Reviews

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  Digibluez

  Jul 11, 2022

  Hard to figure out the car controls or what the hell to do
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  Abs

  Aug 30, 2016

  What a blast from the past! I bought it immediately, and have been going on patrols since. The only negative comment I have is that The Gazette (part of game documentation) is missing, or I didn't know where to find it. No worries, though...it's available online. 10/10 would shower with naked cop again.
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  JimmyTheSkip

  Sep 21, 2016

  This is the game that really got me into Computer Gaming. Sonny Bonds, you're a legend. Played 1, 2, 3, 4 and even tried Police Quest SWAT. Many fun times!
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  Jr786Volnutt

  Jan 2, 2017

  Gamer's Discression is Advised. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wEnibPvgfZo A Collection of 4 Police Quest titles released from 1987-1993. It's Another great Inventory Adventure series that Sierra On-Line created back when MS-DOS & Windows 3.1/95/98 was still by popular demand. The first three games were produced by former police officer Jim Walls and follow the adventures of Sonny Bonds, a character whose name and appearance was loosely based off his own son, Sonny Walls while the remainder Police Quest games were produced by former L.A. Chief Daryl Gates, in a different style in both atmosphere, and later even in genre. All 4 Police Quest games are recorded on Location by the Men & Women of the Laytton Police Department. All suspects are Innocent until proven Guilty in a Court of Law. In Police Quest 1 EGA/VGA - In Pursuit of the Death Angel: Assigned to traffic duty, Sonny Bonds investigates what appears to be a simple car crash but turns out to be a homicide. Relieved by his supervisor, Sergeant Dooley, Sonny goes on a short coffee break with a fellow officer and returns to duty. He gives a traffic violation citation to a driver, single-handedly faces a tough gang of drunken bikers, and makes a DUI arrest. As the game progresses, he advances from patrol officer to temporary narcotics detective to undercover agent in hope of tracking down a murderous drug dealer named Jessie Bains, "The Death Angel". In order to find Jessie Bains, Sonny enlists the help of his former high school sweetheart, "Sweet Cheeks" Marie, who is now working as a prostitute. In Police Quest 2 - The Vengence: After arresting Jessie Bains, Bonds is promoted to the homicide division. He begins dating Marie Wilkans, who helped him in his undercover work in exchange for the dismissal of prostitution charges against her as "Sweet Cheeks" Marie. A dark shadow is cast over Sonny's happy life, however, when Bains escapes from prison and seeks revenge. With the help of his partner Keith, Bonds must protect his girlfriend's life as well as his own while pursuing "The Death Angel" once again. Despite Sonny's efforts, Bains kills several people who were involved in his arrest and abducts Marie. Sonny pursues Bains to Steelton, the current home of Donald Colby, a reformed drug pusher from the original Police Quest. In Police Quest 3 - The Kindred: Sonny and Marie are married following Bains' death. Promoted once more, Sonny now has to deal with rampant crime as a drug cartel begins operating in Lytton and evidence of a satanic cult starts to appear. When Marie is stabbed in a mall parking lot, Sonny's police work becomes personal. Sonny must deal with a partner with questionable ethics as well as find patterns in crime to find his next lead. The Bains family also plays a role in this game. In Police Quest 4 - Open Season: You take the role as John Carey in Los Angeles, California. Carey, an LAPD homicide detective whose best friend was killed in the line of duty, must track down a serial murderer in L.A. where numerous mature themes are depicted in the game, including hate crimes, Neo-Nazism, and youth involved in crime. Graphic imagery within the game also includes the body of a child murdered by gang violence and a severed head in a refrigerator.
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  BW

  Jan 19, 2017

  The Police Quest series is an extremely underrated part of the classic Sierra canon of adventure games and many modern games such as "LA Noir" owe a lot to these titles. The games center on the character of Sonny Bonds, a police officer in the fictional city of Lytton. Created by former police officer Jim Walls, these titles require the player to strictly follow police protocol in order to complete the game. The first game was built on the text input-based AGI game engine developed for King's Quest and told the story of Sonny's rise in from beat cop to narcotics detective as he takes down the infamous "Death Angel". The game follows a linear plot but is built around a top-down open world map which allows you to drive between game locations. However, the version included in this collection is the point and click remake built on top of the SCI1 engine. Police Quest II was built on the SCI engine which was also text input based but did feature some point and click functionality. This entry replaced the top-down driving simulation with an over-the-shoulder view which to some degree made the world feel more restrictive. Still, the game benefits from a variety of realistic locations and the same attention to real-world detail as its predecessor. Police Quest III was built on the SCI1 engine which eliminated the need for text entry. This title returned to the top-down driving view but the point-and-click interface proved frustratingly non-intuitive for navigating around Lytton. Still, Police Quest III features a remarkably emotionally-driven storyline centering on Bonds' relationship with his wife Marie (a character from the original two games). Open Season is the first game not to be developed by Jim Walls, with former LAPD Chief Daryl F. Gates taking the helm of the project. Although graphically impressive for its time (it was build on the SC2 game engine which relied on photographic scans for its visuals) the game lost the realistic procedural element of its predecessors, instead relying on graphic violence and sensationalism to move the story forward. The game also ditches the character of Sonny Bonds in favor a new protagonist which squanders the emotional resonance built up over the first three entries. I therefore consider this to be a sequel in name only. The forth is a depature from the rest but still a fun addition to the series. The graphics a pixilated and the controls are old but the plot makes up for it.
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  Poppa Pimpin

