Alarm for Cobra 11: Nitro
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Alarm für Cobra 11: Nitro is an action-oriented racing game based on the German TV series Alarm für Cobra 11. It utilizes the main features of the source material: policemen drive on freeways, hunt criminals and cause everything to explode what they touch.
The campaign consists of 25 missions (+ 2 bonus missions) which are arranged in a linear way. The goal is mostly to win a race against time respectively other cars or to catch a criminal by crashing his car. Sometimes there are also checkpoint races, e.g. to diffuse bombs or to check banks which are potential goals for a robbery. The story is only told in texts before the missions. The player spends most of his time on freeways but sometimes the missions take place in a city which results in the need to do turns.
Before every mission the player also can choose one of four difficulty levels which gives additional or harder mission requirements which have to be fulfilled to win it, e.g. a time or car damage limit. Depending on the difficulty level the player unlocks new cars and courses for the single races and multiplayer mode; overall about 15 cars and 35 courses. These don't represent the playing modes of the campaign but are always regular races.
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- Спецотряд "Кобра 11": Полицейский Армагеддон - Russian spelling
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Average score: 67% (based on 11 ratings)
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Average score: 2.9 out of 5 (based on 7 ratings with 1 reviews)
Decent graphics, decent handling, time limit too tight
The Good
Alarm for Cobra 11 has lots of cars quite a few "exciting" missions, decent graphics for 2006 game, supports full controller remap, supports splitscreen
The Bad
Default campaign too limiting (fixed 25 missions plus 2 bonus missions), single race are limiting as well, no internet multiplayer, plot is usually quite silly
The Bottom Line
Alarm for Cobra 11 is basically Germany's version of "CHIPs", the highway patrol, with two main characters going after criminals on the freeway or in the streets, and occasionally, running away from them. Nitro is one of the games that attempts to capture the feel of the TV series, but lets you drive the cars.
The town is quite large and has wide variety of roads, from city streets to parks, highways to country roads, and such. The game has a very good "GPS" that tells you which way you need to go, so getting lost is not a problem.
The officers, often working plain-clothes or undercover, has a wide variety of vehicles, usually a MB or a BMW, but occasionally Audi or Porsche. There are even a few missions featuring a Toyota Supra and the two "special" missions featured a SEAT. In any case, the mission will let you know which car to drive. You can choose among the 3 dozen cars available in single race after you unlock them from the campaign.
The vehicle handling is quite nice. The cars usually understeer with the occasional snap oversteer if you maintain power in the corners. The different vehicles do behave differently, and nitro is usually NOT available in the missions, and you don't need them.
The missions are your standard variations: checkpoint, pursuit and smash (put down the target), pursuit and disable (hold the vehicle for X seconds), and escape (do not let yourself be overtaken). There's one special mission where you need to dock with the vehicle (come along side it for X seconds).
For most missions your path is pre-defined, and deviation from that will result in a "reset" where you are placed on the street in the correct orientation (you can also do manual reset when you crashed and ended up stranded or upside down and such). However, some of the checkpoint races are semi-freeform... They tell you which checkpoint, you figure out best way to get there.
In actual gameplay, the civilian vehicles burst into flames at the tiniest excuse, even diesel vehicles.
Windows · by Kasey Chang (4591) · 2013
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Game added by Patrick Bregger.
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Additional contributors: jean-louis, DemonikD, PavelDAS, Đarks!đy ✔.
Game added December 3, 2009. Last modified April 20, 2024.