Cop Bastard

A retro shooter that's exactly as aggressively weird as you'd expect

- Robin Valentine

Sometimes in this job, my decisions are easy. I see a game called Cop Bastard has released a demo, of course I download and play that demo. Simple. The question is, is there anything to it beyond a very good name? The answer: sort of?

Set in '90s Japan, but seemingly taking most of its cues from Hong Kong action movies, Cop Bastard casts you as... well, a cop who's kind of a bastard, having decided to just murder his way through an entire building full of criminals.

That makes for some retro shooter action - not quite boomer shooter, but in an older realm of fast-paced, uncomplicated blasting. You enter a room, you shoot whoever's in it, you hoover up ammo, and then you sprint into the next room.