Beat Cop
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Half enjoyable adventure, half clunky mess, Beat Cop is a talented rookie in need of a long talk with HR.
Like Police Quest meets Papers, Please on a grim day.
A few bugs aside, Beat Cop is a highly engrossing and addictive adventure, a cross between classic ’80s action and routine cop duty that makes for some extremely interesting gameplay as you get sucked in and even get attached to everyone in your little part of Brooklyn. Proper management and investigation skills are rewarded with satisfying results and advancements in various intriguing narratives, and the gameplay is the kind that’s enjoyably simple to learn and fun to work with.
Beat Cop is a relentless time management game where writing tickets and arresting perps is set against a background of sleaze and corruption.
A wild game that manages to retain all the glamour of the 80's while being still funny and deep. Maybe it may have some technical flaws, but still works.
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All in all, Beat Cop serves well as a Police sim, although that aspect of the game grows stale as time goes on.
Much like the setting that inspires it, Beat Cop is crass, dirty and morally reprehensible at times. Though it certainly isn't for everybody, there is a certain attraction that Beat Cop exudes which has you coming back, time and again, to its grimly framed world of corrupt cops, jobsworth toil and pressure-based strategy.
