Police Quest 4 - Open Season

[Kosta]

Feel free to comment and discuss this game here. Also, if you have any useful tips or tricks don't hesitate to share them with the others! Thanks!

Review (http://www.abandonia.com/en/games/128)

[Dream]

Help!

I am stuck right from beginning, I can not leave, he tells me all the time I did not finished why I came in there.

I did: Examined both bodies, noted both bodies and graffiti, talked with all the policemen, and these two black guys watching the scene.

What more should I do?

[Stroggy]

use the chalk to mark the body and the object near the body

[Dream]

I chalked the body, didn't noticed the object near body though, thanks!

[Anonymous]

No, what u should really do is get a walkthrough. The game gets harder later. Much harder

[Tom Henrik]

Of course it is difficult.

It is an old Sierra game! :lol:

[dadaas]

Those old adventures games were very very difficult.
Did someone play MAD DOG!
I know i play Gabriel(i think that was name of game),very good adventure.
Same as sherlock holmes adventures.
Huh when i came here on this forum i just realized how many there was awsome games for DOS.

[Red Diablo]

You wanna talk about hard games:

'The detective' for C64 !

Hardest case solving game I've ever played.
People gets killed all the time at different places with different objects.
And the music when you walk in to a room where someone's been killed still scares the shite out of me... : :shock:

Good game though...

[Red Diablo]

HEY !

Why did my 5hite automaticly turn into 'cow-dropping' ??? :D

5hite's not such a bad word ?

[olzen]

The difficulty is one of the reasons why I prefer LucasArts over Sierra. In LucasArts games, there always seems to be a logical solution. The Sierra games sometimes require you to think illogically or learn from experience which very often gets annoying.

[Anonymous]

Agree with you there, for example in Larry 1 when you purchase wine from the liqour store. How am I suppose to know that the cab driver's gonna drink my wine and the game end ?

It's ok if it's a problem that you can solve after first failing, but in this case the game ends and you can only get past it by starting over.

[rallier]

Very good game overall.....and it's fairly easy just follow the info you have.... I hated the end though.......it's not a logical end.....not at all!!!!
what we have there is a retarded crossdresser. The clues i obtained were talking about a beautiful and sensational lady in red......even if that info comes from a 5 y.o. kid. My own prime suspect was yo moneys girlfriend, but i wanted to take a cigarette butt from the ashtray for analisys and wouldn't let me....Furthermore the way you find the murderer is by stupid means of luck........hey come on........do u expect me to believe that all the work done has to rely on a dog that drags you on a rope? (that's so silly!!!!!).......maybe sierra was very hasty in releasing the game......because i am sure they could think of something better than that......extremely disappointing....only the shoe directed me to a thought of the killer not being a woman.
But if you remember at the beginning it said: ur killer has transportation
I can't see how a retard could obtain a driving license and learn driving on his own. Furthermore.......what was his assosiation with the rest of the victims? something is a miss!!!!!!!!!

[marius]

:( I started playing PQ 4 and I have a problem. After talking to Mrs. Garcia about her dead son, I read the memo about Hickman's funeral and I go to his house, where (according to the walktrough) I should speak to his wife then automatically go to the bar. Instead, I arrive at Hickman's house, I knock, but I receicve a message, saying nobody's home at this time. What should I do?

[Bort]

I haven't played PQ4 yet. I'm downloading it as I read these posts. A suggestion for Hickman's that you might get some entertainment out of and might work:
What would a cop do?
He'd leave and goof off. Driving around periodically going by the house to see if anyone was there, and periodically stopping to knock again.

Get some dunkin blownuts and go back! :w00t:

[Bort]

Downloaded, installed. Is it taking anyone else an hour to step into, and out of the elevator? It doesn't freeze or lock up but...just sits there. I can move the cursor and the music plays but it stalls. Is this happening to anyone else? Anyone know the solution? I'm thinking maybe a defrag might help but my drive isn't that badly fragmented.
Maybe there's a patch or something?
I've left and let it run while I was gone for an hour while this has happened, the program is responding and all other processes not needed are closed. When I came back from my outting I was finally able to choose a floor. I got to the floor I was going to and had to wait another half hour until I could do anything else. Anyone?

[gdp2000]

Originally posted by olzen@Jun 28 2004, 08:15 AM
The difficulty is one of the reasons why I prefer LucasArts over Sierra. In LucasArts games, there always seems to be a logical solution. The Sierra games sometimes require you to think illogically or learn from experience which very often gets annoying.
Is there a Lucas Arts game game where you could die, too? Don't remember one. Wait, except Idiana Jones 3 in some situations and fights and in 4 only in fights. Never play The Dig. In Full Throttle you could die, too. But when you made a mistake, Ben said that it was wrong and you restarted before doing the last action.

c ya
gdp2k

[kosti]

:help:

What is wrong in pq4 game? When i play it always stuck in the elevators.
And i cant do nothing. Can you fix the game so it´s working good?

Thanx

[Phoenix]

Help me please...........with the game that is, mental help is beyond me. Anyhoo I have go to the part where I am in the firefight in the south streets. I shoot the bad dude twice with my shotty, however that's all I have managed to do. Is there an easier way to "control" or aim the shotgun.

ARRRRRRGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHH!! (Throws big temper tantrum) :pissed:

If anyone can offer any advice (regarding the game guys :bleh: ) it would be most appreciated.

