After playing This is the Police 2 on PC, we thought we had put an end to the growing crime spree affecting the isolated town of Sharpwood, but evidently that was not the case. In fact, a few months later the game lands on consoles and we are enthusiastically ready to fight crime again with an iron fist, sometimes using some legally borderline methods. So, in the role of Jack Boyde, let's go back to imposing the law on this village lost in nowhere!
In the two months that have passed from the release of the PC to the console version, several updates they have made their debut fixed some minor bugs and added some interesting features, such as new agents obtainable, new currency changes and other small innovations. Not dwelling too much on plot, strengths and weaknesses, which you can find in our review of the PC version, let's go today to analyze the differences between the latter and the PlayStation 4 version tested by us.
What are the differences?
After having carefully reviewed the PC version, we can carefully examine the differences present in the PlayStation 4 version. In fact, the game remains as it is, but this time to replace your beloved mouse there is the DualShock 4, which brings with it advantages and disadvantages. So let's go and analyze them.
The presence of a speaker inside the controller certainly makes the whole experience more engaging game: in fact all the radio calls coming from the police station, instead of being reproduced by the speakers of your TV, will instead be emitted by your DualShock 4, thus making the gaming experience much more immersive than what has already been experienced on PC . On the other hand, however, the use of a controller instead of the mouse creates some discomfort to the player who approaches This is Police 2. In fact, let us remember that this work contains in itself a tactical part and a management part, and if in the first this does not particularly affect the gameplay, in the second it makes the much more woody experience due to impractical controls. The choice of the developers to force the player to press L2 before being able to select the emergency to be faced is in fact deleterious, especially if we think that some events remain available only a few seconds and not completing them almost always leads to malus at the end. day. It would have been better if we had been given the possibility to select the emergency to cover with the simple movement of the analog stick of the cursor, an option that is instead given to us at any time to select the policemen, and not the events.
Another sore point is instead highlighted during the choice of agents who will have to go on a mission. It will often happen that some of them do not want to work with a certain colleague and that you are therefore forced to replace him: if in the PC version there were no major problems, since with a simple click it was possible to deselect the agent too many, in the PlayStation 4 version the game requires you to eliminate the agents from the first to the right up to the problematic one. It will follow that the player, before deciding who will follow that case, will make the sign of the cross in the hope of not having to eliminate and reinsert countless agents before arriving at the best solution to the problem.
In conclusion
This is Police 2 is always a great game and it remains pretty damn nice to play, but no doubt these small control defects on the PlayStation 4 version penalize the usability of this work by the end user.
