C.O.P. The Recruit is an open-world game on the DS that puts you in control of Dan Miles, a former illegal street racer turned C.O.P., better known as Criminal Overturn Program recruit. Your partnership with a Detective Winter hits a road block when he is falsely arrested and Dan turns back to his former life to figure out what exactly happened. This time around, he's undercover. The arrest was just one part of a vast conspiracy that has horrible repercussions if the plan succeeds.
Gaming Gauge writes:"So we recently got a look at how DS games function on the 3DS. As you can see the games are upscaled to fill the screen rather than mapped 1:1(although the option may be there). The downside to this method is that the games lose a bit a clarity, they can appear a bit blurry and fuzzy. I thought it would be interesting to make some mock up screenshots to compare how different styles are affected by the upscaling."
3DS cant even run ds games without fuzziness while the mighty NGP can run PS3 games
For it's many game-play shortcomings, the visuals still stand out. Perhaps the team at VD-Dev spent too much time on the visuals and not enough time on the game-play. Even though they have done fantastic job with the visuals it doesn't make up for the lack of good game design. If you want a 3D GTA experience on DS this is the closest you'll get. It's worth a brief look at just to see the visuals but be forewarned about the game itself. Don't get your hopes up.
It's hard not to like the game in many ways. The ambitiousness of the developers is obviously apparent and coupled with the things they did right helps you overlook those things they did wrong. C.O.P. The Recruit is worth at least a rental from gamers that enjoy the sandbox genre and a purchase from those willing to accept a balance of flaws and superfluousness.
