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Giveaway of the Day Forums » Topic: Week 56 - Free games for the weekdays - Police Quest 3 & 4 plus Blue Force http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/6297 Giveaway of the Day Forums » Topic: Week 56 - Free games for the weekdays - Police Quest 3 & 4 plus Blue Force en-US Sun, 12 Feb 2012 08:51:09 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 wizzard_of_ozz2004 on "Week 56 - Free games for the weekdays - Police Quest 3 & 4 plus Blue Force" http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/6297#post-65408 Wed, 07 Oct 2009 11:00:39 +0000 wizzard_of_ozz2004 65408@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ I can completely understand your feelings lady gray, my fiance's grandfather is a holocaust survivor and she is uber sensitive about stuff like that. I had to beg her to watch Schindler's List and she thanked me in the end, because she went to a jewish school that didn't cover the holocaust so she never really understood just how heartless nazis were. midori on "Week 56 - Free games for the weekdays - Police Quest 3 & 4 plus Blue Force" http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/6297#post-65403 Wed, 07 Oct 2009 04:08:28 +0000 midori 65403@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ I didn't notice it either, wrabbit... but then I was just scanning down a line of pictures. (but yeah, that fridge popped out at me... lol) But if you're super sensitive to certain things you tend to notice them, even if they don't pop out. And yes, the swastika is offensive to me also (I should hope to most!), but not if I see it used to create a setting, as in a movie. But your feelings are well understood, graylox. Whiterabbit-uk on "Week 56 - Free games for the weekdays - Police Quest 3 & 4 plus Blue Force" http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/6297#post-65402 Wed, 07 Oct 2009 01:51:06 +0000 Whiterabbit-uk 65402@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ I didn't even realize the symbol was there. just shows how observant I am. i'll take it off later. am just about to jump into a game of L4D with a few players. Then off to bed before hydro in several hours time. I'll get another image to replace the one with the Swastika. Sorry if you were offended Graylox. :( later WR notblocklox on "Week 56 - Free games for the weekdays - Police Quest 3 & 4 plus Blue Force" http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/6297#post-65395 Tue, 06 Oct 2009 23:14:28 +0000 notblocklox 65395@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ No, midori, I'm referring to the first. I can not tolerate Nazi symbols, though I understand that this is not meant as a glorification. Sorry, wrabbit, to hear that you still are having problems with the PMs. Therefore I sent you an email. Please have a look into your email account. I know others have similar problems with the PMs, maybe you can compare your experiences and help to find the glitch. midori on "Week 56 - Free games for the weekdays - Police Quest 3 & 4 plus Blue Force" http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/6297#post-65387 Tue, 06 Oct 2009 19:39:19 +0000 midori 65387@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ Hi, wrabbit... first of all, thanks for the games! Will be fun to play the precursors to the snazzy stuff out there now. Tho I was gonna remark on that lovely third picture (fridge) *gag* and that may be the one graylox is referring to. *&;-b Whiterabbit-uk on "Week 56 - Free games for the weekdays - Police Quest 3 & 4 plus Blue Force" http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/6297#post-65376 Tue, 06 Oct 2009 16:26:46 +0000 Whiterabbit-uk 65376@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ Hi Graylox, it says I have 17 unread PM's but I cannot find any of them in my list of PM's. Very Strange. If you think some of them are a little inappropriate i'll happily delete them? I can always replace them with others. Regards WR notblocklox on "Week 56 - Free games for the weekdays - Police Quest 3 & 4 plus Blue Force" http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/6297#post-65374 Tue, 06 Oct 2009 15:02:21 +0000 notblocklox 65374@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ Hi, Stephen, please have a look at your PMs or emails (regarding the pictures). Thanks Whiterabbit-uk on "Week 56 - Free games for the weekdays - Police Quest 3 & 4 plus Blue Force" http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/6297#post-65368 Tue, 06 Oct 2009 13:42:36 +0000 Whiterabbit-uk 65368@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ Okay, after working through some of the typos etc in my post above, I decided to post a game closely associated with Police Quest. The original developer who left to form his own game development studion Tsunami Games created a similar game called blue force. The graphics were slightly better than and he didn’t bog the game down I the procedural paper work of the fourth title. I thought it appropriate to add this to todays games. If you like the ones above, this will be an ideal companion. If you don’t, then I’ll have something completely different tomorrow.  