Top 10 Best Police Games Where You're a Police Officer (Best Cop Games)

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Updated:
19 May 2019

What Are The Best Police Games? 

Become a police officer and take down criminals in the best cop games.

10. Battlefield Hardline

Battlefield Hardline Gameplay

In Battlefield Hardline you are a police officer taking down criminals. You are the law.

You have various ways to pursue those criminals and arrest them. The most fun factors about this game is that it’s different than every other Battlefield game.

You can choose to be stealthy or loud, lethal or non-lethal, giving you various ways you can choose to handle sticky situations.

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Apprehend the criminals and make the arrest clean or…less clean. Your Choice.

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Customize your loadout to defeat everybody who opposes you!

9. Driver: San Francisco

In Driver: San Francisco you play as an undercover cop, John Tanner, who was in a car crash early in the game.

This car crash gives him an ability known as, “shifting” this newfound ability lets you take control of other driving citizens for a brief amount of time.

You can bend the rules of driving into your favor. Tanner is tracking down Charles Jericho, a jail-broken criminal who  put Tanner in a coma in the beginning of the game, unintentionally giving Tanner his “shifting” ability.

Using the “shifting” ability is very fun, but hard to get the hang of. Once you understand it, you can use it to your advantage to do things like possess a vehicle and use it to block your opponents therefore letting you get ahead of them.

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Drive as if you were in the game yourself, but with NO consequences.

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Tanner and his friend Tobias Jones watch each other’s back.

8. Sleeping Dogs

Sleeping Dogs Gameplay

You play Sleeping Dogs as Wei Shen, an undercover cop from America, posing as a member of the triad. His mission is to stop the gangs from getting out of hand and taking over the city.

There are many ways to take out enemies using various environmental objects or the martial arts fight style that Wei Shen knows. The game is pretty gruesome, but that only adds to the fun!

 

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Chase down Hong Kong’s police for fun. Some think of it as attacking “Brothers in Blue.”

7. Beat Cop

In Beat Cop you are Kelly the police officer. Kelly lost his detective badge because of a shootout at a senator’s mansion and now has 21 days to clear his name in order to become a detective again. Because of this, every day Kelly will begin at the police station and then start his day as a patrol duty officer writing parking tickets and collecting alimony payments. This 2D game has racial slurs in the townspeople dialects. It’s supposed to be funny, but no one thinks it is.

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This is a part of Kelly’s corner where he spends his days writing parking tickets.

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Kelly is this gentleman right here. He loves his daily donut stereotype and he lives up to it by eating donuts in Beat Cop.

6. Ready or Not 

Ready or Not is a game where you are a S.W.A.T. member taking down criminals. This is a very intense game which puts you in dangerous situations where you must figure out how to take down enemies and arrest them.

Being in S.W.A.T. makes it more fun since you have team members watching your back. This game is a FPS game with realistic characteristics.

  

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Be tactical as a team and watch each other’s back.

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These are team members. Each one of them has their own unique loadouts.

5. L. A. Noire

LA Noire Gameplay

You are set in 1948 Los Angles as a detective solving crimes. Solving crimes successfully gives you new clues to new cases and eventually you begin to solve the criminal enterprise of LA in 1948.

Each case is unique and complex to solve. You must think critically and work on impulse decisions in hostile situations. Playing this game immerses you in the life of a cop and the intense cases that they take on.

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Work to solve murder mysteries and catch the criminals in Los Angeles.

 

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Analyze every object at the crime scene because anything can help you solve the case.

4. Door Kickers

Door Kickers is a game where you take control of a S.W.A.T. team and call the shots from above, strategizing and deciding what the best plan of action is for your team to purse the criminals inside the building.

To gather all the best equipment needed to succeed, you must level up your team. Each person in your team has a different loadout, giving many different options on what gun they use and what type of protection they have, etc.

There are many possibilities and it is awesome that you are in charge of it all. This game is for you if you love to strategize and be tactical.

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This is the loadout screen for one of your team members. As you can see there are many options for you to choose.

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This is the 3rd person POV that you will be playing from.

3. Keep the Peace

Keep the Peace Gameplay

Keep the Peace is not released and does not have a release date yet Keep the police is a strategy command game where you pose as the chief of police.

Crime in your city is raging and, as the title states, you have to maintain the peace. You will be playing in a 3rd person POV and manage your patrol units to take down criminals.

This game you can either be tactical or you can hit the criminals with everything you’ve got. You must know that your officers are underequipped and stressed with the crime being out of control. Make smart decisions and try to keep the peace.

 

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This is your city and you have to protect it the best you can with smart decisions and critical thinking.

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Riots can get out of control. Are you able to maintain the people and enforce some damage control?

2. This Is The Police

This Is The Police is a storyline-based game. The city’s biggest crime boss has left a message on your desk at the police station, threatening you to ignore police calls and let innocents be harmed.

You play as Jack Boyd and you only have 180 days to reduce your city’s crime rate. If you do not clean up the streets in 180 days, you will be fired and replaced.

The city’s crime boss threatens to kill you unless you ignore your duties, but you will be fired if you don’t clean up the streets in 180 days. What do you do?

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This Is The Police is a cartoon police game where you follow along with the story.

 

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Choose what cases you want to take on.

1. Max Payne 3

Max Payne 3 is an ongoing series about a man who chooses to focus on the past and not what is going on around him in the present day because he lost his wife and child. He has a horrific wound that he elects to never let fully heal since it helps him stay in the past.

The fun factors of this game are the different types of weapons that you can use and the complex story. The story is not linear and interesting at the same.

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Max Payne is a hardcore, action-packed, and thrilling game.

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Use Max Payne’s intense combat skills to take down enemies.

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