Interview Power of Law interview at TVG

Vault Dweller · Oct 27, 2004

Tags: MISTLand; Power of Law: COPS: 2170

<a href=http://www.totalvideogames.com>TotalVideoGames</a> has posted a 3-page long <a href=http://www.totalvideogames.com/pages/articles/index.php?article_id=6653>interview</a> with Masha Petrova from <a href=http://www.mistgames.ru/>MiST land</a> about <a href=http://www.polgame.com/eng>COPS 2170: Power of Law</a>
 
 
<blockquote>Please can you give us some info about the team creating the game and what may have inspired it?
 
 
Inspired by the success of Paradise Cracked and considering this experience, we made an effort to create a game which is a hybrid of strategy and RPG elements where players take on the role of a rookie cop patrolling the mean streets of a cyberpunk metropolis. We just couldnâ€™t disappoint those, who since lived in another reality owing to Paradise Cracked.
 
</blockquote>I think that people who call Paradise Cracked a success definitely live in "another reality".
 
 
<blockquote>If you had to pick one real innovation from your title that you are most proud of what will it be?
 
 
Mostly weâ€™re proud of our non-linear plot. A lot of events occur on each level apart from a player, and he\she can interfere in them or just pay no attention to it. But actually afterwards they affect the plot to some extent. Even tiny actions of a player like his behaviour in battles: whether he was desperately fighting or shrinks in the face of danger will reflect the game results. These all influence quests, bonuses, available levels and equipment.</blockquote>That sounds very cool. I believe there are some people who've already played the game. Any comments?

Sirus · Oct 27, 2004

Hmm.... I've never heard of this one before. Anybody know if it's any good?

Vault Dweller · Oct 27, 2004

Here is what we have on it http://www.rpgcodex.com/gamedetails.php?id=237

Basically it's a mission-based TB cyberpunk game that claims to have non-linearity, consequences, and multiple solutions. Sounds good, but here is what one of the guys here had to say about it:

http://www.rpgcodex.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=4899

dunduks said:

I finished it recently and thought i could share some info so you can decide if you want to buy it when the english version comes out.

The good:
Setting and atmosphere, this is were this game excels, they got that cyberpunk feel across and thats a good thing.
Voiceovers and sound - they've got some good actors who are doing their work nicely, music is also very nice (I hope they get good ones for english version as well, the rat was excelent in russian version).
Graphics - they have improved the engine quite and the levels are colorful and well done.
Combat - it's a mixed bag, the enemy AI is good, they throw some impressive moves, what poisons it is that while enemies have good AI your allies are supplied with AI that should be called Artifical Idiots, I haven't seen any other game where a SWAT team members are wiped out in 2 turns, becouse they run around frantically, then suddenly do a burst from heavy machinegun killing of half of their team, but overall if you ignore the friendly AI - the combat is good since enemies can put up a fight.

The bad:
Unfortunately the game has some serious flaws, the main one being it was rushed out too early - meaning it became playable on radeon cards only after second patch. And becouse of rushing out it lacks content and stuff that was promissed from interviews Sad Such things as speaking with enemies and forcing them to give up doesnt work, while you can speak with them there is no reaction aside from generic "go fuck yourself" answers, there is virtually no dialoges (as in choosing responses) all of them are prescripted (you make your choices by speaking to good or bad guy). The bright side of this is that Mist guys have promised to make 3 free downloadable addons from which one is already available. Another thing is the realtime - it is there but it's more of unlimited turnbased that switches on when the last enemy is killed so I would suggest always having a police scanner around.

So overall I would give Power of Law 7 points from 10
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There is no character creation per se, you start of with Katrin as she begins her work in police, as for development there are stats that you can improve (strenght, precision, dexterity, etc) from points you get at level up and once you get to the max level of these stats you can further improve them by using implants. You can get other NPC join your team, however not all of them at once (I mean that a "dirty" cop will not work in the same team with a mutant since they are in opposing factions), at some point, if you have made the wrong choices, they might even turn against you. About choices - there is basically the good and the bad way, and it effects the missions you get - if you go against syndicate for example, they will mark you as enemy and will try to get you. As for mission goals, there are few that can be handled differently, but basically it's kill'em all. To put it short - its more like futuristic dungeon crawler.
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Some missions will play the same way, but the number of allies/support will change, some missions play diagonally different (such as atacking a mutant base or defending it), but yeah its linear.
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Sirus · Oct 27, 2004

Hmm... alright. Thanks for the info.

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