Necropost as fuck , but after reading that article searching for a review of this game and winding up here , I was scratching my head on this article . It seems like this guy chief complaint is that he just wants it to be a simple moral lesson and believes any sense of ambiguity when talking about issues as complex as the game does is wrong . Although this is the explanation I would prefer to believe , it still wouldn ' t be enough to redeem the game . For the ultimate failure of This Is the Police is that it makes everyone culpable but the police . When you fire all the black cops on day four , it ' s not really your fault the racist gangs and evil mayor made you do it . When you order the assaults on protesters , you ' re just following orders . If this game is any indication , the worst thing a cop ever did was drink too much on the job all the true evil originates with the higherups and lowerdowns . This part really actually seems like the game is actually brilliant as a work of art though I have no idea and he ' s incapable of grasping the deeper meaning here even people who do bad things don ' t believe they are the bad guys , and systems really matter . All those games where you ' re the bad guy in an edgy way are corny as fuck , because there are no groups of people cackling in secret mastermind conference rooms , most people simply just do some combination of whatever they think their duty or their own self interest is and sometimes people do really bad things , and sometimes those people had no other choice unless they were possessed with heroic moral courage or extraordinary ability .