This is the Police er en af de titler, vi virkelig ser frem til at prøve, når det udkommer den 28. juli. Man kan drage linjer mellem de handlinger, man skal udføre i spillet, og den politi korruption der finder sted i den virkelige verden.
"You know, it's really easy to get this sort of coincidence, because instances of police corruption, or malpractice, happen all the time," fortalte Game Director Ilya Yanovich Vice.
"It's happened a lot here in Belarus, but police not doing their job properly is an international thing that we see happening all the time. We're in a situation right now in the United States, and some parts of Europe, where it seems more highlighted, that things happen more frequently; but I think it's generally just a massive problem, a big issue, worldwide."
Efter at vi selv havde prøvet begyndelsen af spillet, sad vi tilbage med det klare indtryk, at det foregik i Nordamerika. USA eller måske med lidt god vilje Canada. Ikke kun på grund af stemmearbejdet, der er udført at Duke Nukem VO Artist Jon St Jon, men også på grund af hele designet af byen. Men studiet insisterer dog på, at det ikke er tilfældet:
"The time the game's set in is the mid-1980s, and we're trying not to be too specific about where it's happening, as we didn't mean for it to give the impression of being in the United States. We started to develop the game before these reports of police brutality started coming out of the United States, as regularly as they have been. We knew we wanted to make it as universal as possible, so we have no clear signs about what country this is. There are no flag, nothing like that."
Vi hr tidligere noteret, at der er en række moralske gråzoner i spillet, som kunne give en masse stof til eftertanke.
"Pretty much the whole game is about choosing between bad and bad. It's hard to tell what level of evil any direction is, sometimes; although it's less about different levels of bad, and more different kinds of bad," fortalte Yanovich dem.
En ny trailer landede for This is the Police sammen med udgvelsesdatoens afsløring. Den kan du se herunder: