Police Stories

I expected it to be more tactical, but whole gameplay reminded me Hotline Miami. It's forcing player to play more aggresively, as usually one mistake means your death and thus replaying whole level. With each restart enemies are located in different rooms and there are 18 different levels, but I don't think they're distinctive enough. Pros: - satisfying gameplay, - equipment opens new strategies, - quite high level of difficulty, - decent replayability for ones who want to get high scores. Cons: - narrow range of enemies, - only one gun (except of pistol when using shield on last levels), - occasional minor bugs, - low tactical possibilities (usually one entrance to building), - some equipment is rather useless, - your partner has a hasty trigger, - story is forgettable. It's not the best polished game out there, but it provides a fun gameplay and it's worth its price. Just don't expect it to be top-down SWAT 4.

The game is a lot of fun. But unfortunately it seems like the are no longer updating the game here on Gog. We are one full major version behind since at least 3 months already with no update in sight (compared to the Steam version) I assume this is also the reason why Multiplayer with a friend that has the game on Steam is not working at the moment. I really hope the update is coming soon!

The game is several updates behind compared to the Steam version and is missing newly added features.

3.5 Stars I really wanted to enjoy this game more then I did. Largely because it starts off so strongly. It is like a high stakes version of Hotline Miami, replacing artsy flare and chaos with grit and tactics. Sadly everything about this game slowly comes a part towards the end. At first you will be struck with the difficulty, then once you get a hang of things it becomes almost easy, and thats when they go about things all wrong in racheting up the challenge. All of the flaws of the game begin bursting from the seams. The more tactical equipped enemies seem to suffer from all sorts of spuratic nonsensical behavior, which tied with your partners clunky AI creates damning situations, especially given the absolutely razor thin margin for scoring enough points to unlock the next level later in the game. The situations in which it is OK to fire on an enemy also begins to suffer as more variables in their behavior come tumbling in, and things often devolve into a chaos that doesn't resemble any sort of tactics or realism. Now you could say this represents the chaos of such tense situations, but it really doesn't come off as that at all, it just seems like half finished AI. On top of this the early game equipment that you get, which seems well thought out and interesting, is followed by later items that seem almost unfinshed or useless. Just throw a smoke grenade and stare in wonder at the ridiculously poorly rendered animation that erupts from it, which seems to be taking place in a completely different set of graphics, almost in a completely different game. Or get a new sort of sensor grenade, that does exactly what an item you already has does. That said, this is all from my experience playing single player, in the recommended difficulty by the developers. I could definitely see having a lot of fun playing multiplayer with a buddy, or if your looking for a top down action fix, just know that the quality comes at a downward slope.