Beat Cop

Outstanding game sitting in between a traditional point'n'click adventure and a police simulator, with a phenomenally evocative New-York-in-the-80s atmosphere and a top-class soundtrack. You play a disgraced detective demoted to patrol duties after (unfounded) allegations of being involved in a scandal. The game is organised in daily patrol shifts. Each day advances the story but also requires players to perform daily patrol tasks, including engaging/helping the community, issuing parking tickets, and responding to a variety of calls. You have a radio, a gun, handcuffs and a notebook to support your duties. Every shift is packed with stuff to do, so much so that, like in real-life police patrols, it's impossible to do everything. Players have to choose what to prioritise. Some of these choices will affect the storyline and the ending. The game has a brilliant saving system and allows you to replay every day, which is helpful if you think you made some wrong decisions. I loved the game so much that I got it also for mobile, and I played several hours (mostly on mobile). For me the possibility of replaying the game with entirely different choices/outcomes grants a great longevity to this title. However, I think this game is perfect for an endless mode in which we simply patrol the beat and respond to randomised calls/events. This shouldn't be difficult to achieve technically and I hope the publisher would consider adding this mode (also as a paid-for DLC). ---{ Graphics }--- ☑ You forget what reality is ☐ Beautiful ☐ Good ☐ Decent ☐ Bad ☐ Don‘t look too long at it ☐ MS-DOS ---{ Gameplay }--- ☑ Very good ☐ Good ☐ It's just gameplay ☐ Mehh ☐ Watch paint dry instead ☐ Just don't ---{ Audio }--- ☑ Eargasm ☐ Very good ☐ Good ☐ Not too bad ☐ Bad ☐ I'm now deaf ---{ Audience }--- ☐ Kids ☐ Teens ☑ Adults ☐ Grandma ---{ PC Requirements }--- ☑ Check if you can run paint ☐ Potato ☐ Decent ☐ Fast ☐ Rich boi ☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer ---{ Game Size }--- ☐ Floppy Disk ☑ Old Fashioned ☐ Workable ☐ Big ☐ Will eat 15% of your 1TB hard drive ☐ You will want an entire hard drive to hold it ☐ You will need to invest in a black hole to hold all the data ---{ Difficulty }--- ☐ Just press 'W' ☐ Easy ☑ Easy to learn / Hard to master ☐ Significant brain usage ☐ Difficult ☐ Dark Souls ---{ Grind }--- ☑ Nothing to grind ☐ Only if u care about leaderboards/ranks ☐ Isn't necessary to progress ☐ Average grind level ☐ Too much grind ☐ You'll need a second life for grinding ---{ Story }--- ☐ No Story ☐ Some lore ☐ Average ☐ Good ☑ Lovely ☐ It'll replace your life ---{ Game Time }--- ☐ Long enough for a cup of coffee ☐ Short ☐ Average ☑ Long ☐ To infinity and beyond ---{ Price }--- ☐ It's free! ☑ Worth the price ☐ If it's on sale ☐ If u have some spare money left ☐ Not recommended ☐ You could also just burn your money ---{ Bugs }--- ☑ Never heard of ☐ Minor bugs ☐ Can get annoying ☐ ARK: Survival Evolved ☐ The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs ---{ ? / 10 }--- ☐ 1 ☐ 2 ☐ 3 ☐ 4 ☐ 5 ☐ 6 ☐ 7 ☐ 8 ☐ 9 ☑ 10