Acorn User
1st August 1990
This is an adventure game based very loosely on the cult American show Hill Street Blues. In the briefing room at 6am (errgh!) you are told that the police chief has been kidnapped, and that you and your partner, named Rob O'Cop (groan!) are to investigate bullies taking kids' money from outside the school.
As things progress, you discover more and more about the kidnapping of the chief. Despite your rather diminutive posting, you are the one trying to solve the kidnapping, or not as the case may be.
Parsing gets the adequate mark but the replies are a little unhelpful and very repetitive. Where this adventure scores highly is in the quality of the puzzles. Just the right difficulty, for me anyway. Also very good is its system of getting input from the adventurer. On the Archimedes, words can be selected from any text on the screen by pointing the mouse and clicking. This is a brilliant idea that makes typing in long sentences a doddle. Just plucking the words from the screen eliminates the possibility of a fatal spelling mistake.
All in all, Cops was fun to play and complete, the latter only because I had the solution (Perks of the job!) but it may be a little overpriced.
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