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…
Volkssturm militiamen biding their time in camouflaged foxholes close to the rail bridge espy an irresistible target early in Turn 7. Unfortunately for Sergeant Venison, the target in question is him and his bank-traversing half-team.
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
I hope one of the bigger/wealthier game sites persuades John Walker to review MicroProse’s newest release. John and Myst have, as they say, history, and if Neyyah somehow managed to impress him, it has the ability to impress just about…
Police Week really should have been called Fuzz Fortnight. Law enforcement games are legion and last week I barely scratched the surface of what’s available. My latest acquisition puts the copper in chopper. It also shoots itself in both flat…
Pb + potato mashers + persistence = palpable progress for the POWs this turn. Dale’s Dozen ends the sixty undisputed kings of Nottingheim Castle. The fact that the German MG team weathered several grenade blasts before expiring makes Dale’s lack…