Thanks

[Phoenix]

Hi Guys,

I got past mthat pesky firefight, but got stuck on an error. Anyhoo I searched the web and found this site....it has two patches for Police Quest 4. I downloaded both and so far the errors I had come across have been fixed. Hope it works for you.

http://www.pcgamesportal.de/index.php?site=patc&id=P


GOOD LUCK !!

[allesdsd]

Originally posted by Bort@Oct 2 2004, 09:09 AM
Downloaded, installed. Is it taking anyone else an hour to step into, and out of the elevator? It doesn't freeze or lock up but...just sits there. I can move the cursor and the music plays but it stalls. Is this happening to anyone else? Anyone know the solution? I'm thinking maybe a defrag might help but my drive isn't that badly fragmented.
Maybe there's a patch or something?
I've left and let it run while I was gone for an hour while this has happened, the program is responding and all other processes not needed are closed. When I came back from my outting I was finally able to choose a floor. I got to the floor I was going to and had to wait another half hour until I could do anything else. Anyone?
the game is always chrashing i cant save so if anyone knows which poroblems there could be with the game so please post here
thanks
i have win2000 pent3 etc..

[pachoo]

Not to be nitpicky, but the review states that the game is based on the fictional town of Lytton. Actually this game is based on the city of Los Angeles with locations that exist in real life.

[bill]

my introduction won't work, is that normal?

also, can I fix it?

[Morpheus]

It's been a while since I played this, did anyone manage to pick up on the killer's actual motive? Was there any reason to Hick's murder, or was he randomly pricking people in the movie theatre, then torturing and killing them because he was simply deranged?

[Guest]

I downloaded and unloaded the archive how do i install I clicked on the install file but it keeps asking for disk??????


please help!!!

[vtms]

I play the game in dos-box...and it is terribly slow...what might be the problem...changing the game speed in the game does not the trick:S?

[Guido]

The PQ4 talkie is much better. The only problem is that the video file is 400mbs

[Guest]

I mean audio

[Bernie_1977]

Does anyone know where to get the audio file? I have dsl so 400mb doesn't worry me. Gotta have the speech if ya can.

[nea caisa]

Originally posted by Dream@Jun 7 2004, 04:14 PM
Help!

I am stuck right from beginning, I can not leave, he tells me all the time I did not finished why I came in there.

I did: Examined both bodies, noted both bodies and graffiti, talked with all the policemen, and these two black guys watching the scene.

What more should I do?
Police Quest 4 Walkthrough

HINTS FOR POLICE QUEST 4



Police Quest 4: Open Season


1 ... The Murder Scene

Problem:
What do I do at the murder scene in the alley?


Hint:
Talk to everyone at the murder scene. Click the eye icon
on the slain police
officer's body. In the close-up view, click your notebook
on the body and the
cigarette lying on the ground. Exit the close-up view of
the body and click
your notebook on the graffiti on the wall of the
convenience store. Use your
car keys to unlock your car's trunk. Pick up the homicide
kit. Click the eye
icon on the body of Bob Hickman. Click the chalk from the
homicide kit on the
cigarette and the body. Exit the close-up view. Open the
dumpster and click
your notebook on the body inside. Talk to Nobles about the body.

Problem:
I've marked and notated all the evidence, why is everyone just standing around?


Hint:
In the close-up view of the slain officer, make sure
you have clicked the
notebook and the chalk on the body and the cigarette.
Also click the notebook
on the graffiti on the wall and the body in the dumpster.
After you have marked
and notated everything, talk to Julie Chester until
she photographs and
collects all the evidence.



2 ... Monday

Problem:
What should I do in the office in the morning?


Hint:
Talk to Hal Bottoms. Look at your desk. Click the hand icon
on the memo in your
in basket. Open the left hand drawer and remove the
photograph. Open the right
hand drawer and pick up a 3.14 Follow Up form. In your
inventory, click your
notebook on the 3.14 Form. Still in the inventory, click
the eye icon on the
photograph. Remember the password written on the
photograph. Give the 3.14 Form
and the crime scene report to Hal. Click the hand icon on
the computer in the
back of the office. The ID number is the same as your
badge number, 612. The
password is 'gunner'. Select 'Gang Information' and then
'Rude Boys Get Bail'
from the computer screen. When you are finished reading
about the gang, click
on CANCEL and then LOGOUT to exit the computer. Leave the
office and take the
elevator to the first floor.


Problem:
How do I get past the pushy reporter in front of Parker Center?


Hint:
There is no graceful way out of this situation. After you have heard enough,
click the hand icon on the reporter.


Problem:
What should I do at the L.A. County Morgue?


Hint:
Show Sherry your badge. Talk to Russ, the Coroner's
assistant. Talk to Sam
Nobles, the Coroner. Click your notebook on Bob
Hickman's body. Before you
leave, take the personal belongings of Bob Hickman and
Bobby Washington from
the counter in the room where you talked to Russ. Return
the personal items to
the grieving families.


Problem:
What should I do at Bob Hickman's house?


Hint:
Knock on the door. Talk to Valerie. Inside, give
Katherine Bob Hickman's
personal belongings. If you talk to Katherine about
Bob's drug and alcohol
problem, she will become upset. When she leaves the room,
talk to Valerie again
until she mentions the closet. Open the closet door and
take the bottle of
pills from the denim jacket.


