If you like nothing more than to relax in front of the television and watch endless re-runs of reality cop shows, then Smash Cops Heat might just be the game for you. It's a top-down racer where the action's viewed from the perspective of a TV helicopter, and your role as an enforcer is to catch up to the criminals in your police car, shunt away at them, and destroy their vehicle before you yourself sustain too much damage amidst the traffic and rubble of the city.
Just racing around and smashing into a single car all day would probably get a little boring after a while, but fortunately there's a handful of different challenges to spice things up. Apart from the felon-hunting, there are obstacle courses to be negotiated, as well as suspect drop-offs that have to be completed within a fixed period of time. Sometimes you'll even be the hunted with criminal cars attempting to take you down.
As you make progress through all of these mission types you earn stars, and the better you perform in each challenge then the more stars you'll earn. Get enough of them and you can unlock new police vehicles that move a little faster, or cause greater damage when you smash into the side of these criminals-at-large.
There's a nifty control scheme for getting around in each of the police cars. Holding your finger down just behind the vehicle causes it to accelerate, while moving that held-down finger steers the car left and right. Get in close to a felon, and you can hit the ram button to dole out some damage, particularly effective when you can smash them from the sides and start a chain collision with other cars and debris.
The only real problem with the controls is the placement of that ram button, and on an iPad in particular it can be a struggle to...
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