Despite the gameplay complaints, on the technical side, it's a pretty amazing thing what VD Dev has done with this game, creating a small scale version of New York City complete with many of the town's landmarks and placed it all on the DS while running at an incredibly smooth frame rate. Some minor glitches can be seen mostly in the form of graphical tearing when shooting, but for the most part, your experience tooling around New York City will be a smooth one. Whether you're checking out Flushing Meadows or Ground Zero, the various sights of the Big Apple are recognizable and faithfully reproduced. Unfortunately for all that the game does right in reproducing the city's physical characterstics, the town seems strangely dead. There are plenty of pedestrians and traffic but there's no human interactions and the traffic seems robotic in how it moves so smoothly. What is supposed to come off as a bustling metropolis ends up looking like a moving backdrop.

The various cars you can drive around are also well done from a technical perspective with plenty of variation in how they look and handle. Unfortunately the cars have a limited lifespan and you'll fail many the mission in a fiery crash due to various collisions. Even when driving a police car with your sirens on the other drivers won't get out of your way and if you hit a car in an upcoming lane, prepare to be stopped cold as you try and maneuver out of the way. With the traffic and collisions being so driver unfriendly the driving sections don't get a chance to shine unless you're taking part in the many off-road adventures, which is a shame given the obvious time spent on the city's vehicular inhabitants.

From a technical standpoint, C.O.P.:The Recruit is very impressive and tech-heads may find it worth checking out if only to see how smoothly it runs with such a large environment at play. There's also plenty of missions meaning that your time spent in the game will be on the higher side, however the headaches that come with navigating Dan Miles through his career as a police officer will undoubtedly drive off all but the most devoted sandbox genre junkies.