Blue Force (17.9Mb) <center><img src="http://i853.photobucket.com/albums/ab93/whiterabbit03/Freeware%20Games/Blue%20Force/Blue-Force-300x297.jpg"></center> You're a cop - a rookie, following in your father's footsteps. Your old man was a darn good cop, and the reason you joined the force in the first place. The only problem is, he got killed one night, and the case was never solved. You're not actually trying to solve your father's murder, but you stumble upon some clues that make you change your priorities. <center><img src="http://i853.photobucket.com/albums/ab93/whiterabbit03/Freeware%20Games/Blue%20Force/Blue20Force_4.png"></center> Ryan graduates at the top of his class and joins the Jackson Beach PD, the same force his dad was on. He makes several arrests in connection with a National Guard armoury break-in. Just as he is about to tie these crimes in with his father's murder, Ryan is T-boned by a car while riding his police motorcycle. After spending weeks and possibly months in rehab, his father's old partner offers him a job as his assistant in his private investigation firm, and Ryan accepts. Eventually, the two discover a massive gun smuggling ring, tied to three main individuals: a man named Bradford Green, Stuart Cox—the Jackson Beach district attorney—and Ryan's parents' killer, Nico. <center><img src="http://i853.photobucket.com/albums/ab93/whiterabbit03/Freeware%20Games/Blue%20Force/Blue20Force_5.png"></center> You must bust a gang of weapon smugglers and be really careful about it. It's not enough just to find them, you must stay alive – and don't slip up, or you'll be demoted to a night watchman and you'll be of no use to anyone anymore! <center><img src="http://i853.photobucket.com/albums/ab93/whiterabbit03/Freeware%20Games/Blue%20Force/Blue20Force_7.png"></center> <center><img src="http://i853.photobucket.com/albums/ab93/whiterabbit03/Freeware%20Games/Blue%20Force/Blue-Force.png"></center> This game is something I would call a real life simulation. OK, there's a lot of imagination involved, but this game is trying to be as realistic as possible! Forget to empty your gun before cleaning it – you get shot in the head; always call for back-up, think first, act later, always be ready, maintain radio contact, use the correct procedure... you get the picture. In the end, Nico receives the death penalty, Green is sentenced to twenty years in prison, and Cox receives fifteen years. <center><img src="http://i853.photobucket.com/albums/ab93/whiterabbit03/Freeware%20Games/Blue%20Force/Blue_force.png"></center> You can find several Blue force video walkthroughs on you tube. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MRuRdifsIao&feature=player_embedded">Here’s </a> the first one and <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HNS38ooNAwU">Here’s</a> the sixth. :) The rest you can find <a href="http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Blue+force+Walkthroughs&search_type=&aq=f">HERE</a> You can download Blue Force from <a href="http://www.abandonia.com/en/games/319">HERE</a>, and you’ll find another link in my first post above. Also there’s a file containing codes needed while playing the game. ======================================================================================================== Whiterabbit-uk on "Week 56 - Free games for the weekdays - Police Quest 3 & 4 plus Blue Force" http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/6297#post-65360 Tue, 06 Oct 2009 11:58:02 +0000 Whiterabbit-uk 65360@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ The following games are precursors to the squad based action FPS game Swat 4 that was released a few years ago. For their age (16 to 18 years)they are remarkably good looking games. Both should play in Windows; but may not, depending upon your system set up. If they don't work, try changing the compatibility mode (via the properties menu - {right clicking on the executable and select properties, then change the compatibility to Win 95}) to see if that helps. If you still can't get it to work after that, then play them via DOSBox. If you're new to this site, you'll find a tutorial on how to use DOSBox easily and effectively, which was prepared by Wizzard in the games discussion thread - just look in the sticky section at the top of the list of threads. Police Quest IV: Open Season (18.2Mb) The game was released in 1994 by Sierra and is arguably the most realistic game about crime ever made. Police Quest 4: Open Season stirred a lot of controversy at the time of its release. The controversy arose due to two main factors: the departure of Police Quest creator Jim Walls to join other ex-Sierra employees at Tsunami (where he later designed a 'Police Quest-lite' game called Blue Force, which is also now available free <a href="http://www.abandonia.com/games/10867/">HERE</a>, and looks althogether much better than the the Police Force games. I would have posted a nice review of Blue Force instead of Police Quest if I'd known about it before hand; but this is an addendum to my post today, lol). also the the signing of Daryl F. Gates as game designer caused a big stir. The reason being was that less than a year earlier, Gates had been forced to retire as police chief of Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) following the LA riots that resulted from the public outcry over the brutal police beating of Rodney King, an event captured on a home video that was aired nationwide. True to his background, Gates recreated the