Customer Reviews

C.O.P. The Recruit

5 star:		(1)
4 star:		(0)
3 star:		(2)
2 star:		(0)
1 star:		(0)

 

 

The main plot of this game is that there is a terrorist organization plotting an attack in the city and you are a criminal-turned-cop who is helping to thwart the terrorists plans.
I bought this game because I thought it looked cool, but then saw a review for it in Game Informer that totally trashed it (I think they gave it 4.5 out of 10 stars). Needless to say I wasn't expecting much.However, after playing it, I am wondering if GI played a different game. This game is very entertaining. The controls are hard to get used to at first (and this is why GI gave it such a low rating). Behind the wheel action is probably the most complicated, as if you get going too fast, the car will spin out on you if you turn too sharply and oncoming cars seem to materialize out of nowhere sometimes. However, I don't think it is any worse than Grand Theft Auto on the DS....I had the same kind of problem with Chinatown Wars. I don't think that GI played it enough to rate it fairly, because after practicing driving for a while, it got easier and more intuitive. Practice makes perfect.
Another control that is hard to get used to is the shooting. You are essentially using 3 different things at once: the stylus to turn around and aim, the directional buttons to go forward, backward, and side-to-side, and one of the L/R buttons to shoot. This is challenging to get used to and a little frustrating at first, but once you've played a while, it feels much more natural.
I admit it is disconcerting at first because the optional side missions seem impossible to beat. My advice is to do the main missions for a while (you can try the side missions to gauge what they consist of too, of course), and then later try some optional missions. And if you fail a mission or optional mission, no big deal. You don't lose anything, you simply go back to the point you were at before beginning the mission (and the same optional mission will pop back up on your screen as well, if you'd like to try it again).
Regular missions vary in difficulty, from things as easy as going to a certain location, to taking out all the bad guys in a casino or putting out fires on multiple vehicles in a certain amount of time. Most of the more difficult missions, I had to do more than once because they aren't easy, but they are not enragingly difficult either. I think it is a perfect level of difficulty, challenging, but not impossible after practice.
Optional side missions are not as varied. You will have a speeding car that you have to catch up with and slam into several times to disable it in a limited time(I thought this one was most difficult by far), or you will have a robbery in progress and you have to take out the robber and accomplices.
The only thing I did not like about this game was that the guns did not hold very many bullets, and each time you need to reload you have to find the nearest artillery store and do it there. That gets a little annoying, but once you have collected a few guns from different bad guys you've shot down, it's not as bad because you can just change guns if you run out of bullets. You'll still have to reload at the artillery store but you won't have to do it as often.
All in all, this is a great game. If you like GTA for DS, you will most likely enjoy this game. It plays a lot like GTA, except you are playing the opposite side of the law: the good guys!

This game is HARD. I got it because I thought the Amazon promo video on the game looked like cool and fun and I wanted something besides my puzzle games to play. First attempt at playing COP I gave up with what I call the second stage (driving from HQ to the training centre). Then a week or so later I tried again got past the driving thing, then got stuck for a while with the training where you had to shoot the guards that were shooting at you - you have to use the stylus, the directional buttons and one the R button to move the gun, move yourself and shoot respectively. After a couple tries I got that sort of sorted (if at first you dont succeed...). I have since been stuck on the next stage - where you actually go out on a mission. I guess a couple more tries will get that sorted - eventually.
However at the moment I have a couple other games to distract me.
If you are an enthusiastic gamer and used to this style of gaming, you should have no problem.

Got this for my 11 year old's birthday. He played it a lot at first but tired of it quickly.