  Jan 20, 2017

  Nostalgia overload!!! I remember sitting in my friends basement playing this on his little machintosh. Countless hours spent moving through the story just to get beat up by the bikers because we left the nightstick in the car, who knew it wasn't on your person? PQ1 by far is the best of the 3 even though they are all good. 3 you say, but theres 4 included in here...4 is dead to me, I hated any of those games in the late 80' 90's that tried to look like real life graphics in exchange for GARBAGE gameplay and story! 10/10 would knock over the bikers bikes again despite the consequences
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  CT Tech Gaming

  Nov 15, 2017

  This is when adventure games were great. I love the old Sierra games and had them all on the Atari ST back in the 80s when they came out and then continued the series on PC. I used to have this collection years ago that I picked up in USA must of been 2001 when I saw it in a wall mark but in all the moves I have missplaced it so when it came on stream it was a no brainer. The games work well on my windows 10 machine and when you start the launcher it automatically opens up Dosbox and loads the game, which is to be expected on a game of this age that it would need something to help it run on modern computers. you don't need to worry though it sorts it all out when you install it and run it on steam. Fantastic series in fact I would go as far as personally one of the best adventure series I have played. but then all quest games are awesome along with the Larry games. If you want to relieve some retro gaming or old adventures well worth the buy but take into account the graphics are extremely dated but the story more then makes up for that and keeps you immersed, something many games today miss/lack. Highly recommend
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  BloodGoddess

  Feb 7, 2018

  another series i have followed since the beginning! absolutely loooooooooooove it!! wish they still made games like these...
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  Giggi

  Jul 26, 2018

  Oldies but fun
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  Sammich

  Aug 6, 2018

  Died by stripping naked. 11/10 would commit indecent exposure again.
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  craz1000

  May 28, 2019

  Classic. Loved it
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  Tall Rooster

  Jun 26, 2019

  I lost the game because I was late for a meeting. 10/10.
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  Arnold666

  Jul 2, 2019

  What a nice collection of old classics. Had played all the others except Police Quest - Open Season. Seems quite addictive, even though I think Police Quest 3 is the best one.
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  Smokie

  Jan 12, 2020

  Great for nostalgia purposes...even includes all the glitches and bugs! Fun times, fun times. If you never played these games growing up, you probably won't enjoy them as they are no way close to today's gaming preferences. I grew up with these games so I can enjoy them for the nostalgia value. Reminds me of the kings quest series also.
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  BenjB83

  Mar 9, 2020

  I remember the original PQ from the early 90s. I was on vacation with my mom in the Netherlands and saw it. Despite a lot of crying and arguing she would refuse to buy it. However, I got the game from my pocket money some time later. It was one of the major things, that helped me to learn English and it was also my first text based game. It is difficult but sadly not too long. I never knew much about PQ2 and PQ3 until some years later, when I found those online as abandonware and got them downloaded. I did play PQ4 and PQ SWAT (the original one). While I did not like PQ2 too much, I loved PQ3 and PQ4. Those games made me a big fan of the series and later on I got all the SWAT games. If you like police games with some realism and an interesting story, this is definitely your choice. Even after all the years, one of the best police games around and I personally like it more than for example This is the Police. I was happy to see those three classics in a collection! They even work fine on Linux thanks to DosBox.
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  James Bradford Huston

  Nov 3, 2020

  mixed feelings played so many Sierra classics, most should PASS
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  fehr.lisa.d

  Apr 26, 2021

  brought out best memories which i played after my dad showed me how. I played years ago but i play again. Really did enjoyed it.
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  AV

