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  • Summary: This Is the Police is a strategy/adventure game set in a city spiraling the drain. Youll come face to face with the ugly underbelly of Freeburg, taking the role of gritty Police Chief Jack Boyd (portrayed by Jon St. John, the voice of Duke Nukem).

    Dive into a deep story of corruption,
    This Is the Police is a strategy/adventure game set in a city spiraling the drain. Youll come face to face with the ugly underbelly of Freeburg, taking the role of gritty Police Chief Jack Boyd (portrayed by Jon St. John, the voice of Duke Nukem).

    Dive into a deep story of corruption, crime and intrigues. You are taking the role of gritty Police Chief Jack Boyd youll come face to face with the ugly underbelly of Freeburg, a city spiraling the drain. Will Jack see his retirement with a nice sum of money waiting to be spend or will he end up broken or even worse?

    Immerse yourself in a controversial tale of corruption, crime, and political intrigue. 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 youll be responding to a developing crisis at a crime scene, or negotiating with Freeburgs crime bosses. Sometimes youll 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? Or will you land yourself behind bars or worse?
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  1. Dec 20, 2018
    40
    The biggest issue, outside of the odd UI hiccup and impenetrable mechanical logic, is that TITP pretends to offer a scathing commentary about the human condition, but it’s bite is toothless.
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  1. Apr 12, 2019
    6
    I was quite excited in the beginning. You start as policeman who works in police department which was involved in some mafia things - nice.I was quite excited in the beginning. You start as policeman who works in police department which was involved in some mafia things - nice. Game looks pretty nice because of its style and a bit comic polling like dialogues. It also looks like you can make some choices, you can pick answer in a few situations which looks like you have freedom of what you are doing. Game mainly focus on managing police units, sending them to the different situations, decising how many will go and if the case needs more experienced workers or just regular policemans. If you do a good job your people will get more experience points and the office will be happier and more keen on some of your requests. If you will fail too many times - effect will be completely different. All looks fine in the beginign, you can fried bad working cops, develop them etc. But you are also forced to work with mafia. In theory you have ability no to cooperate with them but actually you have to if you don't want to end your game to early. Game gives you fake feeling that you have control of anything and that your choices can really matter. Everything is going fine and suddenly your policeman says he wants to spend more time with family and he just disappear. Developers tried to make the game look harder just by taking some things from you without really big reason.
    HUD is quite small for iphones, you can't make the time go faster which is a big deal since you spend a lot of time just looking on screen and waitng for some calls to pop up and send cops. Cutscenes are pretty annoying since they are slow and in most cases they are really not important after all. The music - you either hate it or love it.
    In my first take I died after 19 days of working. And what to do after it? You just start the whole game from the beginning. With the same missions, same story. Game had potential to be pretty fun and it could really show struggling cop who can't decide either to play fair or work with mafia - and we get game with limited choices, repetitive story and nothing that holds you to play it. Not really worth money
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