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COP: The Recruit: The Trailer
Ubisoft is releasing COP: The Recruit, its open-world, openly derivative DS cop game, on November 3. To promote the upcoming release, Ubisoft sent out this new trailer that shows off not only the impressive 3D found in the title, but the impressive variety of gameplay. There are shooting segments, interactions with security cameras and other equipment, and, of course, the combination of on-foot and driving gameplay found in a certain other series.Like always, however, we take issue with the use of a tiny, floating DS to display this gameplay footage. Seeing one screen at a time is preferable to the extreme zoom-out -- and if you have to show the whole DS, please hold it still! We're trying to look at the game you're showing us.
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Hands-on: Cop: The Recruit (DS)
As a service to our busy readers, here's an extremely brief description of Ubisoft's C.O.P.: The Recruit: It's Grand Theft Auto, on the DS. Even more than the actual Grand Theft Auto game on the DS, Recruit recreates the 3D GTAs to a surprising degree of accuracy. It looks like one of the PS2 Grand Theft Auto games -- scaled down, of course, but not as much as we would think. Like in GTA games, you can steal any car, go anywhere in the city, and take part in both narrative and side missions of various kinds. In fact, you can do pretty much anything you can do in GTA (aside from the pointlessly extreme stuff), despite the fact that you're not actually a criminal, but a police officer ... who used to be a criminal.%Gallery-65282%
Interview: Nouredine Abboud: The Producer on C.O.P.: The Recruit
Just a few hours after Nintendo unveiled Ubisoft's sandbox DS game C.O.P.: The Recruit at its press conference, we found producer Nouredine Abboud at the Nintendo booth and spoke to him about the new game. A rather animated Abboud was only too happy to talk with us about cramming what amounts to a full 3D sandbox game into the DS, releasing said game on the system in a post-Chinatown Wars world, and the recent trend of DS cop games. He started by giving us some insight into the game's title.%Gallery-65282%
COP: The Recruit takes you to an urban open world on the DS
Nintendo has just announced COP: The Recruit, created by Ubisoft, for the DS at their E3 press conference. It's an open-world third-person urban crime game with an anime edge -- you play as a street racer who's been cuffed, and has to choose between working for the police or returning to your criminal ways. The short video they showed was reminiscent of both Driver and GTA -- running, shooting, committing acts that would normally get you locked up, all on the DS's dual screens.We've got no date at all for when this might actually appear on store shelves, but we're guessing it'll be some point in the future. Sometime after this exact second right now.
