The Shield game for Europe

By Tom Bramwell Published 26 April, 2007

TV show title to hit PS2 and PC.

Empire Interactive has signed up Point of View's adaptation of amusingly dark and silly US TV police import The Shield for release in Europe.

Already out in the US, our CI suggests it's going to be fired across on PS2 and PC in the first half of 2007, The Shield videogame is set up as a sort of "lost episode", created in collaboration with some of the writers and actors on the series itself.

It's a third-person action game built around the antics of the show's Strike Team, led by intense bald man Vic Mackey, who try and police the streets of the fictional Farmington district of Los Angeles without getting too bogged down in procedure. To put it mildly.

It'll be interesting to see how Point of View's adapted the content, certainly, unless Metacritic is to be trusted, in which case it could be truly horrible to see.

Either way, we'll be taking a look nearer release, and you can already do that thanks to our hastily assembled line-up of screenshots.

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Comments (18) Latest comment 5 years ago

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  • trevd72 #1 5 years ago

    one of the best things on TV and would have made a kick ass GTA clone with a twist.

    I think the metacritic rating is correct so nothing to get excited about...except season 6 has just started in america.

  • Stilicho #2 5 years ago

    "Amusingly dark and silly"

    Child molestation, homosexual rape, and murder are just some of the issues tackled by this show (which is far and away better than most of the crap produced by UK television). To find it amusingly dark and silly speaks volumes.

  • keyboardmonkey #3 5 years ago

    Can we have a Life on Mars game please!

  • Blerk #4 5 years ago

    Apparently this is a huge sack of shit.

  • Kiigan #5 5 years ago

    The Shield isn't amusing or silly. It is however, great television. We're up to episode 5 now in season 6. It isn't as good as The Wire, but it makes for a better videogame probably :)

    Slightly worried that the game might suck... after the last one (Sammy?) - wait, is this the same one? Those screenshots sure look familiar (and are terrible).
    Edited by 1 at 26/04/07 @ 09:26

  • Machiavel #6 5 years ago

    "Amusingly dark and silly" sounds about right - one wouldn't excuse 24 from being a 'bit silly' just because they 'deal' with issues of international terrorism, human rights and gratuitous torture.

  • dudefella #7 5 years ago

    I hope they're calling the game amusingly dark and silly because if that's about the show... hoo boy. It probably has the best, most realistic writing I've ever encountered in television. The characters are absolutely amazing. It's intense. There is absolutely nothing silly about it.

  • trevd72 #8 5 years ago

    Vic would 'ave Grant and Phil any day.

  • WriterUK #9 5 years ago

    Er, saw this at like E3 2005 I think...? Looked pretty crap then.

  • Stilicho #10 5 years ago

    Amuse = entertain in an enjoyable or cheerful manner.

  • WrongShui #11 5 years ago

    Stilcho, its a great show but it's totally OTT, not some gritty real life crime show.

  • dudefella #12 5 years ago

    I disagree. What about it is over the top? I find it almost frighteningly realistic.

  • Stilicho #13 5 years ago

    Kato

    While you're browsing through that dictionary, look up the spelling of description.

  • busboy33 #14 5 years ago

    "amusingly dark and silly" . . .

    Before I go on a Shield fanboy rant, as an aside, I don't remember the reiew source but the game is apparently pure crap. Haven't played it, but that was the review I got.

    Now, back to the fanboy rant. Vic would break something on you for that! I have to admit, of all the descriptions I've heard for the show, no one has ever called it "amusingly dark and silly." So far, I'm not a fan of the camerawork in the new season as compared to the older seasons, but to think its "silly," "amusing," or "over the top" blows my mind.

    If this comes down to whether or not you think cops torture or beat suspects to death, then we will just have to disagree. I am firmly in the "hell yes" category, while I presume you are in the "of course not, silly goose!" camp. I'll agree the concentration of people snapping at The Barn may be statistically unlikely, but the Faustian dramas and tribulations they go through are as real and cold as a punch in the gut. Dutch trying to get into the mind of a serial killer, Cavanaugh obsessing over the Strike Team, Shane and Lem (DEAR GOD who does he tell next week?!?!), it never stops. No show (besides this) has ever left me morally uncomfortable, week after week. The Shield's been doing it for years.

    Wrong forum for the rant, I know. My apologies for wasting bandwith. Seriously, if you've never seen it, rent Season 1 and 2 on your next movie night. Puts all other cop dramas to shame.

  • skillian #15 5 years ago

    The game, I'm sure, is rubbish, but the show is one of the best on TV.

    That first line was cold man, cold.

  • Vice.Destroyer #16 5 years ago

    to second busboy33, I agree with him. The Shield is one of the best shows on the box.It's a shame that it only gets shown on 5ive, and even then only at 'Videoplus-friendly' 2 in the morning. If you have never seen it, buy it from HMv or somewhere. There is something strangely compelling about a show where the main character feels nothing about robbing drug dealers at gun point and passing the stash to his preferred street dealers. Or strip-searching a drug mule in PUBLIC and ripping the bundled drugs which are taped to the suspects scrotum off of him.

    Or letting a dog from the K-9 savage a paedophile. So many stand-out incidents. And tension, dialogue, and stories which are top-notch.

    If anyone treats themselves to this, you will not regret it.

  • RevanEleven #17 5 years ago

    Sometimes i wonder why i spend so much time on this site, we have so little in common. Mocking The Shield is low. Silly! my god.

    Has anyone started a Shield group thingy yet?

  • Stilicho #18 5 years ago

    Kato

    I wouldn't say you had grasped "the actual meaning of the words". It's all about context.