SeptimusHeap
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Mar 23rd 2021 at 10:37:50 AM
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Linking to a past Trope Repair Shop thread that dealt with this page: Merge LemmingCops & HollywoodPoliceDrivingAcademy
, started by JohnDiFool on Nov 15th 2010 at 4:56:28 AM
ElodieHiras
Since: Sep, 2010
Feb 6th 2020 at 8:42:42 AM
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Do military examples count under Tropes Are Flexible?
The Tank Commander from Rebel Inc. does get access to a military initiative called "Advanced Driving Classes" to reduce the negative impact caused by his tank divisions on local support... Then again, we're talking about tanks there, so it may be a Justified Trope here...
I'm removing these because the first one is rambling and unclear, and the second is low on context. Also, both seem to come from AI limitations, not how the police are intended to look.
- Grand Theft Auto series. The Police, Ambulance-drivers, and — to an even greater degree — the FBI-agents. The general level of crazy driving varies a lot from game to game.
- Grand Theft Auto had cops that were rather hard to shake, Grand Theft Auto 2 was similar, though slightly easier.
- Grand Theft Auto 3 - the cops could keep up with you on a straight road if you had an average car.
- Grand Theft Auto: Vice City - The cops learned from the Hazard County Sheriffs. Then did a lot of blow, apparently!
- Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas - The police would rather kamikaze you with their cars. San Andreas has a well-supported PIT maneuver
mechanic, so there can be method to their madness.
- Grand Theft Auto IV - Despite its more serious take on the series, the cops would rather sit at the side of the road and watch you speed by in a crippled minivan. This time the game spawns new cops ahead of you instead of making AI good enough to actually chase you. When they do chase, they almost drive reasonably.
- If you happen to be standing at the bottom of a cliff, any cops at the top will gleefully drive off to their deaths.
- In Chinatown Wars for the DS, where the cops were memorably described in Zero Punctuation as "having brick wall magnets attached to their bumpers."
- Grand Theft Auto V - The cops are far more aggressive than they were in IV, although they would rather keep ramming you from behind than try hitting you from the front or side most of the time... until the NOOSE units turn up, that is.
- The cops in Need for Speed games are easily shut down, except when you play as them.
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