At the title of this game I remembered the text of the hip-hop group Chaozz, where she sang: "Police, police! Everything here is corrupting it! "It quite well describes the content of the adventure with the elements of the strategy that introduced us for the second time between the law enforcement officers, and so we went back to the police department, waiting for new cases on the office desk and a small bribe in the hidden envelope. so in the cold town of Sharpwood (and not only there) she just goes.
This time, young Sheriff Lilly Reed is in the forefront, and she has been well-acclaimed by Sarah Hamilton, known from The Longest Journey, in numerous premier comic-style scenes. And, at the same time, the same, even bigger space was given to the old known, former Freeburg police chief, Jack Boyd, once again well-spoken by Jon St. John of Duke Nukem. These two characters co-operate on cases, and Boyd is particularly interested in the player, who balances the gap between law and crime. And if Lilly is head of the department, Jack is the neck that rotates her and decides virtually everything that's going on.
In practice, this means you will be conducting a police corps and looking at staff, service divisions, sentinels sent to the streets and tactical interventions. Most of these activities have been able to get to know the original game, but something has come to pass, so you can also enjoy tough fighting missions. But the basis is a daily routine that involves obligatory activities. And it starts with a selection of cops who will serve and assign them the proper equipment in the form of batons, sprays and pistols, if violence can not be avoided.
Your subordinates have different personalities, their bright and shady pages. They can go around so they do not have to go into service and you either do it or not. Based on this and negotiation in certain situations, you build relationships and can be loyal or vice-versa and unreliable. For the most part, you can report them to Lilli, but you will have fewer staff. Fortunately, you can also hire new men (and women). But it is still necessary to think that the same people do not serve too often and for a few days in a row because they will be dissatisfied and have less energy.
Sending service users to locations on the map where reports of events that require police assistance appear. Many are time-limited, and if you exceed a few-second limit and do not specify timely police officers, it is considered to be your failure, and you will be counted at the end of the day. So he will deduct - for deigned or unfulfilled tasks or killed civilians - lose their menu to the department - beer cans, for which you can hire new staff or buy basic police equipment. On the contrary, for successful interventions and the protection of the population, the closures are increasing. However, it is not easy to interfere in several places almost simultaneously. Although they are less reported in the first few days, they are gradually rising and start to get hot.
Since you have a limited number of cops in the service, you have to divide them so that you have someone else to send them until the busy patrols are back. This is often a bizarre or bizarre case, which is not just about time. However, it is always necessary to send a patrol with sufficient, numerically expressed performance, which exceeds the severity of the situation. For example, an experienced cop can be accompanied by a pheasant who does not have many points. Then selecting the options when contacting the subject. The activities selected, as well as the particular cop who performs them, will determine the final result - a successful resolution or fatal failure, in which the perpetrator will fail and someone may perish. And as a result, the police are adding or subtracting their performance points and thus improving or exacerbating their effectiveness.
Policemen also gain levels, and you can continually improve them with basic attributes that include power, intelligence, but also enhance shooting, stealth, and bargaining ability. And they will also get perks. Accordingly, individual characters fit for various activities - contact, hostage-free, persecution. But also for a detective investigation, in which they receive new information, materials and photographs, which, when correctly arranged, lead to new findings.
The game is mostly about police base management and numerous large-scale scenes that come close to it, but sometimes they are unnecessarily stretched. Well they can skip. It can be a card game with a colleague, but especially a tug-of-war, which is a novelty. They occur only occasionally in selected missions where you can send any police service. Sometimes this is preceded by a multi-day tactical training that requires some information and equipment for the team or a specific subject, such as a key.
Just before the fight, you choose a policeman for four perks, which vary according to the team parameters. In addition, you can get information from some witnesses, so you can find out how many gangsters are, or where traps are trapped. But it requires specific items - boot, player, jewelery or marijuana. You get these things as a reward besides money in voluntary missions for local residents. They can also be bought at a store and sometimes found right during the fight.
Finally, the action itself is the way you control the cops with their initial position in the car. Everyone can do two activities in a round, which is usually an attack, throwing a door, or arresting a criminal and doing it. Policemen have quite a variety of options that also depend on what they have. After the enemy, they can shoot from a sharp weapon, and you can determine which part of the body they are targeting. It can be head, which is a death, but also a hand, so the gangsters just disarm, or the foot to escape. You're about to kill a criminal with a knife.
In addition, a defensive spray, electric shock or baton can be used in the mission, that is, things that temporarily paralyze the target, but do not kill. Then you should use the command to put your hands, which has a hundred percent success after stunning. Perky police officers will be able to intervene more effectively, albeit less conspicuously, by quietly opening a door or window, persuading a criminal to give up, and the like. If you also have a sniper rifle on the mission, you have a top cover secured and you use the sniper when you need to eliminate the criminal immediately.
Although they are only a complementary activity, they have a surprisingly good foundation, and with minor adjustments they will also be in a full-fledged tactical game. They are a nice revival and a little reminded of XCOM, but still the game becomes a monotonous after a certain time. Everyday routines that repeat the same activities are short-lived soon. Although the situation is somewhat complicated by the exponents and the need to collect money to keep a hub. Well, that's just a short-term impulse. But at least you will be able to please the increasingly capable cops you are gradually raising. And you can wait until the final to learn how the main characters will come.
Graphics are once again simple and unusual - especially the pre-scene scenes capture their style resembling paintings with no detail. The characters are depicted without a face, but they are believable thanks to the already mentioned great dubbing, which you really enjoy blessing. Similarly, it was also in the first part, but creators modified some items and design in the management part of the game. As a whole it is interesting.
This is The Police 2 is in the spirit of the original game, but the creators have made a few minor adjustments and mainly involved pull-fighting. If you enjoyed the unit, you get exactly what you expect from it. But those fights can, but they do not have to be a plus for you because it is a bit of a mix of game genres. And if you have not found a way to This is the Police, neither the two will persuade you to go into it. In short, it is a title for those who do not discourage their distinctive gaming and visual style, which can be a problem for many. But there will also be players who will appreciate it all.
