Anyway, the basics. Graphics are okay. The engine is 3D, but there are few atmospheric effects, and everything looks a bit chunky. That's fine. That I can forgive from a small developer. What I can't forgive is the abysmal scripting and voice acting. Yes, MiST Land is a Russian dev house, but they've had a few titles come out in English-speaking countries. Heck, they obviously got English speakers to do the voiceovers. Did none of them think, This is an awfully bad translation and jot down some notes to correct the grammar? Did nobody at MiST Land think to throw a few hundred bucks at any native English speaker on the Internet for clean-up duty? Apparently not. The dialogue is almost literally painful.

All of this said, I was since when I wrote that I want MiST Land to do well. There are bursts of promise here and there, though COPS 2170 is definitely a large step backward from Paradise Cracked. Also, to any otherwise unoccupied devs out there, it's time we had another real police game. Until then, I'll be firing up some games from the good old days.