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Post by Discoalucard on Jan 21, 2011 17:08:07 GMT -5
Good Old Games ( www.gog.com/en/gamecard/police_quest_1_2_3_4/pp/b888b29826bb53dc531437e723738383d8339b56 recently put this Sierra series up for download, so I'd figured I'd put up this article that I'd written several months ago. I wasn't entirely sure I should post it, since it's sorta incomplete. It was done for the adventure game book, so it only covers the "main" Police Quest series - the first four games, PQ: SWAT, and the clone Blue Force. It briefly covers the other SWAT games, but there are at least four of them (two for the PC, a few more for the PSP and mobile platforms) that I really didn't want to bother with. Still, by that point they'd dropped the Police Quest name anyway, and solely spun off to the "SWAT" series, so I don't feel too bad. www.hardcoregaming101.net/policequest/policequest.htmAlso, if it weren't already featured here, Police Quest: SWAT would absolutely be going into the kusoge column. It's an incredibly pretentious FMV game in fancy dressing, basically a compilation of those timed action sequences in adventure games that everybody hates. Except that's practically the whole game. The rest is comprised of stupid shooting gallery sequences for dozens of minutes on end. Terrible.
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Post by TheChosen on Jan 21, 2011 18:30:54 GMT -5
I found the second Police Quest Collection back in 2002, in a Super Market bargain bin. It was bit odd considering it was the only old boxed PC game in that pile. Despite the fact it was shrink-wrapped, it lacked the manual. Strangely, its not the only Sierra game that lacked something; once bought a boxed, shrink-wrapped Space Bucks from another super market, and it lacked the game cd.
So, it took me a while until I could play the second or the third game. I thought 1 and 4 were pretty okay, while SWAT was extremely confusing at that time (and still is). The only reason I progressed in any way in those games were because of the walkthroughs that were actually included in the cd.
And yeah, SWAT is rubbish.
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Post by annoyedgrunt on Jan 21, 2011 19:27:36 GMT -5
I am apparently terrible at calibrating video game firearms since I could never get it right in PQ2 and never passed the sniper's test in SWAT. I don't think I ever passed the SWAT campaign in SWAT 2 but the terrorist stuff was fun in a pre GTA3 kind of way. I never knew Open Season was considered a poor entry by the fans until much later. It was the first one I played and led to me and my father getting in to adventure games for a year or two.
There's a small typo in the PQ3 section
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Post by magus on Jan 22, 2011 17:11:48 GMT -5
aaaahhhh i was waiting for this i love reading about old sierra adventure's
go and do king's quest next so we can put an end to this whole series
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Post by Discoalucard on Jan 23, 2011 1:05:28 GMT -5
aaaahhhh i was waiting for this i love reading about old sierra adventure's go and do king's quest next so we can put an end to this whole series Like this one, I've already got a King's Quest article done for the book. It's missing coverage for the fan-made KQIX, though - was waiting for that to be finished before putting it up on the site.
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Post by stefanl on Jan 23, 2011 15:50:48 GMT -5
I played the Police Quest 4 when it was new, but was stuck at some game bug so i never completed it I never knew there was a PC98 version of PQ2... did it have midi soundtrack or using the FM soundchip of PC98? For those who are interested so have i recorded the Police Quest 2 title music from the Atari ST version, both the Roland MT-32 version and YM2149 version. get hem here: arcade.ym2149.com/pcbupdate/pq2/
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Post by starscream on Jan 24, 2011 12:37:04 GMT -5
PQ1, 4 and SWAT were also available for the Mac. Two of these are downloadable over at themacintoshgarden.org .
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Post by ReyVGM on Jan 24, 2011 12:54:23 GMT -5
I LOVEEEEE games with a 3/4 view for some reason. I love how that SCI Police Quest game looks. It reminds me of the SNES Shadowrun.
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Post by lanceboyle94 on Feb 2, 2011 21:46:32 GMT -5
I've never played any of the Police Quest games from the first to SWAT 2, but I did play SWAT 3 (I have the Elite Edition). And I also played Blue Force too, and I remember a few years ago, when I tried to remember it, that I got Blue Force and the Police Quest games mixed up.
Also, I remember back when SWAT 4 was released that me, my brother and my friends thought that it must be one of the best PC games released at that point. Even more for me and my brother, since we loved SWAT 3 back then (and still do). I've yet to play it
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Post by jorpho on Jul 20, 2013 19:49:38 GMT -5
Haylookit, now Mr. Walls is Kickstartering.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 3, 2017 21:59:26 GMT -5
Is anyone going to do a series for King's Quest? Kind of surprised that Police Quest is here, but not KQ.
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Post by alphex on Mar 3, 2017 22:23:53 GMT -5
Since the games are covered in the adventure game book, I guess the article itself (sans the recent reboot) is in place, just not "unlocked" yet?
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Post by Deleted on Mar 3, 2017 22:38:44 GMT -5
Ahhh, still have to pick that up. Guess that answers that!
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Post by nerdybat on Jan 27, 2018 16:01:43 GMT -5
Kind of a shame that SWAT3 and SWAT4 didn't get a proper review. While first two games in spin-off series were a weird novelty at best (and unpolished mess at worst), SWAT3/4 are two legitimately great games that manage to overshadow Police Quest in terms of general quality - SWAT4 in particular is often considered one of the best tactical shooters ever made, alongside with Rainbow Six 3 and Ghost Recon.
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Post by Discoalucard on Jan 27, 2018 23:51:43 GMT -5
Kind of a shame that SWAT3 and SWAT4 didn't get a proper review. While first two games in spin-off series were a weird novelty at best (and unpolished mess at worst), SWAT3/4 are two legitimately great games that manage to overshadow Police Quest in terms of general quality - SWAT4 in particular is often considered one of the best tactical shooters ever made, alongside with Rainbow Six 3 and Ghost Recon. I'd like to do these some day (and do a proper one for SWAT 2) but keep in mind this series of articles was done primarily for the adventure game book, so we didn't have time to focus on the other spin-offs. SWAT4 is indeed fantastic though - I hadn't played at the time but I gave it a shot a few years ago and I was blown away by it.
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