Problem:
I need to brush up at the L.A. Police Academy target range.


Hint:
Take the buff colored 13.5.1 form from the counter at the L.A. Police Academy
Target Range. Give the form to Bert. Take the wallet from
inventory and click
it on Bert. Pick up the box of ammo that Bert places on
the counter. Pick up
the head gear. Exit this screen to the right. In the
firing range screen, walk
forward. Take the head gear from inventory and click it
on John Carey. When
your gun is set to low ready, wait for a target to appear,
then quickly aim and
fire. When it is time to reload, open your inventory and
click the ammo on your
gun. When you are finished, drop the head gear off at the front counter.

Problem:
What should I do in South Central L.A.?


Hint:
From the scene of the previous night's murder, exit the
screen to the left. Go
inside the store and take an apple from the counter and
some glue from the
display rack on the right. Click your wallet on the
proprietor to pay. Outside,
walk 2 screens to the left. There are two kids standing
in front of a burned
out building. Show your badge to the kid who is standing
up. Talk to him until
he repeats himself. Click the hand icon on the door of the
burned out building.
Inside, click the hand icon on the bullet holes in the
cinder block wall. Use
the putty knife from the homicide kit to loosen the
slugs in all 16 bullet
holes. Click the plastic bags from the homicide kit on
each bullet hole. Exit
the close-up view of the wall. Leave this screen by
exiting to the left. You
should now be back at the scene of the previous
night's murder. Exit this
screen to the right. Show your badge to the little girl.
Question her. Give her
the apple you bought at the convenience store. Leave this
screen to the right.
Show Mrs. Washington your badge. Give her Bobby's
personal possessions.
Question her.


Problem:
The guard won't let me back into Parker Center!


Hint:
Take the Parker Center ID from inventory and click it on John Carey.

Problem:
I'm back at Parker Center, now what?
Hint:
Take the elevator to the basement level by pressing the 'B'
button. Walk to the
end of the hall and give Julie Chester the glue from the
Lucky Mart store and
the pills from Bob Hickman's closet. Take the elevator
to the fourth floor.
Walk to the end of the hall and talk to Teddy. Give him
the bullets from the
burned out building. Tell him they are for 'Shelf
Storage'. Take the elevator
to the third floor. Return to your office. When the phone
rings, answer it by
clicking the hand icon first on your desk and then on
the phone. Exit your
office and go to the first floor. Save your game!


Problem:
I keep getting killed in South Central!


Hint:
When trouble starts, crouch down beside your car by
clicking the walk icon next
to the rear door. Click the Kevlar vest that Katherine
Hickman gave you on John
Carey. Click the walk icon near the trunk of the car
twice. Take the car keys
from inventory and click them on the trunk. When the trunk
is open, click the
keys on the shotgun. Click the hand icon on the shotgun to
pick it up. Exit the
view of the trunk.


Problem:
How do I shoot the bad guys?


Hint:
Once you have taken the shotgun from the car's trunk,
open your inventory and
select the shotgun. Click it on the burned out building.
Now you can aim the
shotgun and click to fire. If you use all the shells, you
have one chance to
reload. You can reload by opening your inventory and
clicking the shells on the
shotgun. If you run out of shells, you can still load and use your Baretta.


3 ... Tuesday

Problem:
What should I do at my office in Parker Center?


Hint:
After talking to Lieutenant Block, talk to Hal Bottoms. Go
to your desk, take a
3.14 form from the right-hand drawer and click your
notebook on it in
inventory. Take the elevator to the 'B' level and pick up
your gun from SIDS.
Question Julie Chester.


Problem:
I'm at Yo Money's house, what now?


Hint:
Click your notebook on the body outline on the lawn.
Walk towards the house.
Search the bushes in front Yo Money's front door. You
will find a red shoe.
Pick it up. Knock on the front door and show your badge to
the bodyguard. Talk
to him. Inside, show the shoe to his Yo Money's
girlfriend. Talk to Yo Money
about his enemies.


Problem:
What should I do at the L.A. County Morgue?


Hint:
Talk to Sam Nobles about the body of the slain officer, Rene Garcia.

Problem:
What should I do when I return to Parker Center?


Hint:
Wear your Parker Center ID. Give the completed 3.14 form to
Hal. Click the hand
icon on the computer in the rear of the office. Enter
serial number 612 and the
password GUNNER. Select HATE CRIMES from the main menu.
Type in the name that
Yo Money mentioned: Walker. Click on CANCEL. Click on LOGOUT.


Problem:
I'm in South Central, what do I need here?


Hint:
Go to Mrs. Washington's house and question LaSondra about the lady she saw.

Problem:
I'm at Dennis Walker's house, now what?


Hint:
Knock on the door and when Dennis Walker answers, show
him your badge. Click
the talk icon on him. Inside Dennis Walker's apartment,
talk to him again.
Before you touch his radio, be sure to save your game!


Problem:
Help! I keep getting stabbed by Dennis Walker's girlfriend!

Hint:
Save your game. You must act quickly. Take the gun from your inventory and
click it on Dennis Walker's girlfriend. Select the talk
icon and click it on
her twice, once to make her freeze, and once to drop the
weapon. Once she is
kneeling with her hands on her head, immediately take
the handcuffs from
inventory and click them on her.


Problem:
I arrested Walker's girlfriend, now what?


