RoboCop (franchise) original film, the first "RoboCop" animated series features cyborg cop Alex Murphy (Robocop), who fights to save the city of Old Detroit from assorted rogue elements, and on occasion, fighting to reclaim aspects of his humanity and maintain his usefulness in the eyes of the "Old Man", Chairman of OCP. Many episodes see RoboCop's reputation put to the test or soured by interventions from Dr. McNamara, the creator of ED-260, the upgradable version of the Enforcement Droid Series 209 and the top competitor for the financial backing of OCP. He continually develops other mechanical menaces that threaten RoboCop. In the
RoboCop 3 recouping its estimated $22 million production budget. After "RoboCop 2"'s score which was composed by Leonard Rosenman, the "RoboCop" original composer Basil Poledouris returned to do the soundtrack score and brought back many of the RoboCop themes that were missing from "RoboCop 2." "RoboCop 3" was near universally panned by critics. The film was also a bomb at the box office only earning $10 million on a $22 million budget. Rotten Tomatoes gives "RoboCop 3" a score of 3% based on 30 reviews, with an average score of 3.1 out of 10. Metacritic rates it 40 out of 100 based