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Truck And Police was available as a giveaway on November 11, 2022!
Truck And Police is a top down arcade racing game game with a beautiful low poly graphic by hammergames.
Game Features
Fast gameplay - short and fun
Easy to pickup and play - retro style top down racing gameplay
Controls
WASD: Movement
Space: Nitro
Esc : Menu
Windows
144 MB
$5.00
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Whiterabbit-uk,
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I have played 3 levels of this game, and uninstalled it (not possible in the Windows "Programs and Features", only with the uninstaller in the program directory).
To make things short: I feel a little bit abused as a beta tester, this is not a publishing ready game, in my eyes.
At the current state this game for me it looks unready in almost every aspect.
(-graphics - sound - game mechanics --level design -menues (comeon.....))
Crash-scenes: negative
Police-arrest-scene: negative
Damage model: negative
storyline: unnecessary and boring, better spend your time in programming the game mechanics and level design
The graphics:
- irritating areas of mud and stones on the street with no influence on the gameplay
- the black tire-trails also do not hamonize with the game, other cars in the game don´t show such trails
The track design:
- 90-degree angles everywhere (this really hurts)
- the view on the track is too small
- environment: boring. How about some trees, cactus, barrels, barriers, rocks, oilpuddles... whatever....
The sound:
-The whistled main title does not fit to the retro-graphics.
-the 80´s influenced background music in the game is ok, but very repetative after a while, no way to turn it off?
-Sound effects of the police car is cool, but sounds for sliding and drifting?
and so on and on and on....
Verdict: not the worst racing game ever, but among the worst.
Tip: try codemasters "Micro Machines" or "Need for Speed 1" (a really unfair comparision? we write the year 2022....)
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Eightiskid,
Thanks for your detailed feedback; appreciated. I deleted it once I'd reviewed it.
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Quoting from the screenshots:
"… it is the whites who do whatever they want."
"Because they are whites, they should be treated lightly. They were lucky they were not black, or I would have shot them."
Wow. Was this intended as irony? Because to me, even as "jokes," those comments come over as both racist AND pro-"white supremacist."
So because of that, no thanks to this GGOTD. This leaves a nasty taste in my mouth.
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Cad Delworth, I do agree with the content of this game as it is a bit racist. I mainly ignored the story line and I just played the game itself to see how it played. I think games that have a story line as such may get slapped by the ESRB with a M for Mature Rating or Adults only at the very least. They can get away with these things on Steam as the platform accepts games not rated by them.
They do have a Twitter page which is here: https://mobile.twitter.com/hammergamesstu1
But I don't see any website for them. Perhaps feedback to the developer for the sensitive subject matter may help? Ashoot only seems to be the distributor of the game.
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Cad Delworth, hardest on the police officer, imho. It's definitely sarcastic or satiric, though not deep enough to truly be sarcastic. If you're not familiar, this is based on real incidents. A ongoing series of truck convoy protests last January/February in various parts of Canada over Covid vaccine requirements. For some, not taking a stand here, the protests were tainted by the often unsolicited involvement (including American truck drivers) from right-wing American groups whose platforms contained more than just discontent about vaccines. These may have contributed to the protests going on significantly longer and becoming uglier than they might have normally, causing Prime Minister Trudeau to declare an emergency. Or maybe not. Though for me, I don't look at it as one of America's proudest moments. But, that's the background. Of course, not all games are about fairies and unicorns and some developers decide to go the snarky, cynical, caustic route. They at least purport to deal realistically with the world we sometimes find ourselves in, and I'm not going to take a side on that, though some may feel the jokes here are cheap. Not going to take a stand on that either. Though I certainly respect it if you do.
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Sorry, not to get too heavily into this, but I think I was slightly unfair above. Don't want to insinuate that some Canadian protesters weren't sincere about their Covid feelings, that, instead they were completely manipulated by the Americans. There were certainly Canadians who fueled this movement, including 1 separatist organization (separtists - believe it or not!) from 3 of the Canadian prairie states. Perhaps they invited the Americans in, but most reporting indicates that the American groups that got involved were more interested in using the Canada protests as a proxy for publicity about their own discontent in America, rather than any sense of solidarity. Many Canadian truckers were surprised to see American truckers, for example. Also, a principal funding campaign raised over 4 million from the USA, almost half of the total money it raised. I'll stop now.
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Cad Delworth, it reminds me of the truckers demonstration /blockade of Ottawa recently :-(
I won't be downloading this.
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Today's game is a very interesting concept. I'm glad to see a developer experiment with retro style polygons as it would be interesting to see more games use this development technique.
That being said I found my car a little difficult to steer using the tried and true usual first person shooter controls :)
Storyline a bit odd.
It seems the developer may have been inspired from car chase theme games such as Spy Hunter from Midway.
I love the direction of the development the developer of this game took the approach on but it needs a little work on the physics and better steering for the truck in game.
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