Hint:
Return to Parker Center. Talk to Mrs. Garcia. Click the
hand icon on your desk.
Take the memo from your in-box. Inside your inventory,
click the eye icon on
the memo to read it. Go to the Hickman's house and talk to
Katherine. When you
leave the Hickman's house you will automatically go to the Short Stop bar.

Problem:
Do I need anything at the Short Stop bar?


Hint:
Take some pretzels from the bowl on the table. Talk to Sam and Julie.


4 ... Wednesday

Problem:
How do I avoid getting killed at City Hall?


Hint:
Save your game. Walk to the front. Respond to the
questions. When Dennis Walker
starts to attack you, quickly take the gun from your
inventory and click it on
him. Click the talk icon on Dennis Walker first to make
him freeze and second
to make him drop his weapon. When Dennis Walker is
kneeling with his hands on
his head, immediately take the handcuffs from your
inventory and click them on
him.


Problem:
What should I do at Parker Center?


Hint:
Talk to Hal Bottoms. Take a 3.14 form from your desk and
click the notebook on
it. Give the 3.14 form to Hal.


Problem:
How do I qualify at the L.A. Police Academy?


Hint:
Take a green form from the counter at the target range.
Give it to the officer
who works there. Pick up the box of ammo and the head
gear. Exit the screen to
the right. In the firing range screen, walk forward. Take
the head gear from
inventory and click it on John Carey. When you are ready
to qualify, take the
gun from inventory and click it on the view of the firing
range. When your gun
is set to low ready, wait for a target to appear. Quickly
aim and fire at the
targets. When it's time to reload, open your inventory
and click the ammo on
your gun. When you are finished give the head gear to Bert on the way out.

Problem:
What should I do at the L.A. County Morgue?


Hint:
Visit Sam and question him.
Hint:
Show your badge at the window to get the code for the day.
Talk to the yardman
to give him the code and question him about the patrol car.
Click the hand icon
on the patrol car. Take the newspaper clipping from the car
seat. Click the eye
icon on the newspaper clipping to read it.


Problem:
I'm at Griffith Park, what should I do?


Hint:
Give the dog the pretzels you picked up at the Short
Stop bar. If you don't
have the pretzels, you can go back to the bar and get them
by clicking the hand
icon on one of the bowls on the tables. After the dog
leaves Griffith Park,
walk to the tree with the yellow police banner around it.
In the close-up view,
click the hand icon on the disturbed dirt. Take the
plastic bags from the
homicide kit in inventory and click them on the bone that is revealed.

Problem:
What do I do with this bone?


Hint:
Question Sam about the bodies in the car. Give him the
bone you unearthed at
Griffith Park.


Problem:
What do I do at Hollywood and Vine?


Hint:
Question the man in front of Ragin' Records and the Bitty
Kitty Club. Enter the
Bitty Kitty Club. If the club is not open yet, you
need to look at the
newspaper clipping from the patrol car at the impound
lot. Inside the Bitty
Kitty, show your badge to Electra and question her. Show
her the shoe you found
at Yo Money's house. Question her about Barbie. Light her
cigarette with the
lighter that is on the bar. Leave the Bitty Kitty, and
pick up the mirror that
is laying on the street next to your car. Enter Ragin'
Records and question the
proprietor. Return to the Bitty Kitty, show your badge to
Barbie and question
her. Show her the shoe.


Problem:
Wednesday never ends. What did I miss?


Hint:
Go to the L.A. County Morgue. You should see a news team
questioning Sherry and
the day will end. If this doesn't happen, you have
missed something. Did you
get the newspaper clipping from the patrol car at the
Impound Lot? Did you look
at the clipping in your inventory? Did you go to the
Bitty Kitty and question
Electra and Barbie after showing them your badge? Did you
show them both the
shoe from Yo Money's house? Did you question the
proprietor of Ragin' Records
about the patrol car and the abandoned car? Did you give
the bone from Griffith
Park to the coroner?



5 ... Thursday

Problem:
What do I need to do at the L.A. County Morgue?


Hint:
Question Sam about the Skeletal Remains and John and Jane Doe.


Problem:
What should I do at Parker Center?


Hint:
Go to SIDS and question Julie Chester. In your office, fill
out a 3.14 form and
give it to Hal. Click on the door in the back of the
office to talk to
Lieutenant Block.


Problem:
What do I do at the Impound Lot?


Hint:
Click your badge on the Impound Lot window. Enter the lot
through the gate on
the right. Talk to the yardman to give him the code
word and then again to
question him about the car. Look at the car license plate
and write down the
number: E2BSY669.


Problem:
What do I do with the license plate number?


Hint:
Back in your office at Parker Center log in to the
computer. Select DMV. Enter
the license plate number E2BSY669. Select CANCEL and then
LOGOUT to exit the
computer.


Problem:
What should I do at the Social Services office?


Hint:
Show your badge to Nora. Question her. In Luella Parker's
office, click the eye
icon on the desk. Pick up the case files and the audio
tape. Leave Luella's
office and question Nora again. In inventory, click the
eye icon on the case
files and note the names.


Problem:
What do I do at Hollywood and Vine?


Hint:
Enter Ragin' Records and give the audio tape to the
proprietor. Click the eye
icon on the counter. Click the hand icon on a drumstick.
Take the drumstick
from the counter. Leave the record store and go next door
to the Bitty Kitty
Club. Question Barbie Cann about Luella Parker.


