Police Stories

very fun and strategic game. best played in co-op c:

I have beaten the main storymode, not the DLC. The gameplay lures you in as a tactical SWAT 4 style game. However the game suddenly gains a difficulty spike, this is because this game is from the same genre as hotline miami, it is a top down shooter first and foremost. As a top down shooter it is a great game with a rather simple difficulty, the point is that you're supposed to reset, the game teaches you to think what is happening rather than just repeating the same muscle pattern like in the previously mentioned hotline miami. Making you reset and allowing you to change your equipment teaches you a specific path you are willing to take. The difficulty spike is used to indicate in the story that you and your partner are newbies, way in over their head. Just like a Cop in an anti corruption or organised crime units, you have to learn quick to run on adrenaline whilst making no mistakes, you have to be fast to be effective, you have to think to be able to be fast. I personally used the non-lethal path and ran around spraying the criminals with pepper spray and tazing the ones who were far away, using the camera and breaching charges to check bigger rooms for positions of the suspects and quickly reprehending them when they are shocked. Points are taken away for killing the suspects and citizens as the cops jobs is prioritise to save lives not take them. TLDR This game is trying to simulate the adrenaline rushes felt by the cops in the situations, dying is a punishment for inefficiency and loudness. Points are taken away because you're not intended to go in guns blazing, and every suspect alive is a witness to a crime.

My first top down shooter. Very great experience and can run on low end devices. Great mechanics that are easy to pick up but game still throws challenges at you. Decent story.

Good co-op game, best with keyboard and mouse!

its a hardcore realistic game and you have to use tactics and your partner correctly its a bit punishing but fun game

Co-op problems en mass. Invisible enemies, doors are open for one person not the other, not worth it. Even on discount overpriced.

People praise this for being realistic, but this is less of a simulator and a game of Simon says, and Simon says an enemy turns a corner and shoots your pacified enemy dead. Simon says your next 5 bullets dance around the enemy, but good luck not getting shot before bullet 6 lands. Simon says turn a corner and yell at an enemy while another shivs your partner in the back. Shoot the suspect that's opened the door while holding a gun. Aha! Simon didn't say, so you have to restart the mission to get all your points. Oh and Simon says get shot by an invisible enemy. Fuck Simon Says.

What's the difference between a game and a police officer? One has troubleshooting.

Funny and good game. A bit difficult cause you really have to plan and play and not just run in guns blazing. Played it with my partner and loved it.

nice game, got it on discount. online coop was sometimes buggy, but most of the time playable. we enjoyed it and are excited for Police Stories 2

Fun game, enemies are a bit too fast and accurate to the point that it is downright unfair. However, you can overcome this challenge with determination and by trying out different tactics and gadgets. You'll get the hang of it yet. Story is simple yet effective, gameplay sees you rescueing hostages, disabling bombs, capturing or shooting bad guys. You can't go in guns blazing because civvies will die, but if you take too long to recognise the situation you could be blasted by criminals.

You want to play this game to be a policeman. This game will make you Judge Dread. Everyone is guilty and shot on sight, unless you need one more arrest to unlock the next level.

Solid lil indie. Was pleasantly surprised at the lvl of depth of seriousness the combat requires at times. Game becomes easy towards mid to late game with the equipment you get. Generally a great time all around. Fun with friend.

A little bit difficult in the beginning, but it's easy once we have good equipment.

Checked out of the story almost immediately since it opens by just referencing Se7en and the gameplay was too clunky for my liking.

great game but always keep the ai on passive or else your going to lose tons of points to him commiting suicide with an enemy behind a corner

If you've already played the game you can read this! [spoiler]Mission 1-17: Man this game is really cool it's like hotline miami but with more strategy, and even a cool story! this is awesome! [/spoiler] [spoiler] Mission 18: THATS how it ends? (Did my boy John dirty) [/spoiler]

Game is fun and hard which is good but maybe you should consider holding it together with something stronger than pubic hair and scotch tape before you make another game. Would still recommend just be prepared to reload your game 300 times due to bugs if playing with a friend.

Enemy AI is ridiculously difficult, and all criminals can basically one shot you. The game also has a needlessly strict point system which deducts points if you shoot criminals before they point their gun at you. My brother in christ, some of them literally look like a terrorist, do cops have to be so kind to receive authorization before shooting? The game has too many elements that negatively affects the player, and even though the gunplay is good, those elements just suck out the fun of this game.

Extremely unstable and crashes often.

great game but this game is hard one hit and you're dead sometimes 2 if you're lucky

You're (supposedly) an experienced pair of cops, who miss every second shot. Your enemies are random shitheads from street gangs who [b]always[/b] shoot perfectly and have inhuman reaction time. You're (supposedly) wearing an armor west, which doesn't do anything and you die from 1 shot. They wear t-shirts and regularly tank 2 hits and still manage to kill you. Game is (supposedly) playable in single player, but AI is retarded and just follows you without helping. You can give simpliest orders and even them he sometimes fucks up. For example, I have no idea what does "cover" order means because he just looks where I told him to for 1 second and then just continues following me and I've seen him fuck up a flashbang throw that almost blinded me (and blinded him). Game has rank system that gives you rank based on how good you've finished the mission, but I've finished mission 2 almost perfectly with 1 small penalty for injure and got C+. In normal game that is a rank for almost a failed mission with shitton of mistakes. That wouldn't be a problem normally, but in this game you have to meet specific (and very unrealistic) score bar to even unlock next mission. Fuck this game.

pretty good, even in single-player

hotline miami and ready or not COMBINED

Pretty nice game

its a hotline miami clone

veery good game

I played for about an hour and now I have PTSD...

good game!

very good,

Great game

yes good gam

ACAB

intense.

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