  May 22, 2021

  [i]Note: [url=https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2494144855]This guide[/url] explains how to quickly/easily edit each game's conf file to correct the aspect ratio so it isn't stretched. This will also allow for use of the Steam Overlay and the taking of screenshots.[/i] While not without some merit at times, the Police Quest series is something of an insanely bizarre historical anomaly of, at best, mixed quality and overall atrocious writing. The stories are either outright weak or start strong then completely fall apart, the adventure gameplay is mostly terrible, the direction is insane, the flow is wildly inconsistent and just wrong, the pacing is sadistic, the presentation quality varies wildly, and the whole series feels like the masturbatory fever dream power fantasy of a former police officer (which each and every game here pretty much [i]is[/i]). Jim walls, the former highway patrolman responsible for the first three games in the series, had a falling out with Sierra and went on to create Blue Force, one of the worst games ever made. Darryl Gates, the disgraced former Chief of LAPD forced out after the Rodney King Riots and co-founder of the failed D.A.R.E program, took over for the fourth game in the series... That all ought to give you a good idea of the kind of fustercluck you're getting into with these games. They are generally a mess of cliches, stereotypes, and derivative tropes. Most of the series is mired by a lack of quality control. Most of the games have some potential in them but they're ultimately brought down by a swarm of issues and godawful writing. That they provide a uniquely disturbing window into how the writer's view their profession and what they think is cool/fun is arguably the only true redeeming quality of the collection at large. [b]Police Quest: In Pursuit of the Death Angel (EGA/VGA)[/b] A pedantic emphasis on nitty-gritty police procedure gives this all the tedium, some of the realism, and barely any of the fun one would expect from playing a cop. It is proof that more realism does not make a better game but it's been horrifyingly and unironically used to train some actual, real life USA police officers... so, hey... at least there's that @_@ This game is pretty on-the-rails and where it isn't, the "puzzle" is in regards to following by-the-book police procedure. It plays like a stiff training simulation that put in some extra effort to try to be a little entertaining... while never failing to emphasize procedure over story. It's kinda like if Brooklyn 99 forced you to sit there and watch the characters do all their paperwork. This is also arguably the best, or at least the most consistent, game in the collection. [b]Police Quest II: The Vengeance[/b] This improves upon the original in a number of ways and 3/4 of it is objectively pretty solid... but it completely falls off the rails in the last acts with truly "what the ACTUAL fuck" non-sensical design choices and the most coke-fueled fever dream cop power fantasy tripe you could ever imagine. For a series trying to be "realistic," it sure doubles down on completely unbelievable writing. It's especially infuriating because the game kicks off with better presentation, direction, writing, character development, flow, storytelling, all the vibes of a classic 80s/90s cop flick, and a more enjoyable/engaging approach to procedure then it just up and shits its pants to death out of nowhere. An especially negative aspect of the gameplay is that it has [i]extreme[/i] dead-man-walking syndrome in that [spoiler]if you don't re-sight your sidearm twice in a ridiculously short period early on, you will be unable to survive at the end with zero indication whatsoever that you need to do this.[/spoiler] [b]Police Quest III: The Kindred[/b] An adventure game so bad it tempts me to [i]commit[/i] crime. This is where Jim Walls had a falling out with Sierra and it shows. The game feels like a buggy, unfinished mess in every regard and it is a significant downgrade from its predecessor despite its enhanced graphics and engine. The driving system is unforgivably horrible and overused to fucking [i]death[/i], eg. in an apparent attempt to demonstrate what 1st degree murder looks like, the devs bludgeon the very concept of "pacing" to a fine paste by forcing us to drive across town SEVEN FUCKING TIMES before the climax to get/upgrade warrants and the game is so messed that if you do something as innocuous as speak to the judge first, it bugs out later and prevents you from progressing entirely. Graphics sometimes just glitch out and partially disappear. The world is empty and lifeless. Part of the plot requires to creep on your partner (and except for that, the game reverts to the most pedantic procedure enforcement of the series). The bugs create dead man walking situations (eg. if you submit some evidence properly and don't have it in your inventory to physically show the judge, the game bugs out). There is a "fuck around and do literally nothing for ~15min real time" section near the start. The hallways have weird, arbitrary auto-pathing. The visuals, despite being clean, are of mostly bland, milquetoast settings. The writing is utterly atrocious (eg. [spoiler]your wife wakes up from a coma and you don't exchange a word and just leave[/spoiler]) the entire time. I could go on. I fucking [i]hate[/i] this game. This may even be a contender for my all-time most hated game. It was so bad that these are some of the notes I took for review while playing it: - "Oh my god... oh my god... this is so bad... this is so so bad." - "The cop who wrote this crap must have lost an arm jerking himself off." - "This is so stupid... kill me... please make it stop." - "Just depressingly awful." - "This is a barely-polished turd." [b]Police Quest IV: Open Season[/b] This has a phenomenal opening sequence then it steadily falls off the rails, ultimately becoming a game with a few good moments strung together by arbitrary tedium, length-padding, and horrible writing. It ends with the similar coke-fueled WTF-ery as PQ2 does. The dialog is generally pretty good but the voice acting & execution is inconsistent and there is still some [i]very[/i] stupid and unnecessary dialog at times. The branching dialog sections are the best part of the game and make you feel like an actual detective... unfortunately it's not enough to pick up the slack. The visuals, all digitized, range from pretty good at times to being so ugly you sometimes won't be able to tell what's what on the screen even if you have a walkthrough. You're likely only going to get any enjoyment from these games if you have a hard-on for doing police paperwork on par with that of Amy Santiago or you're subjecting yourself to them to experience a bonkers piece of gaming history. If you do intend to buy them, I would strongly advise against doing so at anything less than 90% off. They do not hold a candle to Sierra's classics in the slightest and the series completely changed direction after these for good reason.
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  Cramso

  Jul 13, 2021

  get these classics through other means. broken DRM makes these games hard to play on a modern system.
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  Profile

  Aug 1, 2021

  Just look at this "pixel art" and compare it to today's retro imposters.