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This is actually a really interesting point. Though IMO if it were to be seen that way, it would need to explicitly and directly engage with the problematic sides of US policing today - militarization, use of force, instititionalized racism, overpolicing, lack of training, corruption, resources allocated to weapons and tactical gear rather than community support and outreach, lack of accountability, the list goes on. It would need to raise those issues as real issues and make players try to avoid them, work around them, counteract them if possible. If it didn't engage with those, but instead tried to recruit "friendly" or non-authoritarian people into the police just by portraying it as a first responder/community outreach/helping people type of job, that would likely backfire severely once anyone swayed by that messaging actually tried joining an actual police force - and it would still serve as propaganda, unintentional or not.On the one hand my first response was, oh this is going down like a lead balloon. But on the other hand who do we replace all the all the corrupt, racist, sexist, thug police that are in-place, they have to come from somewhere. This could be seen as an indirect recruitment drive or sorts?
That's true - and it's a bit odd, really, with a German developer making a "police simulator" set in the US. But also understandable in terms of sales potential - the US is a massive gaming market, and rather unlikely to be interested in a Berlinerpolizeisimulator. Still kind of odd to land on that game though - and with them being located that far away, it raises the question of who they have consulted with to make the game's setting and action believable. If they've consulted with US police forces or anyone closely tied to them, especially if those are the only groups consulted, then that only underscores the copaganda angle, sadly.Digging a little deaper, Aesir Interactive and Astragon (Farm simulator) are based in München, Bayern, Germany. Where (someone correct if im wrong) the police aren't nearly as bad as they are in other countries.