Some nice artwork and music with weak story, repetitive gameplay, and developers seemingly trying to use the cover of the 80s setting to showcase their own racist ideas while doing little to take advantage of the setting, even with opening text about taking inspiration from aspects of 80s TV that doesn't fit the game at all. I saw some Miami Vice, and I wish this was a game about going after Reb Brown's vengeance fueled biker gang.
You play as a former detective demoted to a beat cop after it is believed that he stole a senator's diamonds during a shootout at his house. Every day you are given tickets to write and possibly other tasks to perform as well as a side job you can take for the Italian mob or a black gang faction while also trying to follow the main story plotlines and running into other side events scheduled for that day. The daily tasks structure typically allows you to easily complete everything in each day except for the mafia and gang jobs that you might want to ignore or handle in different ways to balance your reputation with them and the police, cop reputation is easy to increase just by doing your tasks but activities can frequently lower the other factions reputation or might have you losing rep with one to gain with the other. One of your main police tasks a day might have you writing 5, 10, 12, etc tickets and by the days end I've typically written 20-30+ and done every main and side activity I wanted to. There is a lack of variety to everything that you are doing 90% of the time outside of story or sidequest events as all the calls to chase a criminal or tagger are identical, there is almost no variety to conversations when you write people tickets. This becomes stranger when you can take bribed and the undercover agents looking to report you for corruption always say the exact same thing so you can know which bribes it is ok to take. The main loop of writing tickets, chasing a couple criminals a day, and making an awkward mix of running and walking to maintain stamina feels like it would belong well in a more artistic project exploring the drudgery of life and work.
Portrays itself as representing a more culturally offensive 80s police film/show period but it clearly portrays black characters with much more frequent racism, as caricatures eating watermelon outside their apartment's, and as the violent criminals that you are typically running down to arrest and the only ones you are shooting as well as being much more likely to refer to every race by the most offensive terms while the white Italian mobsters are called greaseballs and meatball suckers. The cops you work with are all portrayed as on the take, racists, misogynists, as constantly harassing other cops or people, with no other characteristics making a fairly dull story worse as no one is remotely likable or interesting and it typically feels like it was written by the kind of people in their 20-30s idolizing made up versions of shows like All In the Family where they would want a modern version where Archie Bunker is the hero.
Two of the possible endings has you raising your reputation enough to join the mob or gang. though I don't really know how a fairly high profile cop and non Italian white guy just joins the mob or an all black gang typically committing low level street crimes and radio thefts.
Screenshots: https://twitter.com/Legolas_Katarn/status/1752188487854698635
You play as a former detective demoted to a beat cop after it is believed that he stole a senator's diamonds during a shootout at his house. Every day you are given tickets to write and possibly other tasks to perform as well as a side job you can take for the Italian mob or a black gang faction while also trying to follow the main story plotlines and running into other side events scheduled for that day. The daily tasks structure typically allows you to easily complete everything in each day except for the mafia and gang jobs that you might want to ignore or handle in different ways to balance your reputation with them and the police, cop reputation is easy to increase just by doing your tasks but activities can frequently lower the other factions reputation or might have you losing rep with one to gain with the other. One of your main police tasks a day might have you writing 5, 10, 12, etc tickets and by the days end I've typically written 20-30+ and done every main and side activity I wanted to. There is a lack of variety to everything that you are doing 90% of the time outside of story or sidequest events as all the calls to chase a criminal or tagger are identical, there is almost no variety to conversations when you write people tickets. This becomes stranger when you can take bribed and the undercover agents looking to report you for corruption always say the exact same thing so you can know which bribes it is ok to take. The main loop of writing tickets, chasing a couple criminals a day, and making an awkward mix of running and walking to maintain stamina feels like it would belong well in a more artistic project exploring the drudgery of life and work.
Portrays itself as representing a more culturally offensive 80s police film/show period but it clearly portrays black characters with much more frequent racism, as caricatures eating watermelon outside their apartment's, and as the violent criminals that you are typically running down to arrest and the only ones you are shooting as well as being much more likely to refer to every race by the most offensive terms while the white Italian mobsters are called greaseballs and meatball suckers. The cops you work with are all portrayed as on the take, racists, misogynists, as constantly harassing other cops or people, with no other characteristics making a fairly dull story worse as no one is remotely likable or interesting and it typically feels like it was written by the kind of people in their 20-30s idolizing made up versions of shows like All In the Family where they would want a modern version where Archie Bunker is the hero.
Two of the possible endings has you raising your reputation enough to join the mob or gang. though I don't really know how a fairly high profile cop and non Italian white guy just joins the mob or an all black gang typically committing low level street crimes and radio thefts.
Screenshots: https://twitter.com/Legolas_Katarn/status/1752188487854698635