Precinct - Police Quest spiritual successor by Jim Walls

[Infinitron]

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/precinctgame/precinct

Precinct is a new police adventure video game from Jim Walls, creator of the classic Sierra series “Police Quest”.

Precinct takes players on a police adventure as officer Maxwell Jones in the corrupt town of Fraser Canyon, CA. Starting out as a rookie and then moving up the ranks, players face adrenaline charged scenarios and conduct real police procedures while solving crimes and arresting perpetrators.

Written by Jim Walls and some of today's brightest Hollywood talent, Precinct features a gripping crime story based on true accounts of real police cases. As players clean up the crime ridden streets, the plot thickens with corrupt cops, greedy public officials, and a deadly struggle for control of Fraser Canyon's criminal underground.

Playing in the first person perspective, Precinct's real-time 3D environments and gameplay deliver significant realism to the classic police adventure style Jim is famous for creating. Along with staple elements such as adventure and puzzles, players also encounter intense fast action gameplay sequences that include shootouts, high speed car chases, investigations, foot pursuits, hand-to-hand combat, and more.

Jim is leading an effort to successfully combine original Sierra-style adventure with modern video game technology. The Precinct team is poised to redefine the cop-game genre by making a game that both classic and modern gamers can enjoy.

Precinct is planned to be an episodic series released as digital download for PC and Mac with distribution across platforms such as Steam and our own website. If our stretch goals are met, we will be able to release Precinct on additional platforms (more about stretch goals below).

Minimum pledge level is kinda high. Also it's funny how the pitch has way more images than text.

 

[trustno1code]

And no boxed version?

Those "intense fast action gameplay sequences" might alienate some of the purists. Good thing they've got at least a bit of in-game footage already, even if it's just a short car ride.

 

[Jarpie]

They need a lot of publicity to get 500k which I can't see happening.

 

[Branm]

They need a lot of publicity to get 500k which I can't see happening.

The $30 for a digital version is gonna really hurt them.... unless that gets lowered cant see this getting funded.

 

[jfrisby]

They've corrected themselves on their use of the word "episodic" pretty quickly:

Yes, Kotaku did list it as episodic. When they looked at the Kickstarter page that text was still in there, which is why Luke included it. But again, this is not an episodic game It's a 5-game series, ala Police Quest 1, 2, 3.

I'll be surprised if they make it, without relaunching it and aiming lower. I hope they do a bit better than the 1st person/QTE/tablet-level gameplay - Jim gets some points for co-designing Blade Runner, though.

 

[Kem0sabe]

I like the look and concept, sadly i'm not seeing them achieving their goal, would love them to nab a publishing deal for it tho if they can't manage a successful KS, maybe a partnership with telltale, that would fit nicely.

 

[Crooked Bee]

Looks really cool but $30 for the minimum pledge is like shooting yourself in the foot.

 

[Humanity has risen!]

Will the first person perspective be conductive to puzzle and adventure gameplay? It looks like it will be like Condemned but without the supernatural, with theme park investigations.

 

[tuluse]

This is a really terrible pitch video.

 

[Kem0sabe]

Will the first person perspective be conductive to puzzle and adventure gameplay? It looks like it will be like Condemned but without the supernatural, with theme park investigations.

Recently, tho not with a similar tone but first person adventuring nonetheless, Miasmata was ok.

 

[Humanity has risen!]

Miasmata sucked really bad, it was slow, too aimless, there was too little to do, and other such problems.

 

[tuluse]

Myst was cool

 

[Kem0sabe]

Miasmata sucked really bad, it was slow, too aimless, there was too little to do, and other such problems.

Yeah, but the first person mechanics worked fine, it's problems were down to content.

I think the first person adventure genre is regrettably underused, as tuluse points out, Myst is probably the most famous adventure game to date and it was first person. It offers immersion and i love the free look exploration aspect.


If you mix in combat with first person investigation, i had some of the most fun on a console with condemned, great game.

 

[Humanity has risen!]

The pledge video is actually good, the one thing I didn't like was the 24-like intense background music during gameplay, and the fact that the gameplay looked scripted as hell.

 

[Ninja Destroyer]

This is a really terrible pitch video.

Jim Walls has a voice very similar to Hank from King of the Hill. The music at the end was like on some Harley Davidson game. Iti is more "being a part of Sierra family" than Police Quest itself.

It could be interesting, combining adventure aspects of the old games and taking first person view from the later SWAT series. But, as everyone is saying here, 30$ is too much for a digital copy.

 

[Jaesun]

I'd definitely back this,but not for $30 just to get a copy of the game....

 

[Infinitron]

I actually thought that the $30 figure might make sense - since Sierra adventure games have proven to have a smaller community of people willing to Kickstart them, you need to demand more money from each person. The only question is, do they make up for their smaller numbers with greater dedication?

 

[tuluse]

The pledge video is actually good, the one thing I didn't like was the 24-like intense background music during gameplay, and the fact that the gameplay looked scripted as hell.

The first two minutes is monotone droning on about where some guys grew up and did for a living.

 

[DalekFlay]

Bad pitch all around. Not just poorly presented but also betrays the nostalgia interest with a lot different presentation.

Doomed to fail, sadly.

 

[Diablo169]

I want to play this game, but it doesn't need kickstarter. I'm fairly sure they could get a publisher for this.

 

[Stabwound]

A PQ successor sounds good, but the concept art and pitch sounds like it's half-assed popamole/QTE looking shit. Another Sierra grandpa pops his head out of the woodwork trying to get his piece of the pie.

 

[suejak]

Yeah... I don't know why he thought Police Quest fans would want an intense, realistic first-person game.

 

[evdk]

Dunno, sounds like a great idea.

 

[Sceptic]

Those "intense fast action gameplay sequences" might alienate some of the purists.

On the contrary, as a purist I expect shitty action gameplay sequences in my PQ.

Dunno, sounds like a great idea.

To be fair to Walls he had nothing to do with that abomination. Though of Precinct is more Blue Force than PQ1-3 it won't be worth it anyway.

 

[Name]

minigames like shooting, driving and close quarter combat is never the strong point of jim walls' police quest series.
i fear adding all these at once is over ambitious.
and they have optimistically listed stretch goal at launch?
and planning a five-part series just like the coles?
at least the coles are kind of worried of failing the initial funding goal.