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The fifth game in the Police Quest and SWAT series doesn't have any plot whatsoever, unlike the other.
The game's in-game menus, which are used for communicating with fellow officers and selecting weapons and items, are confusing to navigate.
Despite its artificial difficulty and tedious gameplay, the game is actually very short because of lack of missions. Most of the game is spent just exercising in a police room.....which is the exact reason why there are only three missions in the whole game (a mentally ill grandmother, a barricaded fugitive, and a terrorist attack).
The game's FMV cutscenes feature lackluster acting, and the voice acting doesn't fare much better. If you try to skip the pointless cutscenes, the characters will get angry and tell you off for interrupting. But the characters yelling at you when you pass the cutscenes are actually a bit funny to watch.
The gameplay is very confusing and tedious, especially during the training sections, which make up most of the game. These training sections will have you repeating the same movements and shots over and over again for what seems like an eternity, and it's not even fun.
The game is very unforgiving of mistakes, and makes little effort to explain the key features and items of the game, such as the LASH or the mirror, to you. As a result, the game can be very confusing, and it sometimes just comes down to trial and error to figure out what works and what gets you killed or told off by your boss.
One of the worst games I have ever played overall.