This Is the Police

released on Jul 27, 2016

Jack Boyd, beloved police chief of Freeburg, has 180 days before he's forced to retire. But Jack won't be going out quietly. Over the next six months, he'll be going all out to fulfill a dream: earn half a million dollars, any way he can. That might be play money for a corrupt cop, but up until now, Jack has been playing by the book. Even with overtime, in six months he wouldn't make fifty grand. But a police chief has access to all sorts of… informal income. Bribes, weapons and drug sales, deals with the Mafia, skimming off the budget, kickbacks – you name it. And Jack is tired of playing nice. He's is ready for anything, but only you can decide how far he'll go.


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Como uma pessoa que ama a área policial, iniciei This is the police com uma certa expectativa do que poderia diferenciar o tema corrupção do jogo com os outros conteúdos amplamente divulgados e apesar dos erros, é necessário dizer que a Weappy conseguiu mudar a ótica e aprofundar de uma forma bem mais interessante do que imaginei.
O enredo do jogo é bem mais complexo do que apenas “um chefe de policia que sonha em ganhar dinheiro” é algo sobre moralidade, duvidas, a falsa sensação de justiça e perfeição ao mesmo tempo que adiciona uma grande interferência pessoal, pois no fim do dia é impossível separar toda a sua vida em áreas e esquecer uma ou outra assim que chegamos a um local. Somos pessoas, humanos imperfeitos que julgam e são julgados diariamente, temos a necessidade egoísta de elogios, amor, expectativas e acreditamos muitas vezes na sensação de necessidade e altruísmo, coisas que já estão corrompidas socialmente.

“Você não é como eles porque só está roubando meio milhão?”
Mesmo com uma parte gráfica considerada inferior, This is the police entrega bem mais do que jogos com gráficos realistas, o trabalho de voz e a própria utilização do som ambiente são elementos que conseguem captar a atenção do jogador a todo momento, chegando até mesmo ao nível de captar o sentimento de raiva, ódio, tristeza e felicidade. Inclusive, quero deixar meus parabéns para os responsáveis de dar a vida a Lana e Jack, o sentimento afetuoso e livre é bem difícil de alcançar somente com a narração, mas quando existe um trabalho impecável é um caminho sem volta.
Infelizmente, a narrativa intensa quase não consegue segurar a gameplay decadente. O sistema de gerenciamento não é ruim, as notificações e telefonemas são muito bem escritos, porém, imagine repetir a mesma coisa por 180 dias, com 10 dias sendo em média 1 (uma) hora... Já deu pra perceber que o maior problema de Police é algo bem recorrente em gerenciadores não é mesmo?
A repetição nas primeiras 5 horas de campanha não é tão óbvia, mas acaba se tornando um ponto de virada na reta final e tudo o que faz o jogador continuar se prendendo é a dúvida do que acontecerá com o protagonista, coisa que também não chega a ser uma surpresa, pois só temos duas certezas na vida e a principal se encontra bem representada na obra.

“Você ficou quieta por um tempo, depois riu e disse que eu seria o seu herói...”
No fim, This is the police representa com louvor um tema extremamente comum na sociedade e ao mesmo tempo mostra que a nossa redoma de justiça social não passa de um sistema em apodrecimento que vai voltar para nos pegar em algum momento da vida. Além disso, ele também consegue mostrar como a nossa existência é insignificante e em como somos facilmente manipulados pelo sentimento, seja ele qual for.

Um simulador de chefe de policia bem enfadonho, que todavia se justifica pelo seu final justo e mesquinho. Nem todas as historias tem finais felizes e nem todos os jogos são feitos para serem vencidos, esse é um deles.

I wanted to like this game so much more. If it was cut in half, this would be a fantastic game. The story could be considered by the numbers nonetheless, I liked Jack quite a bit, and his life slowly spiraling even more out of his control is an intriguing ride. The voice actors gave a solid performance, especially Jack’s voice actor. The soundtrack is enjoyable plus giving the option to pick your songs for each day is a nice touch.
The gameplay is compelling at the beginning. Trying to optimize which people to send, how many and to try and catch false alarms so you don’t waste your time is intriguing, but for the 50-60 days. After that it quickly gets monotonous. And while I like the story, the story moments are so far away from each other, that you could be playing day after day, with nothing changing in the meantime. By the end of it, I was going as fast as possible through the day, so I can get it over with. I had an army of officers not caring if they died or not.
If you want a police management game, that you can play and do something else simultaneously (that’s what I started doing from the middle of the game) I would recommend it, especially if it’s on sale.

So very slow to play
Would NEVER RECOMMEND ANYONE, it felt such a slog to get through and I'm glad it's over

I haven't played this game too much but that's for a reason. It has so much potential, the soundtrack is amazing, I like the story to an extent (Although some things fall flat). The whole point of the game (or at least what it seems to be when you first play the game) is that you manage police officers and send them out on calls to stop criminals and such, along with variations of crimes (both serious and funny in tone depending) and political figures you can use to your advantage (like the Mafia, City Hall, etc). But theres one major problem I have with this game. After you're done there isn't much to do or much left, I mean sure you could replay the story again and there's also sandbox mode but I mean sandbox mode feels like a tacked on thing with less effort than the story. It's not like others where you can choose which ties you have or what special crimes you have to solve or anything, it just kinda starts you out and that's it. Some more customization would have added to the replayability of sandbox mode, then you have the problem where they add extra difficulty to the game per week or something. When I play sandbox mode, I want to be able to choose what I can do and my difficulty, not have to go on some pre set challenge mode. With all of those complaints aside I do love this game, and I would highly recommend anyone try it, at least for the single player. But just be aware there are a lot of great ideas but some execution missteps.

I liked the game. I am not disappointed by it, but I have to say that the game is way too long. Up to day 100 it was interesting and I was invested. After that it was a grind and constant replays of levels to get a better random drops. The last part may be my fault because I did not manage to keep the good relationship with the mayor's office, but the game doesn't tell you many important things about how to run things.
I liked the story and the choices that you have to make. The puzzles are decent up to the day 100, after that they become impossible to figure out without internet, as you don't get enough clues to correctly place the frames.
There is also poker in this game, which I don't know how to play, but this time I said that I will not skip poker again and I actually learnt how to play, and it was quite fun, except the last guy who drags the game for way too long.
The ending is underwhelming. After all, I got 1066000$ which was like twice the target and the ending was still bad (there is no good ending).