It’ll be a Winner
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 is released in a few minutes time. It’s expected to be the biggest selling computer game in the history of mankind & is set to earn more than $150 squillion in its first two minutes, or something.
I won’t be queuing up at my local compuer game store as, obviously, I am writing this at home & it’s quite cold out there, but I have ordered it. Being a police officer (or should I say ex-police officer), clearly, I like nothing better than running round the streets of the UK & gunning down anyone I can see, guilty or innocent. The great thing with games like Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 is that you can do this & you don’t even get suspended & have to face being slagged off by the IPCC before they’ve had an investigation, because there are no investigations, you can shoot whoever you want & blow them up in all sorts of inventive ways.
I used to do a lot of gaming but always seem to be busy doing other things – like writing blog drivel – to get back into it. So I’ve decided to fall for all the hype & get the latest. I blame Radio 5 to be fair, it was only hearing the story about the game’s release tonight on the way home from work that I even knew it existed. I’ve never even played Call of Duty 1, 2, 3 or 4. I was a more Rainbow Six franchise kind of guy.
I often wonder why there hasn’t been a really successful police game, that’s if you don’t include SWAT 1,2,3 or 4 which was basically just Doom in blue suits without the scarey monsters.
I think it could be really cool recreating the whole police world in a computer game. You could spend the first half of the game reading pointless emails, hook up with all your exciting equipment like a pen & a torch & a baton which could inflict some serious damage (on car windows) & you could draw a straw to see if you were the only authorised Taser officer in the division for really violent encounters.
When you found a car that worked & had cleaned up either the vomit or the spilled milk from the previous shift, you could hit the roads looking for trouble. The control room would send you on really shite domestics for most of the game but there would be a chance of a fight occurring in the gaming world & the computer would issue a 1 in 10 chance that you weren’t taking a pointless statement from someone who would withdraw the allegation in part 2 of the game.
When you got to the fight & the really juicy action started you could wait round the corner while the control room inspector gave authorisation to draw your rail-gun (that you haven’t got ‘cos only Firearms have them & they’re not allowed to use them if there is a Y in the day of the week), then you’d be sent into battle with the baddies. If you looked at one in a funny way or used the word ‘fuck’ you’d be instantly hauled out of the arena to spend the rest of the game sitting outside an office in the IPCC building while all your mates drive round the town centre with pump action shotguns shooting chavs & pedophiles.
I’ll call it ‘Constabulary 4: The Reckoning‘. I don’t know if it’ll make $150 squillion, but I reckon it could be a runner.
the_leander says:
Was in my local Tesco around 11:30 getting some bits and bobs and noticed a line to one side of the store… Which was running the length of the store.
Easily over a hundred folk in just that one store and the line was bigger as I left a few minutes later. So I can well believe it’ll make major bank in the next day or so.
I remember playing the original Call of Duty some years back, was actually a very immersive experience – like actually being in Saving Private Ryan or Band of Brothers. Never played the later ones.
November 10th, 2009 at 2:29 am
Brother Random says:
Work that idea into a proper pitch 200 and see if it floats. There’ve been a few games that incorporated ‘work’ in them (as work fits into a computer game).
If the private sector isn’t biting, then pitch it to the police as an ‘Online Training Aid’. Doing it online will give the feel of having to wait for other people not on your shift to do something before you can move on with your job.
November 10th, 2009 at 8:53 am
Fee says:
Does anyone know if this is out (or expected) for the Wii? My hubby loves these games, and Christmas is coming …
November 10th, 2009 at 2:48 pm
PC A HUNN says:
If it was a true Police game then the fucker would crash repeatedly as nothing ever works properly. I’d like the car chase when you get to try and “follow” a stolen Suberu in a 1.4 Diesel astra around a housing estate before loosing it after 30 seconds then sloping off for a kip by the allotments on night shift.
You could bring out an expansion pack for it called “Community Coppering” where you get to have tea drinking competitions with colleagues and then get shouted at by Councelors at forum meetings.
The end prize could be when you finaly get to be promoted to Inspector and get a blow job off the Pretty Blonde PCSO.
November 10th, 2009 at 2:59 pm
R/T says:
Fee – you’d better believe it!
200 – this is without doubt the funniest post I have ever read on your (or any other Police, for that matter) blog. I haven’t laughed so much since the last R/T car was sent bacl to the menders twice in the same shift!!
November 10th, 2009 at 3:13 pm
Civ_In_The_City says:
Snap! My copy is on order too. I picked up Call of Duty Modern Warfare 1 for £20 a couple of months ago, it`s pretty intense stuff and good fun. The trailer for the sequel is good too.
I see a police based game being more like those old fashioned text adventures where you had to type your instructions.
PLAYER: Use loud voice
COMPUTER: That does not work
PLAYER: Use metal stick
COMPUTER: That does not work
PLAYER: Use CS spray
COMPUTER: You do not have CS spray
PLAYER: Use pistol
COMPUTER: You do not have pistol
PLAYER: Call backup
COMPUTER: You do not have backup
PLAYER: Kiss ass goodbye
COMPUTER: You do not have ass
PLAYER: Strike
COMPUTER: Strike is illegal at this time
PLAYER: Run
COMPUTER: You try to run but a mountain of biros and paperwork bog you down
PLAYER: Help
COMPUTER: You do not have help
….
November 10th, 2009 at 9:48 pm
retired (northern) sgt says:
Fee- if your hubby likes proper games then get him a proper console for Xmas- it would be to a man what flowers, chocolate, romance and diamonds are to a woman.
November 10th, 2009 at 10:53 pm
Tony F says:
I like ‘Half Life’…..
November 11th, 2009 at 10:39 pm
sas470 says:
Hi there, 200.
My wife follows your blog, and often reads out bits she thinks I’ll find interesting/amusing. Have you got your copy of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 yet? When you start playing online, please look out for me (sas470)… I’d like to team up with you and show the youngsters what age and experience can do! Hope to see you on the ‘battlefield’ soon.
November 14th, 2009 at 12:30 pm