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C.O.P. The Recruit
Mixed or average reviews
Based on 38 critic reviews
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Game Info
Publisher: Ubisoft
Developer: Ubisoft
Genre(s): Action, Adventure
Players: 1
ESRB Rating: T (Teen)
Release Date: November 3, 2009
Summary
Dan Miles is a former underground street racer and new recruit in the Criminal Overturn Program (C.O.P.). Under the terms of the C.O.P., Dan has become a street detective working to protect New York citizens against large-scale threats. Working with his mentor, Detective Brad Winter, Dan is investigating a series of terrorist attacks in the city when Brad is falsely arrested, putting the investigation on hold. While trying to uncover the truth behind Brad's arrest, Dan goes undercover and returns to his life on the streets. Little by little he gets wrapped up in a deadly, widespread conspiracy and must work to prevent a potentially catastrophic attack on the city. Experience the thrill of cruising the streets of New York City without any loading times! C.O.P. The Recruit is the most visually impressive game on the Nintendo DS, with an open-world 3D experience running at 60 frames per second (FPS). The game's innovative engine also allows for a wealth of detailed imagery, whether driving at 120 MPH or shooting your way through the gorgeous interior environments. C.O.P. The Recruit allows gamers to experience all aspects of being a police officer recruit with 60 missions and over 20 hours of diverse gameplay. Get behind the wheel of some of the fastest cars around, and use the stylus to shoot down enemies and spy on terrorists. Experience a bustling, vibrant New York City, complete with pedestrians on the street, cars rushing to avoid traffic, and boats navigating the surrounding waterways of Manhattan. Explore the 6 square miles of the city and experience a wide variety of environments and climate conditions. As a recruit, you have access to New York City's most powerful tools. Use your PDA to plan and launch a SWAT team assault through your DS system's microphone, set up road blocks, summon an ambulance, access the city's camera system to locate your targets, and much more. [Ubisoft]
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What The Critics Said
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Vandal Online
COP The Recruit was born to demonstrate that limits exist to be pushed forward.
Read Full Review >Gamers' Temple
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.
Read Full Review >3DJuegos
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.
Read Full Review >SpazioGames
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.
Read Full Review >GameZone
An exciting, albeit clunky, driving/action game born out of GTA inspiration, C.O.P. The Recruit pushes the limits of the Nintendo DS.
Read Full Review >Meristation
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.
Read Full Review >Gaming Nexus
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.
Read Full Review >Cheat Code Central
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.
Read Full Review >9Lives
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.
Read Full Review >GamesNation
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.
Read Full Review >Kombo
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.
Read Full Review >GamePro
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.
Read Full Review >Games Master UK
A decent stab at a GTA style game but it lacks choice and that essential feeling of life. [Christmas 2009, p.73]
Nintendo Life
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.
Read Full Review >Official Nintendo Magazine UK
A great idea in theory but in practice it's just not as much fun being the good guy.
Read Full Review >Gamer 2.0
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.
Read Full Review >Modojo
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.
Read Full Review >Eurogamer Italy
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.
Read Full Review >NintendoWorldReport
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.
Read Full Review >Worth Playing
If you were hoping to get a decent GTA clone out of C.O.P., prepare to be disappointed. It's a pretty big letdown from the action-packed trailer that was shown at last year's E3, and it certainly doesn't deserve a second glance from most DS owners.
Read Full Review >GamingXP
A lot of unused potential will even let hardcore GTA fans feel this game as less then average.
Read Full Review >GameShark
From a technical standpoint, C.O.P.:The Recruit is very impressive and tech-heads may find it worth checking out if only to see how smoothly it runs with such a large environment at play.
Read Full Review >Gamer.nl
C.O.P. The Recruit's greatest achievement is a technical one. To deliver a GTA-like city in 3D on the DS is something we didn't believe was possible. It's a shame the gameplay doesn't achieve the same level. Driving around the city is fun but not enough to compensate for the problematic shooting-mechanics. The game provides variation and an entertaining story, but never is fun to play.
Read Full Review >IGN
I wanted to like C.O.P., but there simply wasn’t enough effort put into localizing it and giving the characters some personality.
Read Full Review >InsideGamer.nl
For a true sandbox game on a handheld you should not get C.O.P. A large open world doesn’t make a game with the same quality as Chinatown Wars. No, C.O.P. is simply boring because the story is not interesting, there is little to do in the environments and that what remains in the game is just to repetitive.
Read Full Review >VideoGamer
C.O.P. The Recruit makes you appreciate, if indeed it further needed your appreciation, the true worth of Chinatown Wars.
Read Full Review >Zentendo
It’s not totally broken, but those that wish to "Starsky and Hutch" it up on the cheap will enjoy it on that merit as they pick it up amongst the unwanted "Petz" and licensed movie tie-in games, the rest of us are going for a life of crime. It’s much more interesting.
Read Full Review >PALGN
C.O.P.: The Recruit is cynical, mediocre and clunky game, with its raison d'etre being the wholesale emulation of the Grand Theft Auto formula. To say that it fails wholeheartedly is hardly an overstatement.
Read Full Review >Multiplayer.it
C.O.P. The Recruit is a shallow and boring experience that tries without success to replicate the GTA formula. The only positive aspect is the graphical engine, really impressive based on the hardware limitations.
Read Full Review >Game Informer
Every ambitious idea in C.O.P. is countered by a lazy compromise, right down to the unnecessarily acronymized title (which is never explained in a satisfactory way in the game). The game offers oodles of content for anyone willing to put up with the sub-par execution, but if you’ve ever played a Grand Theft Auto game or have reasonable standards for gameplay and storytelling, there’s no reason to waste your time on C.O.P.
Read Full Review >Eurogamer
What does make it a poor game is the crappy driving, ridiculous shooting, cackhanded interface and nonsense story.
Read Full Review >Nintendo Power
There's a story to hold the action together, but not a very strong one. [Holiday 2009, p.89]
Eurogamer Spain
Cop: The Recruits tries to mix GTA's shooting levels with Driver's car chases, but fails miserably.
Read Full Review >NGamer UK
Absolute minger of a game. [Christmas 2009, p.66]
Teletext GameCentral
The anti-Chinatown Wars shows everything that could have gone wrong trying to make Grand Theft Auto on DS.
Read Full Review >Game Revolution
What makes COP: The Recruit a lackluster game is that it comes late to the party. If this game came out 10 years ago on the Nintendo 64 and before high expectations were set for gritty crime games, then maybe it could’ve been a decent game, possibly even a good game. But with open-city action titles like Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars, this game just can’t compare.
Read Full Review >What Our Users Said
The average user rating for this game is 9.3 (out of 10) based on 9 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
