Police Simulator: Patrol Officers Review (skylabz0rz)
I have just over 11 hours into this game.
The good: It's dynamic and the graphics are decent. The UI isn't confusing though could use some refining. It's easy to pickup and learn without the tutorials (I skipped them so I can't say much).
The bad: The AI driving is horrible. They stop in unrealistic ways, which has caused me numerous accidents that were not my fault, but pegged on me. Traffic in left lanes pulls to the left, usually head on into oncoming traffic. Usually they clip into each other but I have noticed it can cause a wreck.
The frequency of road crash callouts is pretty high. Also, driving down the highway is like driving in a war-zone. Broken down cars everywhere, accidents everywhere, it's crazy. I skip them because the amount of work for accidents is high, and the amount of accidents to witness is unreal.
What could be fixed:
Implement a slider that changes the frequency of callouts in a more a sandbox mode. Otherwise reduce vehicle traffic accidents by 200%.
Add sallyports. You know, when you arrest someone and bring them into the station, it should be in a secure area vs just walking in the front door. Granted, that'd take a lot of redesign of the levels, but it breaks my immersion.
When you give out a major accident but you don't yet have enough stars to get a fire extinguisher, make it so we can at least call the fire department vs. leaving burning vehicles behind. I find it funny that I can interview, document and hand out tickets / reports all whilst the cars are burning.
Add backup AI officers. Let me call them for help other than to bring someone to jail for me. Especially for helping at accident scenes.
Let officers use fire extinguishers without having a high star level. Seriously.
All in all, it's not a bad game. They are doing DLC releases before fixing some pretty basic quality of life issues and some basic issues like you have to first watch a person steal a car, wait for them to drive off before you can stop them or you are docked CP points.
Also, please allow us call the fire department or give us fire extinguishers right away. I don't know how often I can say that.
The games fun, can be repetitive, but could use some basic fixes. Might want to wait for a sale until the QOL issues are fixed.