Problem:
What should I do at the 3rd Eye Theater?


Hint:
Click the hand icon on the ticket booth. Show your badge
to the man in the
booth. Talk to him. Click the hand icon on the theater
doors on the left to
enter the theater lobby. Question Mitchell Thurman about
Luella Parker. Drink
the tea he offers you. Enter the movie theater by clicking
the hand icon on the
doors to the right of the concession stand. After the dream
sequence, leave the
theater and go to South Central.


Problem:
What should I do I in South Central?


Hint:
Enter the burned out building and take the piece of rope from the boxes.

Problem:
How do I deal with this dog at Griffith Park?


Hint:
Click the rope you got from the burned out building on the dog.



6 ... The Alley and End Game

Problem:
I'm stuck in an alley.


Hint:
Click the hand icon on the homicide kit. Take the pry bar
and click it on the
double doors to the left.


Problem:
Help, I'm stuck in a really, really dark room!
Hint:
Take the flashlight from the homicide kit and click it on
the screen. Move the
flashlight beam around until you find a wooden door. Moving
the flashlight beam
near the edge of the screen will allow you to examine a
different wall. Take
the putty knife from the homicide kit and click it on the
wooden door. Click
the hand icon on the door to open it.


Problem:
How do I keep the dog from attacking me?


Hint:
Click the glue on the drumstick. Click the mirror
from your car on the
drumstick. You now have a makeshift periscope! Click this
device on the crack
in the door at the top of the stairs. When you see a
'coast is clear' message,
click the hand icon on the door to enter the kitchen. Open
the refrigerator to
make a shocking discovery.


Problem:
How do I get by the dog blocking the hallway?


Hint:
Give the dog the bottle of sedatives you got from Bob Hickman's closet.

Problem:
I'm in the room at the end of the hall. Where do I go from here?

Hint:
Open the closet. Click the hand icon on the rug in the closet. Click the hand
icon on the secret trap door. At the bottom of the
ladder, exit towards the
rear of the storage room. Note the woman in the theater
seats. Exit to the
theater lobby at the top of the screen. In the theater
lobby, there are three
soft drink cans on the display case. Take the one on the
right. In inventory,
click the hand icon on the can to reveal a skeleton key.
Return to the movie
theater and click the skeleton key on the door to the
right of the movie
screen. Use the flashlight from the homicide kit.


Problem:
How do I avoid being attacked by the psycho when I open the door?

Hint:
There is no way to avoid being attacked by the psycho.

Problem:
The dog won't let me get up from the living room floor!

Hint:
Pick up the ball and throw it out the window.


Problem:
How do I defeat the psycho?


Hint:
Take the can of hair spray from the medicine cabinet in the
bathroom. Return to
the refrigerator and take the cigarette lighter from the
corpse's mouth. Save
your game. Before you enter the room at the end of the
hall, click the lighter
on the hair spray to make a torch. Enter the room at the
end of the hall and
click the torch on the murderer.


*****THE END*****

[Playbahnosh]

I have some serious technical issues in PQ4. I can't get music nor sounds.
If I select any sound device in "install", when launch the game I get an error of audio.cpp:xxxx:xxx or something like that :blink:
I can only play with no sound at all.
The musics are defective too. The game simply crashes after a while, when music is enabled. DosBOX says something about fatal error in da driver screen(not the playing screen, the other).

HEEEEEEEELP! :help: :help:

[Guest_Mike]

The difference between the first three Police Quests and the fourth is that the fouth is based on former commissioner Daryl Gates stories (or something) and takes place in L.A., while the first three take place in the fictional Lytton and star Sonny Bonds. After No. 3 ended, so did the continuous story. Also, No. 4 was followed by some cool simulation-style S.W.A.T. games, which would be cool if offered here.

[DeathDude]

Yeah I remember reading about that, and how this game had a little controversy because of gates involvement, because of that incident in the 90's.

It'd be cool to have Swat games, but I imagine there's the size issue.

[Sebbe]

It freezes for me too, but i always save before entering the elevator. If it frezzes i exit and restart.

[Doc Adrian]

I generally like the Watts PQ series a bit better, though this one does have alot of its good points.

I do love the Sierra challenge, just get frustrated when I have to guess what to do based entirely on trial and error and not have some sort of hint. You either have to be lucky or restore alot if you play these unaided...and frustrating as it seems at least you feel really satisfied beating it without a walkthrough.

By the end I was pulling my hair out with this one trying to tie it together. I also would of been nervous being an obvious Mr Nice guy cop in the bad neighborhoods asking everyone if they saw anything unusual. LOL

[Steve]

PQ4: OPEN SEASON war ein Meilenstein in Sierras Game-History.
Es ist ein klasse gemachtes Spiel, das realitätsnah zeigt, wie das LAPD arbeitet.
Erstmals wurde auf die Story im fiktiven Lytton City verzichtet, und man arbeitete mit Dary F. Gates zusammen, dem ehemaligen Chief des Los Angeles Police Department.
Mir hat es Spaß gemacht, dieses Game zu spielen, und ich fühlte mich zeitweise als richtiger Detective. :Tom:

[A. J. Raffles]

Es wäre trotzdem nett, wenn du das nochmal auf Englisch wiederholen könntest.;)

[Kuno3x16]

i just bought the Police Quest Collectors thingy
and am using the DOSBox...
but for some reason i couldn't install the game because it keeps saying i ran out of environment space... so i copied the whole game into my HD and used DOSBox to run it but there's crappy sound... and no voice... =\...
help me anyone?? =)...

