System: Valve Index, HTC Vive & Oculus Rift
Price at Time Of Review: £18.99
Comfort Rating: Green (No Movement)
Genre: Action
Input: Tracked Motion Controllers
Best Playing Position: Standing
Multi-Player: No
Age Rating: PG
Description: You ARE Giant Cop! It’s your first day on the job and you need to hit the ground running in order to keep the citizens of Micro City safe. Use your size to your advantage as you tower high above the city streets enforcing the law, and use your wits to uncover a criminal plot that threatens the future of Micro City! Micro City is broken into districts, each with a distinct identity where pedestrians react to your every move. As Giant Cop, players can explore and play in the city while being tasked with missions like ridding the city of the savage cabbage, cleaning up neighbourhood crimes like noise complaints and keeping pesky protests under control. There is a colourful cast of characters, set in a 70s art and music style, that you interact with along the way.
Review: From the moment this game starts you know you are in for something different, something unique. With a 70’s cartoon style and godlike strategy game overview Giant Cop: Justice Above All is like nothing else that you would have played before. The storyline is pretty simple, you have been selected to become a Giant Cop who will look over the city with an eye for justice and fairness. Oh! And keeping an eye out for crazy hippies eating cabbages. You teleport around the city and stop crime and even get information from people to stop it from ever happening. This is a crime drama done in the style of a cartoon Starsky & Hutch.
While this game has a story path there is nothing stopping you from going off and doing other things like trying to find all the Cop shields that are hidden over the lands or even causing a bit of mayhem by throwing people and cars all over the place. There is so much to see and do here, but most of the time it is about sticking to the storyline. Can you get to the bottom of the illegal cabbage supply?
For me, this is as good as VR currently gets. It’s deeply immersive and with the right size full room setup it feels incredible, almost like a living, breathing cityscape all around you. It’s funny, silly, fun, it’s everything I like in a god view game. But it’s nowhere near being perfect and more than a few times I got stuck with no help on what to do next. Also, it can become quite laggy even though the graphics are not exactly pushing the boundaries of realism. Happily, even those little gripes won’t stop me from playing this until I have found every badge and completed every mission, it is that good. But it might be best to wait just a few weeks until the developer can iron out a few bugs. But I can’t wait that long, I just want to play this game right now.
