C.O.P.: The Recruit Critic Reviews

COP The Recruit was born to demonstrate that limits exist to be pushed forward.

And make no mistake – this is an impressive game from a lot of standpoints. It may have suffered a bit from the lack of hype leading up to its release and some not bad, but not exactly great gunplay, but C.O.P. is one of those games that people will still find themselves gushing about years from now.

C.O.P: The Recruit is a good and interesting sandbox game with many possibilities for the players. It offers an open world in 3D with some original and innovative situations giving fresh air to the genre. Third person moments work so well with the stylus. One of the most visually impressive games on Nintendo DS and a serious choice for the followers of the sandbox games.

One step further, and we would be in front of another killer app for the Nintendo DS. Sadly, clumsy control and an anonimous soundtrack keep it from excellency.

At first, it seemed that C.O.P.could be the best rival for Chinatown Wars on Nintendo DS, but despite having great visuals, it's far from perfection. A game with good ideas but without results; it's not the GTA rival many expected, but it's a good game overall.

An exciting, albeit clunky, driving/action game born out of GTA inspiration, C.O.P. The Recruit pushes the limits of the Nintendo DS.

Although plagued by balance and control issues, COP the Recruit is ambitious in its depth and groundbreaking in its technology. The easily frustrated might want to skip this game, but for experienced gamers looking for a challenge, COP offers a lengthy experience and hardcore difficulty.

Many of the missions here are fun to play, and one can easily spend a few days working through the missions and exploring New York, so this isn't a terrible buy. Just don't expect much more than a me-too experience.

C.O.P. The Recruit may not be a GTA killer, but it it's not a hopeless GTA wannabe either. Its unique shooting controls and its mission variety make this game worthy to check out.

In spite of some minor glitches and the DS’ obvious technical limitations, C.O.P. The Recruit offers a rich and enjoyable gameplay alongside a sandbox structure, and a living and breathing virtual world.

While not nearly as groundbreaking as it's console-based role models, Ubisoft's C.O.P. The Recruit serves as a solid sandbox title with some incredibly fun gameplay and inventive shooting and stealth scenarios.

It has a few design flaws that detract from the gameplay, particularly in terms of simple usability, and to tell the truth there’s not really a huge amount of originality on display. If you’ve played any open world GTA off-shoot in the past ten years you’ll find little in C.O.P. to surprise you, but if you’re after a less-adult title in the genre then C.O.P.

There is a lot of combat and, overall, COP is good, it just lacks some of the elements that pull you deeper into the world.

A decent stab at a GTA style game but it lacks choice and that essential feeling of life.

Ubisoft fails to deliver a solid alternative option to GTA.

A great idea in theory but in practice it's just not as much fun being the good guy.

It’s a decent enough game that has the ability to keep your interest for a while, but there are enough flaws with it that it isn’t worth a purchase.

If you're looking for a somewhat fun action, you could do worse than C.O.P the Recruit. The shooting controls needed work, and it would've been nice to have a multiplayer mode, but this is one police story worth listening to.

The game offers an amazing graphic and a pretty good storyline, but the shooting controls are seriously too frustrating to entertain the players until the end titles.

The core problem with C.O.P. is that it is unfinished. The “dramatic” story is comical: there is a large cast of characters that I don't know anything about nor do I care to, and the plot is confounding and hard to follow. The gameplay is unpolished: driving isn't fun and gunplay is defective. The sound is just not good.