Dive into a deep story of corruption, crime and intrigue. Take the role of gritty Police Chief Jack Boyd, and come face to face with the ugly underbelly of Freeburg, a city spiraling the drain. Will Jack reach his retirement with a nice stack of bills, or will he end up broken ... or worse?
Manage your staff, respond to emergencies, and investigate crimes in a city on the brink of chaos. The mafia underworld maneuvers behind the scenes, sinking their claws ever deeper into the city, even as the mayor is ready to exploit every situation to his political advantage.
Choose your approach to each situation as it unfolds. Sometimes you’ll be responding to a developing crCIA at a crime scene, or negotiating with Freeburg’s crime bosses. Sometimes you’ll find yourself dodging questions in the press room, or even the occasional cross-examination in the witness box. Can you keep this pressure cooker from exploding, at least for long enough to stash away a nice retirement nest egg?
this is the police is a very film noir with corruption everywhere and being a good cop is objectively harder. it's a cliche drama-cop story type of game, with good voice acting & dialogue going hand-in-hand with the better storytelling. the gameplay may feel slow waiting for a crime to occur, but it makes up for it with plenty of random events, and sometimes you can choose yourself what to do/say in them. there can also be a lot of humorous (depending on your view of humor) moments such as deciding whether or not to use police brutality at feminist/LGB protests, and the ability to conduct investigations yourselves after your detectives have spent days gathering the pieces of a crime (which you will also have to arrange in chronological order), but i've heard that the core gameplay is pretty addictive.
there are even certain moments where you may be hard pressed to fire/act against certain cops or target a type of police officers (such as by race or gender & more) or reject to maintain justice & righteousness and face the repercussions
the game has received mostly positive reviews (very positive on steam!), but a couple of reviewing sites are giving it a 3 or 4 out of 10 due to the options it gives you against a few minority events
the game devs, weappy studio, is also from minsk, belarus, a country that's rather known for having harsh corruption problems & dictatorship-esque conditions
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