Freeze! Put your palms on the keyboard! That’s it, good and gradual. What? No, I received’t present you my badge. I’m a licensed regulation officer, I’ve performed a number of hours of police administration sim This Is The Police. And wh– palms on the keyboard please, sir – what else? A sequel is popping out. This Is The Police 2 is due for launch “later this year”, say the builders. It’s set in a chilly, northern border city and places you within the position of a brand new sheriff known as Lilly Reed. Here’s a trailer organising among the characters and, uh, the tone?
Well, that fellow appears intense. Although it might be consistent with the developer’s description, which says that the sheriff’s underlings are “uncouth men who aren’t used to receiving commands from a young woman”. That sorry previous drunk can also be set to be an necessary character, a “mysterious stranger” who turns up within the city of Sharpwood with unknown motives.
Just like the primary sport, This Is the Police 2 is a combination of journey and administration genres, and this time it enjoys additional surprising mechanics that can strengthen each the strategic and tactical components of the sport. It received’t be sufficient simply managing the gear of your policemen and maintaining in thoughts their particular person abilities. Every problem requires the participant’s direct participation, and the outcomes will rely on each determination you make. Now your subordinates aren’t just a few useful resource; they’re residing folks with their very own strengths, weaknesses, fears and prejudices, and also you’ll need to reckon with all these items with a view to survive.
The first sport was iffy (as I wrote about it in this impressions piece). Parts of the neo-noir dialogue had me smiling, the art work is sharp and clear, and the thought is powerful. But a lot of the day-to-day work of police chief (which included numerous scenes of breakfast and getting within the automotive) was tedious. The story additionally compelled you down a sure path – that of a corrupt cop – which clashed with the clicky administration screens suggesting selection and freedom. It additionally danced across the problems with police brutality, corruption and discrimination in a characteristically videogame approach – depicting all of these items as actuality whereas concurrently making no concrete political observations about any of it.
But it did have its moments. You have been all the time stretched for sources and sometimes needed to make selections – to let artwork vandals off the hook so you possibly can try a attainable theft, or to rent out your officers to an organization for the night so that they’ll donate some money to the station. You reply questions in a press convention, and the following day’s newspaper echoes your feedback again to you. It’d be good if the sequel can construct on these strengths.
Oh, sorry. I used to be being a policeman, wasn’t I. Right, off you go. Fix your ‘Page down’ key. Bye.
