Die Police-Quest-Reihe hat wirklich Spaß gemacht. Für Teil 3 und 4 gibt es einen deutschen Sprach-Patch für die Steam-Version (!) im Netz (nur Text, nicht Sprache, also OmU).

Der remasterte erste Teil ist super spielbar (mit Point-and-Click-Steuerung).

Teil 2 ist von der Steuerung sehr hakelig und hat keinen Spaß gemacht. Zudem sind Parser-Eingaben notwendig (kein Point-and-Click), was mir auf Englisch zusätzlich nur begrenzt Spaß gemacht hat.

Teil 3 ist ähnlich dem ersten Teil, und ebenfalls gut spielbar. Schade, dass man noch immer nervig mit dem Auto zu den Tatorten fahren muss.

Teil 4 ist letztlich das Sahnehäubchen der Reihe.

As a Police Quest veteran, here's some tips that will maximize your enjoyment of these games:

Police Quest 1: Ignore all cleavage, but practice your pimp walk with a cane.
Police Quest 2: Always check your sights and wear proper ear protection (and lung protecton)...and other protection...but never ever under any circumstances dry your hands.
Police Quest 3: Never shoot first. Unless it's daytime. And you are in a bar. And a biker gives you a mean look. Then you're good. Yeah. Squeeze that trigger and gets dem feels, you closet sociopath.
Police Quest 4: Be careful whose fridges you open unless you want nightmares for weeks. 4srs.

NOTE:

Even though this release uses the exact same artwork, do not confuse it with the original retail release (called "The Daryl F. Gates Police Quest Collection"). This one is taken from the later "Daryl F. Gates Police Quest Collection: The 4 Most Wanted".

Confused yet?

The original collection contains Police Quest: SWAT, this one does not. If you are like me and got this set via Humble Bundle where you could not see the complete contents, you might be surprised to find SWAT is not present in this and that no, you cannot get rid of your gynormously massive physical copy of it yet.

Please God, one day, have mercy.

Anyway, you can be sure that Jim Walls would be very upset at this point, and may come out of his retirement and to Valve HQ over this. There has got to be a little pent-up rage after Gates stole his thunder with the inferior and ultra dark Open Season, then smeared his name all over the series.

Me? I'll let you off with a warning.

By the way, Steam Game Entry dudes, Police Quest 2: The Vengeance, is called just that, not "THE VENGEANCE OF BAINS", as is written in your game synopsis. PQ2 is a cool game about homicide detective work, not your codeword to your broz for your girlfriend's annnngry PMS phase. Change that.

Oh yeah, and the games are good. Play them.

BTW, am I a loser if I remember all the copy-protection PQ2 mugshots from back in 1989 and don't need a manual?

Nostalgia overload!!! I remember sitting in my friends basement playing this on his little machintosh. Countless hours spent moving through the story just to get beat up by the bikers because we left the nightstick in the car, who knew it wasn't on your person? PQ1 by far is the best of the 3 even though they are all good. 3 you say, but theres 4 included in here...4 is dead to me, I hated any of those games in the late 80' 90's that tried to look like real life graphics in exchange for GARBAGE gameplay and story!

10/10 would knock over the bikers bikes again despite the consequences

What a blast from the past! I bought it immediately, and have been going on patrols since.

The only negative comment I have is that The Gazette (part of game documentation) is missing, or I didn't know where to find it. No worries, though...it's available online.

10/10 would shower with naked cop again.

Police Quest 1 was my first real graphical adventure game. I used to play those textual adventures on my Commodore 64 before that (you know, games with little or no graphics at all and everything was simply described by a wall of text). PQ1 was like a first real love, the kind you meet in later years of elementary school so I guess that makes those C64 adventures - kindergarten girls :)

Anyway, I cannot be objective about this game. I love it, I play them all over again every few years and I never got bored. I am glad I can play them on Steam now, so no need to pull them out from shelves any more.

Enjoy this beautiful piece of gaming history!

If you never played around with Police Quest back in the day, it won't have the same charm from days of yore.
(and it's the charm that's really the backbone of this collection in 2021)

Whilst the original Police Quest was given a wonderful VGA makeover in 1992 which updated the graphics and sound dramatically (and also introduced the familiar point and click interface)

Police Quest 2 was never given this treatment. I'm afraid EGA graphics with Sierra's Interpreter parser engine is just far too dated to be enjoyable in the modern world, which is a real shame because jumping from PQ1 to PQ3 means you miss out on a chapter of Sonny Bonds life.

Whilst PQ is an enjoyable game and a very realistic take on Police Procedures - it's very unforgiving. Something we very rarely see in PnC's is dead ends or death. Police Quest has this in abundance.

Forgot to search a suspect after handcuffing them? ... .you best hope your last save wasn't too far back
Not got your gun holstered at the correct time? ....queue the death cutscene
Missed something from the Previous day? - The game will continue which seems like you're doing fine, but you will hit a dead end (sometimes takes a while to even realise this)

This can be very frustrating but also goes back to the 'charm' element of these games. You're happy to forgive these shortcomings as you want to follow the story of Sonny Bonds life on the beat.

and then along comes Police Quest 4 . .. . . . . in an age where digitised graphics were the style of the moment (Mortal Kombat - Pitfighter etc) PQ4 jumped on the wagon and whilst at first sight, it looks great. It's really a step backwards in the series.

No Longer are we following the life of Sonny Bonds in fictional Lytton County. We take control of John Carey in a real life L.A

what?! . . .how could they!

The digitised graphics make this game very poor. Objects don't stand out on the digital photographed backgrounds, so you find yourself mindlessly clicking the look button on every square inch of the screen so as to be sure you haven't missed anything.

PQ4 introduced speech to the series for the first time.......awful - straight back to text option.....

To summarise - PQ is a great series which is well worth playing through if you had any experience with it back in the day. it really does follow Police Procedures very well and seeing Sonny go from Traffic Cop to Sergeant warms the heart. If only PQ2 was given that magic VGA makeover ......it would fill a disappointing void in the series

(one word of advice - Print the grid map for PQ3 - it makes a fairly frustrating driving engine a whole lot better)

The Police Quest games made me. I have no fonder means by which to describe these fine exemplars of the SIerra adventure game ethos--perhaps the finest exemplars that exist. Police Quest is not about relentless action, intrigue, or carnage. It is about following the rules and abiding by the manual; it is about falling in line and being a cog in the massive gears of police work. Police Quest is a gem, a treasure.

This is when adventure games were great.
I love the old Sierra games and had them all on the Atari ST back in the 80s when they came out and then continued the series on PC. I used to have this collection years ago that I picked up in USA must of been 2001 when I saw it in a wall mark but in all the moves I have missplaced it so when it came on stream it was a no brainer.
The games work well on my windows 10 machine and when you start the launcher it automatically opens up Dosbox and loads the game, which is to be expected on a game of this age that it would need something to help it run on modern computers. you don't need to worry though it sorts it all out when you install it and run it on steam.

Fantastic series in fact I would go as far as personally one of the best adventure series I have played. but then all quest games are awesome along with the Larry games.

If you want to relieve some retro gaming or old adventures well worth the buy but take into account the graphics are extremely dated but the story more then makes up for that and keeps you immersed, something many games today miss/lack.

Highly recommend

Old school classic right here. If you know, you know.

Old school gaming a bit of nostalgic game for me one of the 1 st games I ever played but still fun and entertaining