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Updated: Smash Cops Heat

Police-chase action game Smash Cops Heat has been updated to support MFi game controllers.

Smash Cops has a really cool premise – the game tasks you with driving a police car on a mission to take down criminals and navigate crime scenes, and presents it in the form of a live news broadcast about the events you’re experiencing. Aside from looking and feeling really cool, this allows the current mission objectives to be laid out cleverly, with a cinematic presentation.


Beautiful and fun, with a cinematic presentation

Controls work reasonably well, in-game and in menus, with one exception: driving forward is handled by holding forward on the DPad or analog stick. While this works great with the analog sticks of the Extended layout controllers, holding forward and turning at the same time with the D-Pad feels a little more difficult than it should. It is not a deal-killer, but the game does play better with the Extended pads.

No matter which controller you have, this is still absolutely worth a download. It’s polished, fun, and free to play.