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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.

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

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.

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?? =)...

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?