Ultra Cop might just be the best $2 you’ll spend all week.
There was a time in the early 2000s when many thought the world of PC gaming was on its death knell. With consoles getting faster, more graphically powerful, more affordable, and more popular, the idea of gaming on PC was looking less and less feasible, especially when RGB was decades away and every case looked like a beige brick that dad used for taxes and playing minesweeper. We know now that isn’t the case and PC gaming is stronger than ever, but at the time things were bleak.
This was an era of great strife where building a PC required a college degree and a bit of luck, but also a time of publishers more willing to take chances on the new age of 3D. Ultra Cop feels cut from this mold. It feels like the sort of PC game that you’d by at your local Office Depot or CompUSA without knowing anything about it beyond what was on the box. Heck, you didn’t even know if the game would run on your machine, even if it met the minimum specs.
But once you loaded it up you might just be playing something absolutely insane and special. The story would be paper-thin, but the action would be balls to the wall fun. In Ultra Cop the vaguely hinted at second Crime Wars has started and it’s up to the Ultra Cops, a team of future cops with no rules and surprisingly old guns, to bring back ultimate justice. And to get ultimate justice you’ll be using huge mechs, fast cars, and big old guns to take down the bad guys who have taken over… South Africa? Okay, color me interested!
Ultra Cop is a 3D action shooter that has a lot going for it. You take on four missions each with their own objectives and enemies. You’ll need to rescue hot babes trapped in weird vats, eliminate certain threats, destroy objectives and more. It’s a fast and visceral experience with plenty of gibs to go around. You take on the role of a future cop and bring justice through first and third person shooting. And when you’re not shooting you can pick up enemies, objects, and even friends and toss them around. You can even toss items and enemies into environmental hazards to watch the blood really fly.
The game itself isn’t long, but the action is fast and non-stop. Your mech can tank a lot of damage and mow down enemies even though walls and defenses while your cop car zooms quickly across the map helping you get places faster and recon an area better. You’ll also have a small arsenal of guns to choose from, each of which packs different power, speed, and range. Replayability is key to the fun in Ultra Cop and mixing up weapons and tactics can be a good time as the game can be brutal when you’re on foot. You even have some control over your cop buddies who can help you in each of the games four missions.
The developer of the game has come out and promised a number of future updates through their road map on Steam. It’s actually surprising to be getting updates that will include new missions, modes, a difficulty toggle, and more weapons. Developers with larger games and larger budgets can’t even be bothered to support a game after it gets pushed out the door in the current market, so having support for a fun game will certainly get me to come back again.
Ultra Cop is really dumb and a lot of really silly fun. It’s a video game that had a vision and style in mind and went full boar with it. Ultra Cop screams 2000s PC game! The Audio is compressed and messy, collision detection is holding on for dear life, enemy and squad AI tries its best, and things blow up when you just look at them wrong. It’s a mess. A big, beautiful mess. The kind of game you remember playing in 2000 that you bought in some bargain bin at a FuncoLand while on family vacation. Sure, it was probably made by a single Russian dude and released on a mystery label called ValuBuy, but it was pure insanity, and you loved every second of it.
I’m actually pretty sure Ultra Cop was made by one dude and MercySoft sounds like a pure 90s budget PC games label. No idea about the Russian part though. Whatever the case may be just go and pick up Ultra Cop and support good developers making fun games.
Final Score:
“Ultra Cop is ultra fun!”
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