Paying $20,000 periodically to keep the feds out of Boyd’s trail and the need to avoid getting bad results for three days in a row are the two main reasons for this.
Bad things stack up much faster and can easily snowball, resulting in game over. I’ve played TITP and I clearly felt a much harder and unforgiving experience in this new entry to the series. Once I could hire a bunch of Sharpwood’s best, I started looking for new clues and frames, completing them a bit late. Investigations are still there, but I personally let them stack up until I had a handful of cops to spare and assign to, as I couldn’t really afford losing a badge on the field for a good portion of the game’s beginning. Silent pick-locking, shadow-stepping and negotiation skills are just some of the perks available for these levels. The fact that we can restart it if we lose and try again represents a big sedative to a potentially painful negative outcome.Įlements like taser guns, pepper spray, police batons and stun grenades allow for a non-lethal approach, which is a good thing if we have a cop with an interrogation ability on our squad, allowing us to learn the position of other enemies on-site and avoid entering the wrong room. Traps, hidden criminals and other hazards can start dropping cop bodies quickly, making for each assault a truly tactical challenge. The tactical-ops scenarios have a noir feel that reeks of tension and uncertainty, while we order our cops to traverse buildings and snow-covered areas in order to rescue some hostages, arrest or kill all the crooks and more. Apart from these two core aspects, they’ve added turn-based tactical operations, the officer’s and police station’s inventory management, a sort of skill tree progression for each individual cop and even more pressure on us on a day-to-day basis. Weappy Studio and THQ Nordic doubled down on two simple things they nailed in TITP: storytelling and management simulation.
Now, after fleeing to a small, snow-covered town called Sharpwood, Boyd changes his identity to Warren Nash and ends up sitting at the sheriff’s office one more time, after getting arrested and convincing the overwhelmed Sheriff Lilly to accept his help instead of calling the feds. Jack Boyd has escaped his previous life as Freeburg’s Chief of Police after succumbing to corruption’s unavoidable weight, whether he intended to get dirty or not. You’ll manage police officers through whole crime-filled days, harvest their loyalty or antagonize them and see what the results are, cope with crime lords, gangs, murderers and the main protagonist’s shady past as you juggle as many plates as you can before collapsing. But, in very few words, This Is The Police 2 is a police management simulator, mixed with a noir dirty-cop story set in a Fargo-like snowy little town and brand new isometric turn-based strategy ops mode that adds some X-COM into the pot. One for players who actually played This Is The Police, and one for newcomers eager to jump on a fast moving train they know nothing about.
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