Police Stories

A very enjoyable game that is a very obviously trying to translate SWAT 4 gameplay into a 2D top-down shooter. The goal is to go non-lethal and arrest criminals and civilians without having to kill anyone. It's a good game to come back to once in a while but it's not hghly replayable. It's just great the time it lasts.

The game that walked so the later games could run. In a way it is much more of a puzzle game because of how the game's scoring system works. You are slower and you ought to minimise casualties if you want a good score via the gadgets. Not that aggressive gameplay itself is easy. If you agitate enemies you will be gone in a few shots. In a way, the one life approach to levels would be interesting in other games even if I acknowledge it would suck for how the future went for the dev.

Honestly, I have seen people complain about the difficulty and npc's but as for me the game is amazing, I'm having tons of fun, there are many mechanics which are nice and I would recommend!

Great game, really fun, very hard too. Having to wait for the bad guys to be threatening before shooting makes it more realistic so that's good. Honestly good game but too many game breaking bugs. The game randomly soft locking or crashing after missions. Too bad.

Super buggy for co-op, it keeps crashing.

Great gameplay and awesome visuals, but for me it keeps crashing and the achievements in co-op are bugged.

enemies can pull guns and oneshot you in less than a second but you need to shoot them twice to drop them. your gun has a half second delay between your shots. meaning you cannot properly drop enemies unless you get lucky with them missing. shout and use being the same key is dogaids. you cannot rebind actions to mouse 3+. unlocking items and levels are both based on points meaning you will need to replay the first level to get a minimum C+ with the worst gear in the game for the next level to unlock.

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.

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.

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.

it's a perfect combination between hotline miami and tactical shooter. the game encourages players to follow police ROE, which is uniquely charming. the chaos in unpredictable behaviors of suspects and civilians is as real as a game can be. plus, there are hard-to-miss references to other games and movies.

I don't fully recommend it. It's fun enough, and it'd probably be more fun with a friend since your partner's AI is really dumb. The game can be a bit annoying—it's a little too unpredictable. For example, the warning shot system seems like a good idea, but most of the time it doesn’t work. It's usually easier to either just shoot if they don’t comply or, honestly, go with the overall best solution: rush and melee everyone. That solved about 80% of the game for me, and the other 20% can be handled with a flashbang or another grenade. I’d also criticize the game for demanding perfection and grading you, despite being far from perfect itself. But once you figure out the melee meta, getting max scores is easy peasy. The item system is really boring. I heard there’s gonna be a second game—hopefully it expands on the positive aspects of this. The story is...a real nothing. The pixel art in them is great, but it's such a by the books thing that you probably have seen a million times, the leads are likeable enough. Also, sucks you can't pick a lead, I prefer Rick, he was my fav char in the entire game.

Good game, very methodical, but a tad bit too realistic that it feels frustrating at times. The dumb AI partner is only good for carrying extra gear since he usually gets one-shotted in combat. Story is kinda predictable, so I'd say most of the fun comes from the gameplay. The learning curve is fairly steep, but the tactics that finally got me A+ rating for all levels was "borescope/flashbang/breaching charge/smoke grenade the room, rush in with pepper spray/taser/melee attack to arrest everybody, rinse and repeat." Such gameplay loop was quite fun, especially as I unlocked more useful gear. The hard part is not skipping steps and get shot in the back since you can die in 2 hits. Pepper spray is OP, shouting for surrender is usually useless (in fact don't use it at all; enemies rarely surrender, just hit them with pepper spray/taser/melee for guaranteed pacification), and just use whatever gear slot you have left for room-clearing utilities. PS: I got A+ all levels and 100% achievements in 4 hours, but only because I already beat the game once on a pirated copy. For new players, it'd probably take around 8-12 hours to 100%. Definitely get this game on sale, but don't bother paying full price.

Fun and a bit short game, (if you ignore the "Zombie Case" DLC) similar to Door Kickers, which was the main reason why i bought it in a first place. Once you figure out how it works and how to get A+ it loses a bit of its magic.. A lot of equipment is just useless (same with your gun lmao). AI is your average Counter Strike opponent aka has insane reaction time, aimbot and wallhack, so you need to go silent, always. The spawns are a bit wonky and goofy since you will find everyone in the toilet almost all the time.. i get the random spawns but cmon, is everyone taking a piss at the same time or what?? Other than that, its good! (but don't buy the Zombies DLC its actually bad, made a separate review of it pointing out why)

Great game with great gameplay. It's not something I'd go and play over and over again. But it's definitely worth the money!

Loved this game, yeah it may look like Hotline Miami, but its still epic, the amount of times I accidentally shot a hostage lol deffo get this class game and add it to your catalogue, you wont be disappointed.