[zoomboy]

Yeah I have the collection too.
I can't get it to run in DOS with voice. I'm beginning to think that voice only works in windows but i'm not sure.

But when I try to run the file sierraw.exe it doesn't work

[dodginess]

Whether this helps anyone or not, you really need to run PQ4 in Windows mode to get the best out of it if you're installing it from the PQ Collection disks. The installer/setup procedure is particularly flaky anyway and I suspect that the games featured in the collection have been updated to make them more compatible with Windows 95 (and consequently less so with DOS). Anyone that's installed the collection version of PQ1 will know that the Alt-D cheat was removed, for example.

Another minus point from the collection (which I bought around 1998 I think) was that the manual didn't have all the codes you needed to play PQ1VGA and PQ2 properly - the locker code is missing for PQ1VGA and the names needed to complete the copy protection in PQ2 are missing - helpful! :) Anyone needing these details can probably find them in any of the normal walkthroughs, etc.

In case I've missed the point (not the first time) why is anyone running this in DOSBox anyway?

[A. J. Raffles]

Originally posted by dodginess@Jul 13 2005, 11:23 PM
In case I've missed the point (not the first time) why is anyone running this in DOSBox anyway?
Hmm, force of habit?;)

[zoomboy]

I can't get the collection to run in windows xp. Thats why I tried to run it in dos.
IS there any way to get this to run in XP? I don't want to make a dual boot with win98.

You're right that PQ4 in windows is the best way to experience this game.

I have the first release of the collection ("The 4 Most Wanted") and all of my manuals contained the proper information for the copyright info.

[Shifter]

Originally posted by zoomboy@Jul 15 2005, 04:10 AM
I can't get the collection to run in windows xp.* Thats why I tried to run it in dos.
IS there any way to get this to run in XP? I don't want to make a dual boot with win98.

You're right that PQ4 in windows is the best way to experience this game.

I have the first release of the collection ("The 4 Most Wanted") and all of my manuals contained the proper information for the copyright info.
I know I played this game a few months ago on my XP system.

Did you try using Dosbox?

Edit:
What kind of error are you getting?

I ran the install, chose accept, then ran the game (sierra.exe), and it ran fine with sound and all (in WinXP)_

[punch999]

the swat games were buggy as hell and have no use up here only 3 and 4 were good

[sam]

where can i download blue force?

[punch999]

YOU CANT!!!!!! warez warez OMG!!!!

[Sitedude]

Where are you guys downloading this? I don't see a link anywhere. I loved this game ever since i was 10 LOL. Hook me up :D

[Doc Adrian]

Sorry its ESA protected..can't get it here for the time being.

[RedHeadSebbe]

Originally posted by punch999@Aug 1 2005, 06:29 PM
the swat games were buggy as hell and have no use up here only 3 and 4 were good
I hope they will make a 5 in some years, it would be fun to see how it looks..

[matty]

ya no kidding where can i get this game . can soemone send it to me
or is there someone else i can get on on kaza or sometrhing i mean
i never really played it before but i do enjoy a good aventure game
i dunno why that guy posted up all the hints and secrets to the game
thats weak ! the whole point of adventures is to play abit take a brake
hang out with your friends work whatever and come back to it
if ur getting frustrated with thet part yer in maybe u should take a brake
but anyway any help would be apprechated thats the whole problom with games nowadays nowone takes the time to think and appcreate a good adventure
i guess thats why miriadids of endless shooter games and military fill up the
spaces of once creative and innovative games once where pretty sad.

[Sebatianos]

If you want it - buy it at e-bay. Anything else is illegal and people areound here WON'T help you with it!

[vtms]

PLEASE HELP ME! when i run the game in dosbox then it is very very slow....changeing the game speed in the game does not work....what should i do????

[A. J. Raffles]

Fiddle with the cycles in DOSBox, perhaps?

[inotoni]

PQ4 as a full photo-realistic game looked a bit wasted by today's standard. It's just shame all those resources didn't make into SVGA. I owned the CD n back then the VGA was quite satisfying. It is by far the most detailed detective game I ever played. Unfortunately the speech didn't come with texts making it hard for non-English speaker to comprehend. Overall it's a challenging game for serious fan.

Just an idea, with recent CSI popularity the game might be more profitable today. Back at the time, I'm not too crazy about the coroner's analysis for example.

[Guest]

I Need Help I Don't Know The Password and The user Name in The Computer There

[Doc Adrian]

612 and Gunner...Badge number and the name of photo

[RedHeadSebbe]

I´m gonna complain about the review..This game is not in Lytton at all :P This is plainly LAPD, as all the SWAT games they are in Los Angeles :D

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(dodginess @ Jul 14 2005, 01:23 AM) 131055</div>
Whether this helps anyone or not, you really need to run PQ4 in Windows mode to get the best out of it if you're installing it from the PQ Collection disks. The installer/setup procedure is particularly flaky anyway and I suspect that the games featured in the collection have been updated to make them more compatible with Windows 95 (and consequently less so with DOS). Anyone that's installed the collection version of PQ1 will know that the Alt-D cheat was removed, for example.