gritty, no-holds-barred crime scene of LA in Open Season. The result is a very realistic police game that is unfortunately bogged down by numerous tedious, by the book? police procedures, game-crashing bugs, and a hackneyed plot full of cliché and stereotypes that are sure to offend some people. <center><img src="http://i853.photobucket.com/albums/ab93/whiterabbit03/Freeware%20Games/Police%20Quest%204/screenshot1323-3.png"></center> In contrast to the previous 3 games in the series, you are no longer Sonny Bonds, local hero in the small town of Lytton. Instead, you are J ohn Carey, a young, clean-cut LAPD detective. As the game begins, your best friend Bob Hickman, an undercover detective, has just been killed by poison and horrific torture. Your boss, Lieutenant Block, has given you a go-ahead to find his killer, but not without first cautioning you not to let personal feelings cloud your professional judgment. As you investigate Hickman?s last assignment, interview suspects, and gather evidence, you will be drawn into a sinister world of LA underground, tracking down a mad serial killer who is on the loose. Fittingly enough for the most realistic game in the series, Open Season is the first game from Sierra to feature photo-realistic rendering rather than traditional animations for both characters and backgrounds. The basic game play, however, remains the same as other Sierra titles, except it is made much more tedious by the strong emphasis on actual police procedures. For example, you will need to fill out various forms that real policemen use, and check your gnu more times than you care to remember. The game even includes an abridged version of the manual that LAPD officers actually use, the procedures in which you need to follow by the letter in order to finish the game. <center><img src="http://i853.photobucket.com/albums/ab93/whiterabbit03/Freeware%20Games/Police%20Quest%204/abridgedmanual.jpg"></center> The tedium of police paperwork is made worse by the extreme linearity of game play: in contrast to earlier Police Quest games where you do not have to follow every step of police procedures to finish the game, but could do so to obtain optional points, Open Season simply refuses to let you progress until every step has been taken, and thereby maximum score for that scene obtain. A good example of this is the opening crime scene: until you click your notebook on every important item in the scene (to record your observations), collect every possible evidence, and follow every relevant procedure, the game will not let you leave the scene. This makes the game very easy in addition to it being very tedious. Realism is always nice, but clearly Open Season offers realism at the expense of playability. When you fill out form 3.14 for the umpteenth time, you will see what I mean. <center><img src="http://i853.photobucket.com/albums/ab93/whiterabbit03/Freeware%20Games/Police%20Quest%204/screenshot1323-1.gif"></center> Overall, with easy puzzles that feel more like paperwork than a real challenge, a cliché, plot, and a stickler to realism, Open Season is going to be a disappointing end to a great series for most enthusiasts of this series and will probably only appeal to anyone who is curious about what LAPD detectives do in real life. Given the games focus on realism as opposed to adventure-genre puzzle solving, it is not surprising that Sierra decided to switch the genre from adventure to simulation in the sequels, and renamed the series to Police Quest: SWAT. Hints and Cheats: • Arcade mini-games - The arcade machines in the Short Stop Bar can be played. Make sure the arcade machine is not being played by anyone. Place a couple of coins in the machine, then click on the machine with the hand icon to play the rocket game or truck game. • Extra points - Do the following for points. You can either feed the dog in Griffith park pretzels, or shine light in his face with your broken car mirror to earn points. For example, feed him the pretzels, then go to the map screen. Go back to the park, then use the mirror on him. Use the tool you made with the mirror, glue, and drumstick to check under the bed in the "mysterious place". Record the trapdoor and the shoe in the "mysterious place" in your notebook. If you want, at the Parker center computer, you can look up Wendy James and Erik (the guy listed under Walker's profile) under hate crimes for some interesting information. • Extra Points - Call Lieutenant Varaz to get 3 points each time. • Shocking discovery - After you get the skeleton key in the Third Eye theater, go to the bathroom. Unlock the paper towel dispenser with the key. Record the discovery and put it in a bag. • Game tells you not to cheat - Try entering the license plate number "E2BSY669" in the computer before you get that information. Reference: The hints and cheats were found <a href="http://www.gamewinners.com/DOSWIN/blpolicequest4.htm">HERE</a> Check out the You Tube video of Police Quest 4 <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-9oLAYGb3E">HERE</a>, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eHOb9uGdD1c">HERE</a>, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ECmxt_Q1sEU">HERE</a> and <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=syzQSK16jcY">HERE</a> If you need a walkthrough of the game you’ll find a good one <a