Walk in building with friend. Shout 'GET DOWN' repeatedly. If person gets down, arrest them, civilian or not. If they don't get down, execute them. Kill the wrong people, and get a slap on the wrist. Don't kill the right people, die instantly. Solution? Run everywhere screaming, shoot if in doubt, win every time. Police Stories is based on the fantasy that American cops have about their jobs. Scream conflicting orders, arrest everyone regardless of innocence, and anyone who doesn't immediately capitulate is killed. Builds into the typical cop fantasy of always being scared for their life, since you die in one hit, and rewards executing innocents more than it rewards caution. Probably a lot of fun if you think American cops are heroes with dangerous jobs.

If you played hot line Miami, this is the same but better. Only problem I run in is that support for controller is none existing, so it makes it almost impossible to play the local coop on PC(unless you wanna go for the struggle that is trying to set 2 mouse and keyboards in the same PC).

Such great potential but the police AI is so useless and gets bugged A LOT and it being a key part of the experience it being so bad really hurts it AND it makes it really hard to complete missions when the AI decides to go run into a room before a smoke or flash go's off or even just when you open the door then gets shot and dies it makes the rest of the level a lot more difficult and the AI is just kinda dumb at times and other times the enemy AI gets bugged and wont die but can still kill you also when you break a partly broken wall or window it has a sound effect but it does does not make a sound for the enemies so you can break a window with a enemy right on the other side and they wont even turn around then on the other hand if you dare open a door they will all instantly turn and face you there is also the fact that trapped doors are impossible to see if a particle effect is active because it literally go's stops the highlight and does not allow you to disarm it so you cant enter that room or you will simply die another issue i have with the game is the fact that police AI sometimes just walks past or ignores enemies for a example a running civ might run right past it but it wont even try to do anything about it rather it will go to where its last goal was then stop doing that then chase after the civ it is awful and due to the fact of this i end up just having the AI carry my grenades and a camera it is really annoying because the maps are pretty good and the idea of having a Ready Or Not like game set in a top down experience would be pretty good in my opinion to be clear i don't think the game is AWFUL but i do think it needs some work since the police AI is a really big part of it and with all its bugs it makes the game more annoying then fun so id wait to see if it improves before buying it and it is also prob a 3-4 hour experience if you get lucky and dont have to restart missions 100 times to do them because your AI did something stupid and died or just bugged out TLDR Game has a good concept but issues with the AI make me have to tell you to wait to buy it

Great game. Highly recommend playing with a friend cuz it makes the experience very much better.

I got this for a price that was frankly... criminal. A great, fast paced game that forces snap decisions and strategic approaches. The story is fun and schlocky, and the music is great. I've already recommended it to a few friends.

very fun, i like peaking a room and having the guys snap their necks to shoot me, great realism

ill just play hotline miami jesus christ, is that a civilian? nope just the world pistol quickdraw champion

Hotline Miami but playing as police in the 90s. Make sure to set the difficulty on 'Easy', 'Standard' difficulty is very difficult. >Tells NPC to get down on the ground >Still holding a weapon >Doesn't drop weapon >You have a literal second to react or be potentially shot or stabbed by the NPC >Lose points for 'Unauthorised use of force' ????????? >Cop partner gets shot and downed by NPC >Shoots NPC that shot at cop partner >Lose points for 'Unauthorised use of force' > -Repetitive annoying music -No time to react to some NPCs on 'Standard' default difficulty -Went into gameplay and lowered it to 'Easy' instead of 'Standard', the game became way easier instead of getting one shotted. The higher difficulty should not be the default. -Civilian NPCs randomly running around when you tell them to get on the ground -Get told the code is (insert 4 digits here) on the third level, but the game doesn't make it clear what it's for. -Forced slight motion blur effect -Game crashed on me during a cutscene lol

Way too difficult for absolutely no reason. Enemy shoots you so accurately, but your gun doesnt shoot accurate at all, making it impossible at times. When being charged at by an enemy with a melee weapon, you cant tell if theyre dangerous or not, if you shoot them and they're just running around its considered excessive force. Lots of potential, but unnecessarily difficult, making it horrible

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Short and sweet but addicting!

hotline miami police editon just as stressful but worth it

Bought on the sale, class wee game deffo recommend

The companion just isn't good enough for primetime. He wont breach, he most of the time refuses to fire his gun, he's actively suicidal and if you're trying to breach a door and he wants inside he will PUSH you into enemy gunfire. Yes it's co-op but that doesn't excuse it.

Got it for $3, beat it in 4 hours. Not bad.

Just buy hotline miami.

Fun but short game. Recommend only on sale.

i keep getting 10k ping for coop even tho my internet is fine and i use lan cable, my discord is green as fuck

Very funny. punching civilians

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.

This is one of the best police games ever made.

Server is bad 9999 ping Just let players self host if you have trash server

tezi ready or not, peak stories

dont play this game save your money. i promise its awful

Good Good. FBI simulator.

What a disaster. Make sure you don't shoot anyone.

very ver very very very very cool

veery good game

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

Fun game!

very nice

Miami Hotline x Siege

COPS MAN

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