Sierra Saturday: Let's Play Blue Force - Episode 7 - Plot Twist?
8It's Tsunami Tsaturday! Let's Play Blue Force! It's the Police Quest IV that never happened, created by Jim Walls after his departure from Sierra On-Line, now at Tsunami Games. Follow the budding career of rookie bike cop Jake Ryan as he works to tie a stolen cache of weapons from the National Guard with the murder of his father years prior.
In this episode:
Completely from left field, on his 2nd day of work, Jake is utterly destoryed while riding his motorcycle, and ends up hospitalized for an indeterminate number of weeks. A sign that Jim wanted Jake to have some freedom to investigate without needing to lean on the police work angle for a while, we suddenly find ourselves moving from Police show to Private investigator! Also, Matt apologizes.
Watch More Sierra Saturday: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLacwSBKCWdF9-htFaruUyoAH1pEP812W9
The NPCs play Police Quest I: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cpeR8677_MQ&list=PLacwSBKCWdF-5Js2QhY8QmYEEx30F5b_e
The NPCs play Police Quest II: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NhmsEozLND0&list=PLacwSBKCWdF-m_haYDWPgrPlPci3SSnB-
The NPCs play Police Quest III: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5KXyx1yRYpk&list=PLacwSBKCWdF_fxXum_dRgADg_nu2jwpXZ
Watch ThursDev: Pointing & Clicking - The rise & fall & rise of the Adventure Game: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRGOp0p4ch4
Blue Force was released in 1993 by Tsunami Games, designed by Sierra On-Line alumnus Jim Walls, of Police Quest fame, as a sort of spiritual sequel to the Sonny Bonds trilogy of his previous games. Similar to his other work, it tells the story of an all-american government backed squeaky-clean super cop as he from his first day at work as a bike cop, begins to unravel a decade-long unsolved mystery tying a gun running ring with the murder of his own parents.
Blue Force is another "Procedure First" Cop adventure simulation, leaning heavily on the shoulders of following protocol, making the right radio calls, and filing the right paperwork. It has a well-meaning concept and is an overall fun game if the Police Quest series is your "bag", though was critically underwhelming, citing bad spelling, factual inconsistencies, clumsy dialogue and a game world of "prop-up facades" making it hard to really dive deep into the setting they created.
The NPCs are playing Blue Force with Roland MT-32 audio.
Sierra Saturday is a weekly series on the Level 0 NPCs channel, where Matt & Luke relive their childhoods playing classic adventure games of the '80s and '90s (and beyond?). Sierra adventure games were a special breed of dark humor, brutally unfair puzzles and unforgettable characters, and we hope you enjoy this walk down memory lane with us.
Get Jim Walls's Police Quest Adventure series on PC!
On GOG: https://www.gog.com/game/police_quest_1_2_3_4
Blue Force is copyright © Tsunami Games
The "GloryQuest" font was created by the12thdoctor on Fontstruct: http://fontstruct.com/fontstructions/show/115072/gloryquest
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