Another minus point from the collection (which I bought around 1998 I think) was that the manual didn't have all the codes you needed to play PQ1VGA and PQ2 properly - the locker code is missing for PQ1VGA and the names needed to complete the copy protection in PQ2 are missing - helpful! :) Anyone needing these details can probably find them in any of the normal walkthroughs, etc.

In case I've missed the point (not the first time) why is anyone running this in DOSBox anyway?
[/b]

In my collection manual you got both of the things....Or..The code is disguised as a newsarticle....The results of the football match = The locker code :D
And I know I`m a year late :D

[Judy Adams]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(rallier @ Aug 14 2004, 10:18 AM) 8728</div>
Very good game overall.....and it's fairly easy just follow the info you have.... I hated the end though.......it's not a logical end.....not at all!!!!
what we have there is a retarded crossdresser. The clues i obtained were talking about a beautiful and sensational lady in red......even if that info comes from a 5 y.o. kid. My own prime suspect was yo moneys girlfriend, but i wanted to take a cigarette behind from the ashtray for analisys and wouldn't let me....Furthermore the way you find the murderer is by stupid means of luck........hey come on........do u expect me to believe that all the work done has to rely on a dog that drags you on a rope? (that's so silly!!!!!).......maybe sierra was very hasty in releasing the game......because i am sure they could think of something better than that......extremely disappointing....only the shoe directed me to a thought of the killer not being a woman.
But if you remember at the beginning it said: ur killer has transportation
I can't see how a retard could obtain a driving license and learn driving on his own. Furthermore.......what was his assosiation with the rest of the victims? something is a miss!!!!!!!!!
[/b]

You are ABSOLUTELY correct in your assesment of the game. It was SO GOOD up until the end where it just fell apart. Nothing made sense. Who was the GORGEOUS HONKIN WOMAN IN RED? The cross-dressing cop? Certainly not the chubby retarded guy. How did the retarded guy pick his victims? I get, maybe, the cops - but why the young boy? Why the two Asian people? Who did the head belong to? What was the motivation for the killings. God - they should have had a 15-minute cutscene at the end to explain it all. I FELT SO LET DOWN. If anyone has some reasonable explanation of this game ending, please email me at !!!VREEEM!!.

Thanks.

Edit: e-mail removed.

[Krustacean]

Wow this is the only one I didn't finish and that is really dissapointing to read for a PQ ending.

[BITEMYASS]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Sebatianos @ Oct 3 2005, 05:32 PM) 164597</div>
If you want it - buy it at e-bay. Anything else is illegal and people areound here WON'T help you with it!
[/b]

You seem like a self righteous little prick doncha? I myself have a hard time finding these types of games in stores because no one carrys them. The only way to find games like that is to pirate them. so go *meep* your hat you little muck!

[A. J. Raffles]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(BITEMYASS @ Feb 18 2007, 03:55 AM) 279801</div>
You seem like a self righteous little prick doncha? I myself have a hard time finding these types of games in stores because no one carrys them. The only way to find games like that is to pirate them. so go *meep* your hat you little muck!
[/b]
1. No need to be rude, especially if the post you're quoting is one and a half years old.
2. As a matter of fact, the game is extremely easy to find without having to resort to pirating. Here you go: link (http://store.vugames.com/product.asp?product%5Fid=646767)

[The Fifth Horseman]

You seem like a self righteous little prick doncha? I myself have a hard time finding these types of games in stores because no one carrys them. The only way to find games like that is to pirate them. so go *meep* your hat you little muck![/b]
Not only are you advocating use of warez, but also flaming another user.
As the moderator of this forum I have to inform you that further cases of such behavior will not be tolerated.
If you try that again, your IP adress may be blocked from accessing the forum.

[Guest_Ryan_*]

I bought this game probably about 12 years ago. Good game, I lost my CD, but have been able to find abandonware copies of the old ones. I remember the copy I owned had the voice over on it, but I am unable to find that. It definitely is more humorous to hear the sarcastic comments about half the things in the game.

Also, I never though about how little sense the end makes. All of the evidence you gather has absoleutly nothing to do with finding the killer. You lasso a stupid German Sheppard and it drags you to a doggie door. Then for some reason, your charachter decides that the dog must know something so he follows it in to an alley-side door. Where you sneak around until you get jumped by a tranny. The you wake up later unarmed, and you somehow find hairspray and a lighter that kills the psycho. Woohoo.

Good game though, PQ3 was also good, but the problems there were the driving. It was dang near impossible to drive anywhere in the game. PQ2 was good! and the 2 versions of the first were also good.

I have bought ever single game in this series. I own, PQ1, 2, 3 and 4. I own swat, swat 2, swat 3, swat 4 and the Stetchkov syndicate (swat 4 expansion).

[Guest_Ryan_*]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(rallier @ Aug 14 2004, 10:18 AM) 8728</div>
Very good game overall.....and it's fairly easy just follow the info you have.... I hated the end though.......it's not a logical end.....not at all!!!!
what we have there is a retarded crossdresser. The clues i obtained were talking about a beautiful and sensational lady in red......even if that info comes from a 5 y.o. kid. My own prime suspect was yo moneys girlfriend, but i wanted to take a cigarette behind from the ashtray for analisys and wouldn't let me....Furthermore the way you find the murderer is by stupid means of luck........hey come on........do u expect me to believe that all the work done has to rely on a dog that drags you on a rope? (that's so silly!!!!!).......maybe sierra was very hasty in releasing the game......because i am sure they could think of something better than that......extremely disappointing....only the shoe directed me to a thought of the killer not being a woman.

