A real cop game?

[Valkyrie1981]

Granted the military gets everyone wanking under the table when it comes to FPS, and any game that deviates from this true all booty call is surely to be punished, but what about a FPS focused around Police. Granted one might think that these stories could become heavily scripted because of the nature of police work but what FPS doesn't have a director standing behind the player kicking him in the balls when he doesn't do what he wants him to do.

Even if it wasn't purely a FPS, where you could throw in those "Moral Choice" which I say with a snicker, but what the hell. You can play a clean cop, a dirty cop, or one of those pissed off cops that are neither clean or dirty. With the bad guys changing how they react to your presence based on how you treat them.

It could be set in a more Orwellian style society as well were killing some punk, or even discharging your weapon doesn't get you suspended for three days. There are many ways this could be played where I am not Space Marine 3000, or Special Forces dude 5000.... You start off as a rookie cop, work your way through a campaign moving in to other areas of your choice, all of which that get you different skills and weapons be it Detective, SWAT, or Patrol....

I don't know maybe I am getting tired of the cookie cutter FPSs out there.... There is no real difference between COD: 4 One and COD: 4 Two.... and I am sure COD: Black Ops will be just the same... In the end your killing a idiot for generally the same reason. With a Cop one you could be taking down a Crack house full of drug dealers, trying to find a Rapist before he strikes again, (And you don't start over when he does you just have to fucking find him!) Or you could be doing a Stop and Frisk and a gang banger goes for a gun... who knows....

Killing aliens, Muslims and Undead, as fun as we have all enjoyed it, it is getting old...

 

[thatstheguy]

Granted the military gets everyone wanking under the table when it comes to FPS, and any game that deviates from this true all booty call is surely to be punished, but what about a FPS focused around Police. Granted one might think that these stories could become heavily scripted because of the nature of police work but what FPS doesn't have a director standing behind the player kicking him in the balls when he doesn't do what he wants him to do.

Even if it wasn't purely a FPS, where you could throw in those "Moral Choice" which I say with a snicker, but what the hell. You can play a clean cop, a dirty cop, or one of those pissed off cops that are neither clean or dirty. With the bad guys changing how they react to your presence based on how you treat them.

It could be set in a more Orwellian style society as well were killing some punk, or even discharging your weapon doesn't get you suspended for three days. There are many ways this could be played where I am not Space Marine 3000, or Special Forces dude 5000.... You start off as a rookie cop, work your way through a campaign moving in to other areas of your choice, all of which that get you different skills and weapons be it Detective, SWAT, or Patrol....

I don't know maybe I am getting tired of the cookie cutter FPSs out there.... There is no real difference between COD: 4 One and COD: 4 Two.... and I am sure COD: Black Ops will be just the same... In the end your killing a idiot for generally the same reason. With a Cop one you could be taking down a Crack house full of drug dealers, trying to find a Rapist before he strikes again, (And you don't start over when he does you just have to fucking find him!) Or you could be doing a Stop and Frisk and a gang banger goes for a gun... who knows....

Killing aliens, Muslims and Undead, as fun as we have all enjoyed it, it is getting old...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SWAT_(series)

Done.

 

[Blue_vision]

It could be set in a more Orwellian style society as well were killing some punk, or even discharging your weapon doesn't get you suspended for three days. There are many ways this could be played where I am not Space Marine 3000, or Special Forces dude 5000.... You start off as a rookie cop, work your way through a campaign moving in to other areas of your choice, all of which that get you different skills and weapons be it Detective, SWAT, or Patrol....

I am instantly intrigued. But doesn't the True Crime series do that already? (To an extent.)

I'm definitely up for some more games like that. Taking an open-world route there could be really useful, actually. You could be a detective trying to bust some crime ring, with the ultimate goal to bring it down. You could make arrests, given proper grounds, and interrogate people with an Alpha Protocol-like dialogue tree. Make busts, get into epic gunfights when shit hits the fan. It would have to maintain an arm's length from realism, but it could be really awesome if done right and total shit if done wrong.

And playing as a rogue cop might be cool. Imagine playing a cop in the aforementioned Orwellian society who decides that oppressing the people isn't the best option, using your cop skills and stature to liberate the people? There's a cool premise there too.

 

[Programmed_For_Damage]

If you really want to go back in time there is the Police Quest series by Sierra (if memory serves me correctly). Finding a PC old enough to run them might be the difficult part.

 

[badgersprite]

Yeah, but part of the thing that might work against cop games is...do you really want to be playing as a narc? Or as the jerk who gave you a speeding ticket? Hmm. I don't really know if anyone would want to play as a beat cop the same way they'd want to play as a soldier on the front lines, even if they do glam it up the way war shooters do and cut straight to the action.

Some cops are cool, and some cops aren't. You'd have to be like a highly fictionalised Miami Vice cop, a detective working in the Homicide division, or be an FBI agent or SWAT guy in order to make it marketable.

...Or just do what True Crime and Condemned did and introduce an ancient mystical cult that summons smoke dragons and demons. (To this day, I say...WHAT THE FUCK?!)

 

[Estocavio]

Well, SWAT and True Crime NYC did this to a lesser extent, but im fairly sure theres never been a game about playing a regular police officer.

I support the idea

 

[Skorpyo]

A REAL cop game?

Get ready for a massive amount of paperwork-based mini-games, everybody.

 

[Scars Unseen]

Can I hassle minorities and give warnings in lieu of tickets based upon cleavage exposure?

 

[RhombusHatesYou]

A REAL cop game?

Get ready for a massive amount of paperwork-based mini-games, everybody.

Yeah, having to identify yourself as police before wailing on someone was hassle enough in SWAT. I don't think I'd enjoy a game that gave you 4hrs of paperwork for just unhostlering your sidearm.

 

[Mekado]

A REAL cop game?

Get ready for a massive amount of paperwork-based mini-games, everybody.

Yeah, having to identify yourself as police before wailing on someone was hassle enough in SWAT. I don't think I'd enjoy a game that gave you 4hrs of paperwork for just unhostlering your sidearm.

Hmm, i actually thought this was one of the things that made the game (SWAT4 anyways) great, or at least very different from run-and-gun FPS's.

Edit: as opposed to say True Crime NYC where the best solution to catch any criminal is to shoot them in the kneecaps.How huge would the backlash be if some undercover cop ran a street counter-traffic, sirens wailing, stop with screeching tires against the sidewalk, shot that purse mugger or angry hobo in the kneecaps then got out of his car to cuff him would be ?

It's my MO in True Crime anyways...