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 sensible.
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 same pungent paddy wagon.
I’ve written hundreds of reviews, previews, and retrospectives during my twenty-odd years as a games inspector. As many of these appeared in the British version of PC Gamer magazine and nowhere else, now and again something from my archive may appear as one of THC’s daily posts. Why did a WW2-era grand strategy title that currently enjoys a ‘Very Positive’ review rating on Steam score a measly 30% in PC Gamer on release in 2010? Read on.
The Brits attempt to cross the Bogen in Turn 6. Well, five of them do. Not long after Sergeant Venison’s half squad commences a daring dash across the rail bridge, they start taking fire from their ten o’clock. A party of Volksgrenadiers ambling southward on the road beneath the castle, has spotted the bid and seems determined to scupper it.
Using the following clues (the map above is purely decorative) in combination with Street View, work out my location.
Where are the whistles and wooden truncheons? Where are the rattles and street corner TARDISes? Steam’s dizzying selection of police games implies professional law enforcement began circa 1980. If you want to fight crime as, say, a Bow Street Runner or a bobby in wartime London, you’re out of luck. During misnamed ‘Police Week’ the closest I’ve come to vintage policing is being shot at with a Lewis gun in Early Access SWAT Commander.
This week’s handmade co-op puzzle won’t defox itself. If you’re a whizz at quizzes, lateral thinking, and search engine sleuthing, why not lend a hand.
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 a brilliant idea. Unlike most Carcassonne greenhorns, we’d barely finished our first game before we were brainstorming WW2 mods.