The Precinct was shaping up to be a pretty solid experience, and based on the first few hours of play, we really thought it was going to be a very fun game to recommend. However, our positive first impressions soon wore thin, mainly because of the way the game is built and its lack of variety. If you're looking for a GTA-like kind of game, it is clearly not what this is. There is a storyline but it's not especially interesting and it's only told via static images. To progress into it, you'll spend most of your time patrolling the streets in what seems to be a police simulator kind of game. As there's some degree of unpredictability in the patrols, it is rather fun at the beginning, but the city being very small, it starts to get old after a few hours. The shooting mechanics aren't good in our opinion but thankfully, driving around and chasing criminals behind the wheel is fun, even more so with the possibility to wreck things in the scenery. The excitement can only last so long though and comes a point when starting a new patrol hoping to gather random clues to help the story progress doesn't feel as exciting anymore. Maybe some players won't mind as much as we do, but because of that routine aspect, we eventually stopped playing before arresting all the members of the two gangs we were supposed to catch.
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