Jack Boyd, beloved police chief of Freeburg, has 180 days before he's forced to retire. But Jack won't be going out quietly. Over the next six months, he'll be going all out to fulfill a dream: earn half a million dollars, any way he can. That might be play money for a corrupt cop, but up until now, Jack has been playing by the book. Even with overtime, in six months he wouldn't make fifty grand. But a police chief has access to all sorts of… informal income. Bribes, weapons and drug sales, deals with the Mafia, skimming off the budget, kickbacks – you name it. And Jack is tired of playing nice. He's is ready for anything, but only you can decide how far he'll go.
Set in the fictional American city of Freeburg in 1985, This Is the Police is an adventure and management game that follows Jack Boyd, the city's aging police chief. After a corruption scandal involving his deputy tarnishes the department's reputation, the corrupt Mayor Rogers moves to force the sixty-year-old Boyd into early retirement, giving him just one hundred and eighty days left on the job. Facing an uncertain future, Boyd resolves to build a half-million-dollar retirement fund before his time runs out, all while quietly doubting he can raise such a sum through honest means alone. Over his final six months, the player manages the daily grind of running the force, dispatching officers to crimes, prioritizing emergency calls, and juggling limited staff and resources. Every decision carries moral weight as Boyd is drawn toward tempting but dangerous opportunities, including dealings with the local mafia, testing how far a weary lawman will bend the rules to secure his own future.
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I swear the game is messing with me. - Got a deal with city hall that they will let me hire three more cops but one of them has to be son of the guy who made the deal with me. - I accept the deal. - A guy named Persly joins my shift A and he is horrible. (had only 5 points) - Not allowed to fire him so decided to pay the mafia to kill him. - The time comes to kill him and he doesn't show up for work, 1000$ wasted. - Decided to try again with the mafia hit. - Persly decides to take a vacation the day I was going to try to have him killed. - That same day I had three of my best cops all get murdered by some punk teenager who robbed a store. (one of them was ranked 1,200!) - Got pretty annoyed with the game and decided to close it out and play it later. - I get three steam trading cards. - ALL three of them are Persly. GG game... gg.
As the chief of the police department, your life has recently been thrown into disarray. Your wife has left you. The City Mayor seems no longer an ally. And as a chief who has always been transparent and free from corruption, you’re faced with the potential threat of the mafia. How you play out your time is now completely up to you. The core element in This Is The Police surrounds decisions and can be factored into two areas where you have the day to day running of the Police Department. You can hire and fire cops and decide who is worthy to attend to each call out. Work as a detective to solve cases more complex and in time, become involved with the Mafia if you so choose. This is just a handful of options available to you. The main game screen remains the same, however further choices present themselves through story screens. Graphically the game takes on a unique art design, almost c
A very wealthy man came up to me with an offer, he wants to fund the police station with enough money to support 3 new officer positions, with the condition that his son take up one of the slots, and I cannot fire him under any circumstance, I accepted his offer, and arranged for the mafia to kill him the very next morning, I then had the paperwork buried so nobody would know about his death, his paycheck now goes directly into my pocket every week. 10/10 game
This game comes loaded with promise. You play Chief of Police Jack Boyd, a hard-boiled old-school cop trying to get enough money to retire and survive a city full of gangs, political corruption, and apathetic citizens. It's very atmospheric, and I was drawn in almost immediately. The voice acting for Jack really helps set the scene, and there are lots of little touches that make the game's world feel real. At first. *MINOR SPOILERS FOLLOW* You see, this game gives you 180 days to get Jack to his goal of $500,000. I had met this goal by day 80, and even with some story-related time skips, the game drags and the story gets sparser and sparser until I felt like the developers hadn't had any idea how to wrap things up. Main plot threads are tied up in increasingly contrived manners and the game railroads the player in its final act into a forced binary choice about which corrupt, sleazy in
Overall score: 5/10 Did I get my money's worth?: Yes Recommended input: Keyboard/mouse I experienced a lot of mixed emotions in my time of playing This is the Police. Through story telling and haunting choices, the game handles immersion well and gives the actions of you and the character you represent, retiring police chief Jack Boyd, a ton of weight. The game's plot oozes severe situations, resulting in an overall bittersweet experience. Notice carefully that this isn't a "choose your own adventure" game, but a management game. You don't have the options to be a completely good or bad cop; your task in this game is to balance your play style as perfectly as possible. With that said, without spoiling anything, I'll tell you here what I wish I knew before buying this game: you have power, but you do not have control. What that means is that, when playing this game, you're never making
One of my officers asked me if she can stay home because she partied too hard and is drunk. I told her no. A few hours later the Mayor calls me and tells me they will cut my budget and I have to fire one officer. I told the drunk officer that she'll have to quit at the end of the day, but not before going out on one last mission. On the way there she had a car accident and died, because she was drunk driving. 10/10
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