

Each enemy has a small icon marking their position and only take a few shots to defeat, but there are often a large amount of them. The gunplay itself is serviceable, but nothing to write home about.

Occasionally during an inspection your outpost will be attacked by bands of rebels, and the game quickly shifts from a dry simulation game into a first-person shooter. This is where Crazy Rocks’ vision begins to truly deviate from their inspiration. I am going to inspect so many tires with this bad boy. I had expected this to be the core gameplay loop: check papers, search vehicles for contraband, and do deliveries.Īnd then they gave me a gun. The player must find where the goods are hidden and dismantle those sections of the car before the contraband bursts out like candy a villainous pinata to for the player to collect, store, and deliver to the local police station while you drive the smuggler to a local quarry to serve out their sentence. The first twist to the gameplay is the titular contraband the player will receive several clues about different smugglers that will attempt to trick you and sneak their dastardly goods in, ranging from a few packs of cigarettes to truly prodigious amounts of weaponry or cocaine. Can I see your Passport, License, Cargo Manifest, and the receipts from your last three shopping trips, please?
CONTRABAND POLICE DRIVER
Is the name on your ID Sokolov, but the name on your passport is Sokolev? Denied, go away! Did that driver shave his beard without updating his photo? Sorry buddy, get that fixed and try again. The gameplay loop will be immediately familiar to anyone who has played Papers, Please you must examine an ever-growing pile of legal documents searching for any inconsistencies or expirations. You are the new commander of an outpost tasked with watching the border and inspecting the documents of anyone attempting to enter the fictional Eastern European nation of Acaristan in 1981. Contraband Police is a new simulation game from Crazy Rocks that pushes the boundaries of its genre.
