It is really fun to balance necessity of sending cops with keeping some around for upcoming issues.

On the other hand, if you send too many cops out at once you won't have any available cops to tend to any new calls that come up. If you do not send enough cops, or they are too inexperienced, you will be unsuccessful and the suspect will escape. If you send the correct amount of experienced cops you are successful on the call and gain points. This can sometimes take several in-game days to decipher.Īs you play through the virtual days you choose to send cops on calls. You then have to piece the photos together to get the whole story. You assign some detectives to the case who gather witness reports and then give you photos of what may have happened. My favourite part of the simulation is when you get to investigate crimes. From scheduling the two shifts of cops, to sending cops on calls, to even allowing your officers the day off or not. The majority of the gameplay takes place in your day-to-day management of the police force. You make decisions that are supposed to affect the game, and in essence they will effect if Jack will get to his eventual goal. Between simulation moments you live Jack's life and see how the city of Freeburg is run. This is where the story of the game really takes off. Jack's goal is to leave the force with a cool half a million dollars so he can live out his days in peace, or at least in some level of comfort befitting someone who has been in the public's eye for so long. Who knew policeman would have to be forced to retire eh? You take the role of Jack Boyd, an aging police chief who who has just been told that he is being forced to retire in 180 days.

Yes, you heard me right, you manage a police force. This is the Police is a police management simulation game. Well, not until I played This is the Police. But I've never run a police force before. I've even simulated off world colonies and prisons.

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