But if you remember at the beginning it said: ur killer has transportation
I can't see how a retard could obtain a driving license and learn driving on his own. Furthermore.......what was his assosiation with the rest of the victims? something is a miss!!!!!!!!!
[/b]


Well, actually I believe the way the ending is justified is that out of the 5 murders they all point to different things. The very beginning points to it being a woman that smokes because of cigarette lipstick. The second dead cop scene you find a red shoe, yet again a woman. #3 you find out that there is a stray dog interested in the bodies and that it was the same killer at that murder scene, the last 2 people, one of them is the social worker for the woman who owns the strip bar and the mentally unstable (not retarded) owner of the theater.

If you paid attention the guy who owns the theater mother was murdered when he was young and he went nuts (Ie. the stuttering and stuff). Also, if you pay attention you read/hear him tell you that he owns a dog that someone claims he didn't feed and take care of properly (the stray at the park). What ends up happening is you run out of leads and you figure you should try to see wtf the dog is all about. You lasso him and you get drug to the theaters back alley. You go in, find a head in the fridge and realize that the crazy guy is the crossdressing murderer.

The ending wasn't like.. all this evidence here.... bam... dog.. rope... end. Thats a gross simplification. If you pay attention it really makes some sense.

Also, like all the people in the game say this woman is huge... Moneys girlfriend wasn't.

To answer the last bit... he had transportation because he wasn't retarded.
His association with the rest of his victims was; #1 the last victim was his social worker, the second cop was a regular at the strip club which another one of his social workers clients owned, I guess the 2 knew each other. Don't quite get the 1st cop, could be that he was also a regular the club, LOL. Then the one at the park was probably a random pick from the theater like the woman being tortured in the last scene when you kill the murderer, or at least, the game doesn't quite cover them. The second body found in the car with his social worker... well that one's got me, maybe yet another random movie theater kidnap.

Questions? I hope this helps.

[Guest]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Judy Adams @ Oct 18 2006, 04:35 PM) 261990</div>
You are ABSOLUTELY correct in your assesment of the game. It was SO GOOD up until the end where it just fell apart. Nothing made sense. Who was the GORGEOUS HONKIN WOMAN IN RED? The cross-dressing cop? Certainly not the chubby retarded guy. How did the retarded guy pick his victims? I get, maybe, the cops - but why the young boy? Why the two Asian people? Who did the head belong to? What was the motivation for the killings. God - they should have had a 15-minute cutscene at the end to explain it all. I FELT SO LET DOWN. If anyone has some reasonable explanation of this game ending, please email me at !!!VREEEM!!.

Thanks.
[/b]

OMG!! did you guys play the game or what? The young boy wasn't killed by the serial killer, he was killed by the local gang. The guy in the very beginning of the game who is standing against the red fence "Ragtop Spiff). He killed the boy. They straight up tell you that in the game... if you missed it, then you, without a doubt, weren't paying attention so the fact that you are confused is not surprising to me.

I hope that helps too, check my other post.

[Tammy]

didn't this site used to allow people to download police quest....i used to have the collection series of this but i misplaced the cd....all good games but i never did like the swat games they included in the collection

[The Fifth Horseman]

didn't this site used to allow people to download police quest...[/b]
It did. Now it isn't allowed to.

[Guest]

i have the game, and i tried installing it to my computer but it doesnt work :[ can anyone help me?

[_r.u.s.s.]

well, you need to get dosbox, cause the game is running under dos and you, i guess, on win xp. so download dosbox from the site and type 'intro'. or follow one of tutorials on the site

[Grand Dad]

It's funny how when we play a game we like it then having finshed it by hook or by crook we start finding faults with. Oh! I am not against justified criticism or appreciation. For example I like PQ2 best of the four of the series I have, and I did see some illogical occurances, but the I play games for their own sake. I have yet to see any game without some fault or the other. But then I am a diehart who started gaming since first PC became available and we had glorious CGA and then CGA and used 5.25" bootable floppies, no DOS or Windows :).

[Blah]

I can't seem to get into Hickman's house after getting the memo also...his freakin' wife is not home! :wallbash:

[boycrazie111]

:( I even bought the CD and everything. I have windows XP and it's saying I need windows 98 or something of the sort, or to use DOS. How???

[dosraider]

Dosbox?

A beginner's guide to DOSBox (http://www.abandonia.com/vbullet/showthread.php?t=14406)

[boycrazie111]

yeah how do you figure that out? I tried to follow directions on this site to install DOSBOX, but once I got to the configuration portion, or as titled "basic DOS commands," the only thing that would show up was the Z drive, not E as needed

this is where I found the directions
http://www.abandonia.com/node/23854

[_r.u.s.s.]

to change drive you need to type in the letter of the drive floowed by colon..

so E:

[The Fifth Horseman]

Read the guide Dosraider linked to. It should explain some things.

[jdmgtp]

how come I can't download this game?

[_r.u.s.s.]

cause it's protected by the copyright owners

[StakesMan]

hey guys!
just wanted to let you know you got mistake in your review
it's not Lyttton anymore it's LA and you play LAPD homicide detective

[_r.u.s.s.]

allright, thanks!
changed it