Police Quest: Open Season (1993)
Police Quest: Open Season is a 1993 point-and-click video game made by Sierra On-Line.
The fourth Police Quest drops the Lytton setting and Sonny Bonds for the streets of Los Angeles, where LAPD detective John Carey works a murder case that opens with the death of a colleague. Designed with input from former LAPD chief Daryl Gates, Open Season trades the earlier games' procedural politeness for grime and dread: digitized actors, photographed backdrops, and a mood that sits heavy. You work the crime scenes, run the leads, and follow the trail through a city that never lets up. Bleak, methodical, and unafraid of ugliness.
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What is Police Quest: Open Season about?
The fourth Police Quest drops the Lytton setting and Sonny Bonds for the streets of Los Angeles, where LAPD detective John Carey works a murder case that opens with the death of a colleague. Designed with input from former LAPD chief Daryl Gates, Open Season trades the earlier games' procedural politeness for grime and dread: digitized actors, photographed backdrops, and a mood that sits heavy. You work the crime scenes, run the leads, and follow the trail through a city that never lets up. Bleak, methodical, and unafraid of ugliness.
When was Police Quest: Open Season released?
Police Quest: Open Season was released on 31 December 1993.
Who made Police Quest: Open Season?
Police Quest: Open Season was made by Sierra On-Line.
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A few thoughts on Police Quest: Open Season
If the serial-killer manhunt is the draw, Copycat Killer follows investigators through a grim, patient hunt with the same procedural dread. The Cell pushes further into the mind of a killer, though it swaps police process for surreal, disturbing imagery.
The Police Quest saga from the beginning
Open Season is the darkest of the run, a serial-killer hunt through Los Angeles designed by Daryl Gates. If it hooked you, the earlier cases with Sonny Bonds share the same demand that you work like a real officer instead of a movie cop.
Dark procedurals about hunting a killer
Open Season trades small-town busts for a grim LA manhunt with a body count. These crime dramas match that heavier tone, following investigators through ugly cases that grind forward on evidence and dread rather than spectacle.