![]() For all policing actions, you’ll use a radial selection menu which was easy enough to grasp after a short while in-game. This toggle leads to hilarious running-in-place animations if you just slightly move the analog stick while in run mode. Controls are as basic as it gets for movement, and you toggle between run and walk. Things start out slow with you on foot and choosing to either give verbal warnings or tickets to people littering, jaywalking and the like. Casual lets you mess up and just “have fun” a lot more, with hardcore mode being a much tighter and lawful affair. ![]() ![]() First things first though, you’ll begin the game by choosing from a preset of Officers and choose either casual or hardcore mode. It’s really ugly, has a constant haze that obscures your vision at certain times of day, and is home to an incredible number of drunk drivers. If anything, the layout and look of the city remind me of any generic layout in an Original Xbox or PS2 game. It doesn’t look or feel at all like an American city, though. Police Simulator takes place in the fictitious American city of Brighton. This is one of the worst things I’ve ever experienced on my Series X or on any system for that matter. It’s an ugly, broken, infuriating slog of a game that takes the serious act of upholding the law and turns it into a series of meters to worry about. Police Simulator: Patrol Officers is a weird fever dream of what Europeans seem to think being a police officer in America is like.
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