href="http://tawmis.com/onlinesierra/pq4.html">HERE</a> <center><img src="http://i853.photobucket.com/albums/ab93/whiterabbit03/Freeware%20Games/Police%20Quest%204/snapshot20090127190645_bmp.jpg"></center> You do require a free subscription to be able to download this game. The site seems okay, though there were pop ups appearing. Once I’d subscribed I was able to download the file without having to verify my Email, so if you’re not happy about giving your email out try using one of those disposable emails. :) You can download Police quest IV <a href="http://dosgamer.com/police-quest-iv-open-season/download/">HERE</a> and you can get a manual for the game <a href="http://www.replacementdocs.com/download.php?view.1051">HERE</a> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Police quest III: The Kindred (5.21Mb) <center><img src="http://i853.photobucket.com/albums/ab93/whiterabbit03/Freeware%20Games/Police%20quest%203/cover.jpg"></center> The third police quest game which is set in the town of Lytton opens as Sonny Bond's wife is brutally attacked by the brother of Jessie Bains. <center><img src="http://i853.photobucket.com/albums/ab93/whiterabbit03/Freeware%20Games/Police%20quest%203/Police_Quest_3_-_Map.gif"></center> <center><img src="http://i853.photobucket.com/albums/ab93/whiterabbit03/Freeware%20Games/Police%20quest%203/map-treetgridoflytton.jpg"></center> Sonny Bond and Marie got 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. The game opens with sonny’s wife Marie is stabbed in a mall parking lot by the brother of Jessie Bains, which makes Sonny's police work personal. <center><img src="http://i853.photobucket.com/albums/ab93/whiterabbit03/Freeware%20Games/Police%20quest%203/police-quest-3-the-kindred_5.jpg"></center> Sonny must deal with Pat Morales, his new partner who displays some questionable ethics and may be hiding something. He must also find patterns in a growing series of crimes to find his next lead. Combined with ritualistic killings in the city and his wife clinging to life in the hospital, Bonds must catch the killer and find the attacker of his wife. <center><img src="http://i853.photobucket.com/albums/ab93/whiterabbit03/Freeware%20Games/Police%20quest%203/PolieQuest3002.jpg"></center> Police quest 3 magazine reviews : <a href="http://amr.abime.net/review_7552" rel="nofollow">http://amr.abime.net/review_7552</a> <a href="http://amr.abime.net/review_35569" rel="nofollow">http://amr.abime.net/review_35569</a> <a href="http://amr.abime.net/review_39769" rel="nofollow">http://amr.abime.net/review_39769</a> <a href="http://amr.abime.net/review_954" rel="nofollow">http://amr.abime.net/review_954</a> <center><img src="http://i853.photobucket.com/albums/ab93/whiterabbit03/Freeware%20Games/Police%20quest%203/policequestIII-arrestcodes.jpg"></center> You can find a walkthrough of the game <a href="http://www.oldgames.sk/en/game/police-quest-3-the-kindred/download/591/&usg=__D4U0QXaF09VzpRuNTlQMOMF-H-U=&h=359&w=600&sz=37&hl=en&start=34&tbnid=vfGgVbmZ0uh31M:&tbnh=81&tbnw=135&prev=/images%3Fq%3DPolice%2Bquest%2B3%26gbv%3D2%26ndsp%3D18%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DN%26start%3D18">HERE</a> or <a href="http://tawmis.com/onlinesierra/pq3.html">HERE</a> <center><img src="http://i853.photobucket.com/albums/ab93/whiterabbit03/Freeware%20Games/Police%20quest%203/PolieQuest3003.jpg"></center> Check out the you tube video of Police quest 3 <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqjZxLQu5EE">HERE</a> and <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwhA3jIVBW8">HERE</a> and <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CU-x0hyH_pg">HERE</a> You can download Police Quest III: The Kindred <a href="http://dosgamer.com/police-quest-iii-the-kindred/">HERE</a>, though as with Police Quest IV above you’ll require a free account first, or alternatively you can download if from a French site called Lost Treasures, <a href="http://www.abandonware-france.org/ltf_abandon/ltf_jeu.php?id=451">HERE</a>. If you can’t read French look for the words Telecharger. There’s also a copy of the games manual available just below the download link. :) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Police Quest I and II are also available from many abandonware sites. The graphics are a little more basic, but the game play is similar. The first one called Police Quest: In Pursuit of the Death Angel can be downloaded from <a href="http://www.abandonware-utopia.com/index.php?page=telechargement%26id=628">HERE</a> (13.5Mb), (just click on the Telecharger link, which takes you to another page where you again need to click on Telecharger) together with the manual from <a href="http://www.replacementdocs.com/download.php?view.1943">HERE</a> and Police Quest 2 <a href="http://www.abandonware-france.org/ltf_abandon/ltf_jeu.php?id=428">HERE</a>, amd the manual for the latter game can be downloaded from <a href="http://www.replacementdocs.com/download.php?view.741">HERE</a> Police Quest I: <center><img src="http://i853.photobucket.com/albums/ab93/whiterabbit03/Freeware%20Games/Police%20quest%203/policequest1.png"></center> Police Quest II: <center><img src="http://i853.photobucket.com/albums/ab93/whiterabbit03/Freeware%20Games/Police%20quest%203/police_quest_2.png"></center> =====================================================================================================