But it doesn’t always make for a massively fun game. This Is The Police 2 certainly makes great play of its hard-boiled credentials, and it doesn’t pull its punches with the less savoury side of crime prevention. That would be fair enough as some kind of statement on modern law enforcement. Weappy Studio seems to have deliberately made a game where you’re constantly on the back foot, under-resourced and letting crimes slip through your fingers like sand. Building loyalty is essential, too, so granting their tiresome requests can pay off in the long run.īalancing the needs of Sharpwood’s citizens with those of your own idiosyncratic workforce is a perpetual balancing act – and it’s one that you seem to get wrong an awful lot of the time. If they’re too tired, they might make a fatal mistake. It’s also necessary to take each officer’s energy level into consideration. Some officers are better suited to negotiating with perps, while others are a dab hand with the taser or truncheon you equipped them with. Each of these officers has their own strengths and peccadilloes, as well as an experience level that goes towards helping you access individual callouts. You’ll need that currency to outfit and replenish your depleting workforce. As reported crimes pop up all over the town, you must allocate your limited resources within 30 seconds or so, or else leave the crime unsolved and risk losing precious ring-pull currency at the end of the day. The officers you’ve assigned to that day’s shift are listed below in the form of cards. The hub of the game, once you’ve gotten through the drawn-out opening stretch, presents you with a neat diorama-like map of Sharpwood.
Its sparsely-animated comic book story sections are pretty well acted out, but the writing can be too flabby for its own good. If you’re not a fan of soaking up interminable tone-setting cutscenes filled with rambling non-sequiturs and a sprinkling of choice language, This Is The Police 2 won’t be for you any more than the first game was. As much an interactive narrative adventure as a true simulation, the game leans heavily on dialogue and mood to draw you into its gritty world. If you’re wondering why we’ve spent the first two paragraphs discussing the noirish setting of what is essentially a zoomed-out management sim, then we’re guessing you have no prior experience with This Is The Police. But he’s also a brilliant cop who’s singularly capable of whipping this snowbound US town into shape. At the outset of This Is The Police 2, Boyd is a deeply compromised, borderline broken character on the run from the Feds. Sheriff Reed soon makes the fateful decision to enrol the assistance of one Jack Boyd, the corrupt cop you controlled in the first This Is The Police game. She’s conscientious and competent, but far too meek to corral the motley crew of misogynistic knuckleheads that make up her police force. New Sharpwood sheriff Lilly Reed is way out of her depth.
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