He describes a past in-depth roleplay scenario, where uniformed police arriving at the scene of a crime handed over to other gamers taking on the role of detectives from the Criminal Investigation Department (CID).

Read more: These are the best games of 2018 He says some of the details they learned early on from YouTube videos are a little dated, but it is otherwise “not a million miles away”. In real life, Barker is a response officer for the Metropolitan Police and has taken over as a sort of informal advisor to modders, hearing out their questions about the Met’s kit and processes. “The level of detail people get into in communities is quite unbelievable,” says a player who gave his name as Barker and plays in the Westminster Roleplay Community as BluePlodder. He says his hobby of photographing vehicles progressed naturally into 3D modelling them for games. Albo and his friends aim to replicate real-world policing procedures as closely as possible when they play, for example following the real-world “GOWISELY” codes to carry out stop-and-search procedures and the College of Policing’s pursuits policy for responsible car chases.Īway from his keyboard, Matthew is part of the expansive British emergency service vehicles “spotters” community, who enjoy observing and photographing emergency vehicles (like trainspotters with trains). In these situations, some gamers play as police while others role-play criminals and victims. “When playing in a multiplayer environment, you can scale up the realism as you're interacting with other real people,” he says.

But Albo says that it is playing online, in multiplayer scenarios, that gamers have taken modded roleplay to the next level. He also runs a YouTube channel that specialises in recreating real-life policing scenarios in the game and has 27,000 subscribers.Īnyone can download LSPDFR mods and play on basic single player missions, which involve driving around the city, pulling over speeding drivers and deploying tools such as custom two-way radios, breathalysers and speed-guns.

Albo estimates he has spent 4,000 hours making emergency service mods.

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