Just because I’m too ignorant to enjoy Graphwar II (£4) and its free predecessor doesn’t mean I’m not going to cover them on Tally-Ho Corner. I suspect there are a few Cornerites out there with sufficient maths skills to understand…
V is for Very well received Fulcrum. It’s not often a new DCS flyable gets a reception as warm as the one the new MiG-29A has received. Perusing the forums, praise of the flight model and framerate impact is particularly…
Q is for Quick trade card. The collectible shown below was disgorged by a coin-operated railway station weighing machine some time in the 1950s. Small compared to most cigarette and tea cards, the 24 cards in the British Automatic Company’s…
L is for Lacking linesmen. Football Referee Simulator almost earned itself a Police Week article. Until Referee Simulator and Football Referee Simulator 26 arrive, Vladimir Pilashkun’s 2D effort has the ref sim genre pretty much to itself. Because you don’t…
G is for Games for a future Police Week? If there’s a Police Week in 2026, there’s a good chance the following three titles will – assuming they’re finished – figure in it. Bharat Police looks from a distance a…
A is for Alphabetised game news. Roman believes arranging game news alphabetically is “pointless” and “stupid” and THC should cease doing it forthwith. While I agree with him in principle, I feel a fifthwith or sixthwith cessation would be more…
If I keep stumbling upon games as novel and engaging as this one, ‘Police Week’ may never end. Approachable, jaundiced, and beautifully soundtracked, This Is the Police packs pithy RTS, management, and adventure game elements into the back of the…
On Tuesday night myself and a couple of friends Carcassonned for the first time. It was an interesting experience. Like many beginners we found farmers a tad confusing initially and soon realised that playing on a smallish table top wasn’t…
Should police games reflect the fact that the vast majority of violent crime is committed by males? I only ask because easy-to-recommend The Precinct is another cop title in which you’re almost as likely to be shot by a gun…
Cop games tend to lose interest in criminals the moment they’re in custody. The sort of tense interview suite tussles that loom large in this short but ingenious £2 grill-em-up seldom get ludologised and when they do it’s rarely with…
Luke-warm reviews? An unpersuasive demo? Competition from the likes of FS9, Call of Duty, IL-2 Sturmovik: Forgotten Battles, and Rise of Nations? I can’t recall why I didn’t play this futuristic FPS in its year of release: 2003. As an…
Beat Cop’s setting might be cosy – one short street in a fictional US city – but there’s nothing pipe and slippers about its storyline, dialogue, and choices. How did you start the day? Me, before breakfast I stuffed dope-filled…