 24 hours to solve a case. Except you won’t be tracking down clues and following up on leads. Nope, here you’ll be hunting down criminals, dodging bullets via bullet time, in an exciting procedurally-generated action movie FPS. To be honest, I joked and remarked that it reminded me of the Lethal Weapon movies, to which multiple people around me agreed.

I enjoyed what I played and thought the game had potential, so I was looking forward to it. Except for the developer, Ground Shatter, went dark and I hadn’t seen an update regarding the game for months. In fact, I reached out a few days ago and asked what was happening; they told me they couldn’t tell me.

Now we know that Rico now has a release date of March 12 and will be arriving on the PlayStation 4 (physical) and Xbox One (digital). Then on March 13, Rico will bless the Nintendo Switch (physical), with the PC version coming on March 14, 2019. It will be priced $19.99 for all platforms. 

I’m interested to see how far along Rico has progressed since my hands-on with the title. I know when speaking with the developer on hand during PAX East 2018, they had some ambitious plans for the title. Such as leaderboards, daily challenges, and a few other things. I also want to see how the title performs when it comes to the online multiplayer portion since we didn’t get a chance to check that out. For those aren’t a fan of online shooters, not to worry as the game supports local co-op as well.

We’ll definitely cover Rico when it gets released, so keep to check to check back when it does.

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Keith has been a fan of geek culture and video games ever since his father gifted him his first gaming console many decades ago and has used this love of for the genres to start The Outerhaven. Keith keeps follows on the ongoings of videogames, anime, comics and technology, and while he has been writing about these topics for the past 14 years, he has been a gamer and tech guy for 30 years.