History VideoGame / BlueForce

The game follows a rookie police officer, Jake Ryan, whose parents were slain ten years prior in an unsolved murder. However, when new evidence begins turning up, Jake Ryan teams up with his father's former partner in order to solve this crime once and for all and put his parents' murderers behind bars.

* TimeSkip: The game's intro shows what happened in 1984 with the murder of Jake's parents, then cuts to eleven years later when he's become a top-level police academy student and the game's events happen.

* NoEnding: [[spoiler: The game just ends with the three antagonists being escorted to prison, having received their sentences. After that, it just ends. No long term resolution or even a mention of what Jake Ryan is doing after that.]]

* DeliberatelyMonochrome: The game's intro is in monochrome, likely to make the colored credits stand out better.

* GoFetch: Jake can play fetch with his dog. [[spoiler: The dog eventually brings over a piece of a wooden supply crate, which happens to be part of a heist that took place.]]

* KilledOffScreen: [[spoiler: In the end game, after taking care of one gang banger, Lyle had already flanked and dispatched the other.]]
** [[spoiler: Forbes, the ATF agent, mentioned having to take care of a couple of snipers on the way there. The ATF ''doesn't'' mess around.]]

* LoopholeAbuse: Implied as to how [[spoiler: Straut Cox kept the bad guys out of prison.]]

* NearDeathExperience: [[spoiler: Jake Ryan gets caught in an accident on his second day at work. He's been hospitalized for weeks, and put on disability leave until he heals up.]]

* NonStandardGameOver: [[spoiler: After taking an M4 from a hidden room at the warehouse, Jake then decides that he must cover his tracks before leaving. Failure to reverse all of his actions (including locking the doors and taking the net back) will have the game go along normally, until Jake wakes up the next day to be informed that Lyle and the ATF found the complex completely cleaned out, with Jake cursing himself for making the mistake.]]

* TimeSkip: The game's intro shows what happened in 1984 with the murder of Jake's parents, then cuts to eleven years later when he's become an established policeman and the game's events happen.

* ChekhovsGun: Your handgun [[spoiler: which is suprisingly averted. There are times where you have to have it equiped in certain situations, [[RedHerring but at no point in the game are you suppose to actually use it.]] The only action sequence you get involved in is solved by a hand grenade.]]

* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler: Bradford, when forced out of the future wave, [[TakingYouWithMe carries a hand grenade with the pin pulled, intent on taking Jake and Lyle with him.]] Fortunately, some convincing reveals that Bradford isn't that suicidal and gives up peacefully.]]

* Smoldering shoes: Game overs that involve an explosion show only the protagonist's shoes and smoke coming from them.

* WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue: [[spoiler: Nico Dillon is to get a lethal injection, Bradford Green is imprisoned for 20 years without parole, and Staurt Cox is imprisoned for 15 years without parole.]]

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* TheReveal: [[spoiler: Jake and Lyle eventually apprehend Nico Dillon, who Jake suddenly remembered that he is his parents murderer.]]

--> '''Jake''': They'll need a bucket and a shovel to pick up all that'll be left of you, scumbag!

The game follows a rookie police officer, Jake Ryan, whose parents were slain ten years prior in an unsolved murder. However, when new evidence begins turning up, Jake Ryan teams up with his father's former partner in order to solve this crime once and for all and put his parents' murderer behind bars.

Blue Force was released in 1993 for DOS as a successor to the ''VideoGame/PoliceQuest'' series of adventure games by former series creator: Jim Walls, who had moved on to working for Tsunami Games at the time. The game follows a rookie police officer: Jake Ryan, whose parents were slain eleven years prior to the events of this game.

--> Kate: Have your got your own place, Jake?
--> Jake: No, I live with my grandmother.
--> Kate: Too bad.

--> Jake: You guys sure do look alike!

--> Lyle: Bein' a PI is a lot different than being a cop, Jake. We can bend the rules a little and get away with it.

--> Lyle: Why not? Your name's already on the stationary.

--> Jake: They'll need a bucket and a shovel to pick up all that'll be left of you, scumbag!

* CreatorCameo: Jim walls is in the introduction of the game.

Blue Force was released in 1993 for DOS as a successor to the [[VideoGame/PoliceQuest Police Quest]] series of adventure games by former series creator: Jim Walls, who had moved on to working for Tsunami Games at the time. The game follows a rookie police officer: Jake Ryan, whose parents were slain eleven years prior to the events of this game.

* AllThereInTheManual: Carrying on the tradition of PoliceQuest and other adventure games, the means of progressing in the game is in the manual.

* ByTheBookCop: Once again, like PoliceQuest, you will have to try to uphold the law to the best of your abilities. Don't forget to read your offenders their rights!

* SpiritualSuccessor: Of the PoliceQuest series.

* ImpliedLoveInterest: Jake Ryan has been hitting on Ms. McCoy at the county jail. She has been receptive too.

* NonStandardGameOver: [[spoiler: After taking an M4 from a hidden room at the warehouse, Jake then decides that he must cover his tracks before leaving. Failure to reverse all of his actions (including locking the doors and taking the net back) will have the game go along normally, only for the crates and the villains to disappear entirely by the time Jake and Lyle get to the island.]]

* SymbolSwearing: Present here. [[PrecisionFStrike Averted once with one of the gangbangers.

* MoodSwinger: Minor example: Doug looks a little bored or unhappy (Jake even lampshades that Doug might not care very much of himself). However, he seems quite happy when he pulls over a drunk driver, likely because he's having fun with the driver's act.
* MommasBoy: Jake lives with his grand mother. [[ParentalSubstitute He's glad to have family being able to raise him.]]

* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler: Bradford, when forced out of the future wave, [[TakingYouWithMe carries a hand grenade with the pin pulled, intent on taking Jake and Lyle with him. Fortunately, some convincing reveals that Bradford isn't that suicidal and gives up peacefully.]]

* CowboyCop: The briefing starts with the white board that immediately discourages you from invoking this trope. Given that Jim Walls made this game, it's inevitable that this will get averted.

* NoSoDifferent: A positive example is that Skip and Jake both lost their fathers in their lives. Skip has a baseball card that his father gave him, and he will throw a temper tandrum if he doesn't have it. It means that much to him.

* TrainingMontage: You get to see a brief one with Ryanin the introduction.