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Feature: Stop, in the name of the bore
It’s interesting how often cops crop up as heroes. Not unsurprising, as the fantasy makes sense in a macho, often politically dubious sort of way. It's not one of mine, however. As such, I'm glad Rebel Cops steps away from it a little. In this turn-based, tactical, XCOM-ish spin-off from This Is The Police, your cops are indeed rebels, rallying against systemic injustice. Admittedly, it's…
Feature: Boys in blue
It's just 180 days until Jack Boyd's retirement in This is the Police. He's the chief of police who has to juggle many balls and not drop one, otherwise everything goes horribly wrong. The mayor is breathing down his neck constantly, while his staff plead for time off to volunteer at the animal sanctuary, all the while the crooks are plaguing the city.
This Is The Police spin-off Rebel Cops is law-enforcement XCOM
In This Is The Police, corruption was easy. Sitting pretty at the top, skewing your officer's patrols to help funnel the right folk into the right jails and the proceeds into your pocket? That's all in a day's work, really. Someone like that needs taking down a peg. Enter, Rebel Cops. With nasties in the town hall and your squad waging a guerrilla war, it…
Feature: Lights, camera, rock, paper, shotgun!
The Monday Matinee: Highlights from the RPS video department
In case you live under a mossy rock, or aren't subscribed to Rock Paper Shotgun on YouTube (if not, why not?), I've got you covered. It's the weekly round-up of everything that happened last week on our channel. We do have our very own video corner on the site, so be sure to check back to that throughout the week to see what we're up…
Feature: I fought the law and the law fell into a big custard pie
Video: This Is The Police 2 is like trying to win XCOM with the cast of Police Academy
As a great scientist once said (or maybe it was Jeff Goldblum): “A butterfly can flap its wings in Peking and in Central Park you get rain instead of sunshine.” Meanwhile, in This Is The Police 2 an idiot cop empties pepper spray into their own eyes and a woman burns to death because I don’t have enough law enforcers to answer her distress call.…
This Is The Police 2 busts down the door and launches two days early
Sooner than expected (better than delayed because they forgot to press the button, I guess), This Is The Police 2 - sequel to morally messy police management RPG This Is The Police - is out now. Below, the rather intense launch trailer, suggesting that things might be a little more Fargo than Northern Exposure up in these colder climes. Just because you're out of the…
Videogames provide us with a great many escapist fantasies, like home ownership, and the opportunity to travel. Another dream that seems to exist only in the realm of games is a police force sans corruption, or at least the opportunity to run one without embezzling too much cash or threatening to remove anyone's kneecaps. We've long heard sirens on the horizon from tactical police management sequel…
Woop woop! That’s the sound of This Is The Police 2. It's rolling in here with a megaphone and a page from an old Argos catalogue held up like it's a warrant. Damn pigs. Looks like they’re here to show off another trailer. What is it this time? Another look at the antagonistic and corrupt law enforcement officers, I’ll bet. No, wait. It’s a deeper…
Freeze! Put your hands on the keyboard! That’s it, nice and slow. What? No, I won’t show you my badge. I’m a certified law officer, I’ve played several hours of police management sim This Is The Police. And you know wh-- hands on the keyboard please, sir – you know what else? A sequel is coming out. This Is The Police 2 is due for…
Feature: This Is A Review!
I was waging war against the mafia – and they did not know it. The idiots kept telling me any time they had a 'big job' planned. They would then offer me big money in a brown envelope to ignore it. But as the chief of police, I could not be bought. I would use their little pre-warning to make sure I had enough officers…
This Is The Police Delayed For A Week After Publisher Forgets To Press Button On Steam
Cop management sim This Is the Police [official site] was supposed to be released today but has been pushed back because the publisher forgot to press a button on Steamworks - the publishing side of Valve's digital store. The game will now be released next week, the developers have said. And the folks responsible seem very, very embarrassed.
