Techno Cop

The driving graphics are colourful but don't convey much impression of speed. The sections in the buildings are identical to the Spectrum and virtually the same graphically. Still good value and entertainment on the Amstrad, with two game in one.

Ugh! Splatter! Boom! You are the cop of the future. Step aside Robocop, let the real men through. Techy, as he is know to his friends, has to try and get promoted by completing all the missions sent to him whilst he is out driving his spanking red Ferrari around the quaint country roads. Also on the roads are loads of other cars who, Mad Max style, try to run you off the road.

Technocop is a game which could have been quite superb, but in my opinion some pretty poor programming and overall bad design have ruined a nice idea which could have been turned into something special. Avoid.

All in all, Technocop is an interesting footnote in video game history, but nothing more.

Das "Erst-fahren-dann-ballern"-Spektakel "Technocop" machte in der Amiga-Version hauptsächlich wegen der blutrünstigen Handlung und Grafik von sich reden. Auch auf dem Mega Drive bietet es zwar viel Blut und einige Gags, jedoch enttäuschend wenig Tiefgang und Spielwitz.

It really is coming to something when you use the graphic capabilities of the Amiga to produce something as mindlessly sick as this. It's all good fun, is it? Well, it looks a bit too close to reality to seem like good fun to me - blowing someone into a pile of offal isn't my idea of enjoyment. OK, so you'll probably all go out and have a look at it because it's 'controversial' - well, by all means have a look at both versions, but for god-sake don't buy them, because there's a repetitive, dull and unoriginal game cowering underneath all that sensationalist gore.

Techno Cop wasn't fun in 1990 (1988 on other platforms like the Commodore 64) and it's certainly no fun now. There's not even any amusement in the game as an artifact of an era when developers were feeling cheeky about the ability to skirt around the edges of good taste. The driving is boring. The suspect hunting is lame. Keep it out of your collection.

He's all human, just plain gristle, flesh an' blood like you and me, but he acts like a machine. He spends most of his time gunning down people with a machine rifle, turning them into puddles of slimy gunge right in the middle of the floor so you can't get them off with Flash. He's big, he's got lots of guns and scientists have discovered that he has absolutely NO BRAIN. Well, whaddya expect?