So it looks like that Astragon weren't discouraged by the fact that Police Simulator: Patrol Duty turned out to be a trainwreck, and are set out to publish a quasi-reboot of their "Police Simulator" series (with a new developer taking the helm, of course). So far, the engine and the assets look pretty similar (with Unreal Engine 4 powering the game, and most of the cityscape apparently being built with the same city asset pack that Patrol Duty used), but being the hopeless optimist, I'd love to think this attempt might turn out to be better than PS:PD, and thus might be worthy to attention.

 

Specifically:

- The car and character models already look a lot better.

- The devs will launch the game in early access, and will keep it in-development for at least a year, promising frequent updates and community engagement,

- Unlike PS:PD, they claim the game will feature a dynamic traffic and pedestrian system that'll organically generate random events, along with a great variety of callouts.

- Like its predecessor, PO is also planned to feature a two-player co-op mode and night shifts as well.

 

I'm not holding my breath here, but the developers already look a lot more transparent and open in communication than BigMoon ever did with Patrol Duty. If they prove to be indeed receptive of community feedback, and add extensive modding support to the game, this can actually turn out to be a decent police game, methinks.

 

Any thoughts?

Edited February 15, 20215 yr by JohnBart

All I can say is I wish them the best and hope they can make something great and fun. I actually find it hilarious that GTAV is the best game for a police simulator LOL. But that being said, if they can't even achieve half of what GTAV LSPDFR has to offer with a proper mod list and plugins they will never out-do this game.

I hope someone can come up with something but at this rate it looks like GTA6 (when it eventually reaches PC) will be the only upgrade to LSPDFR.