POLICE QUEST II Adventure Game Gameplay Walkthrough - No Commentary Playthrough

POLICE QUEST II: THE VENGEANCE Adventure Game Gameplay Walkthrough - No Commentary Playthrough

[@ShattForte]

I beat this game as a kid through sheer trial and error. Took a very long time, but boy was it worth it. Old favorite.

[@sha11235]

That's the point.

[@devpac7861]

forreals it was a real sense of accomplishment I don't feel much these days now that I'm in my 40s

[@craigharris41]

Whole summer for me.

[@CookiehsAndDreams]

I've never personally played Police Quest, but I recall seeing my late uncle play this game series a ton and it's rather bittersweet watching this. He was a huge video game fanatic and especially loved the old-school ones.

[@bobloerakker7010]

Games like these taught me english, that and morning cartoons.

[@patrickmartin7692]

Made me into a blazing fast typist :-D

[@Erik-vp5bm]

Same. After playing Larry, I was probably the only 9-year old in school that could spell "prophylactic". :D

[@brianmayer702]

Yep I learned how to read by playing kings quest

[@stianb.428]

Same. Type keys cellphone now. Write good!

[@CookiehsAndDreams]

I love how Keith's main role in this game is to yell at Sonny for nearly leaving him behind every five seconds.

[@sha11235]

He does mostly shit in this game.

[@2Addicted2YT]

I spent about 6 months knowing I had missed something in Marie's house before I was able to go forward in the game. I always wrote "look at ashtray" and got something like "it's an ashtray" or "you're looking at it". Drove me insane.

[@CookiehsAndDreams]

I don't blame you at all. The commands you have to type in are stupidly specific, but I guess that's just the 80's programming.

[@jamesrad6317]

Like comment.

[@Koettnylle]

It seems that the blonde hair dye caught on from the first game

[@sha11235]

At least in this game you didn't have to learn how to drive the damn car.

[@stianb.428]

Yeah, I failed my test 5 times, thanks to playing this game in excess. Sierra should've paid for the extra lessions

[@Erik-vp5bm]

I never realized back then how incredibly quiet this game is.

[@digitalmagicAR]

Yeah back then those DOS games had little music because space was limited. Most people were playing with the built-in single voice PC speaker but some people bought add-in sound cards which sounded much better. This walkthrough has upgraded sound. Back in '88 we played PQ2 most of the way through on a monochrome PC with PC speaker which could hardly run it. A little later in '90 I got a 386 with an Adlib/soundblaster card and it was almost an entirely different game :) Beat it on the later machine. Good times!

[@revokdaryl1]

​@@digitalmagicAR And people with money to burn bought the Roland MT-32

[@digitalmagicAR]

@@revokdaryl1 I would have liked a Roland MT-32 for sure. I did buy a Pro Audio Spectrum a little later - maybe around '92. Ahh. better times

[@digitalmagicAR]

@TheGreatUndergroundEmpire Yeah starting about 1989 , 256 color VGA appeared in games and that was an entirely new experience from the 16 color (but higher res) EGA. So those 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993 games were stunning, and with a sound card the experience was almost magical. Those were good times. Then Super VGA came out sometime later and was much better.

[@ianbrowning7437]

One of my fav Sierria games, we need more stuff like this : realistic / infomraitive games made by people who know what they are doing.

[@kyoujinko]

In the car, Sonny and Keith seriously look like grown up Beavis and Butthead. This was what life was like after the move.

[@TheRmm1976]

This was my favorite of all the old Sierra games (along with Hero's Quest / Quest for Glory)

[@Erik-vp5bm]

This one was good, but Quest for Glory was legend.

[@jonber9411]

Quest for glory 🥰

[@davethomas543]

All the years I played this game as a kid and not once did I ever see the intro. Thanks for that

[@orthdxx]

Just love that iteration of the Quests' series: Space quest III, King's Quest - Perils of Rosella, Quest for glory, this one. The graphics, the colours, the mood... It was a whole new world for us children back then. And it really helped to learn english - I played these with dictionary on my lap for my native language is russian.

[@hundun5604]

Yes, I was about the same age. Playing these games really helped with my English. My father thought it was MTV how I learned English. lol He never understood videogames, how helpful it can be leaning a language.

[@HellfireTheAwesome]

I can definitely say that this is the funkiest police quest there is.

[@blueghost4121]

I remember I was stuck for so long because I didn't know that the towel on the terrorists head was called a TURBAN. 😂😂😂

[@Peter-st5co]

Good to see Sonny has still got his hair bleached from the first part

[@sha11235]

Actually, at the end of the first game, he has his hair back to black again.

[@heartofmythril]

I guess he found out that blondes do have more fun.

[@maverick2009ish]

i vaguely remember when reading the story/hint-book as a kid that it stated that Sonny (or Marie) liked the blonde look on him after the events of PQ1, so Sonny colored his hair again

[@maverick2009ish]

@@sha11235 it was never really black was it (at least in the vga remake), more dark-blonde/brownish

[@davidcaruso2517]

I remember figuring out how to disarm the bomb on the plane before realizing that the instructions were hidden in the bad guys turban! Probably "saved" and "restored" 40-50 times LOL

[@kalle911]

smooth driving music, I never heard that. And I had zero idea about gun sighting at first, soon I figured it out. But I think I was in 4th-5th grade at the time when I found this game and I only started to learn English in 3rd grade.

[@helorumtheknightsofmambrin2155]

At the airport always a joy to talk with Larry Laffer.

[@botulismsauce]

I want that peppy tune playing whenever I drive around.

[@atarijawa462]

I forget which one it was but in the game if you called Sierra's real phone number or the number for their hint line Al Lowe would pick up and start talking about Leisure Suit Larry. There were a couple other people you could call too but i don't remember who they were.

[@benolow6529]

Sierra games was the best back in the days. Got me into computers because you wanted to play these awesome games.

[@5150georgie]

I played the !@@$ out of this when I was a kid. They NEED to make a remake on this. Was so damn fun. Oo the memories!

[@metfan999]

LA Noire might be to your liking.

[@farab4391]

I don't like any of the newer point and click adventure games. I wouldn't mind them making a new one based on the classics, especially with AI and voice recognition, the text or voice interaction could be a lot better.

[@farab4391]

OMG, that opening title just reminded me this is the one where you go scuba diving. At the time it was so cool. Like some other people here, I also loved to spend days/weeks/months on Sierra games and figure them out by myself.

[@TheGman2274]

Police quest games were very challenging, But I loved every minute of them

[@TerranMcCall]

Great game! Didn't go to the mall first to search the jailer's car though. Odd you were able to progress. I also remember being accosted at Cotton Cove too.

[@DrJekyll38]

I still don't find the 'hijacking' very plausible, unless the Death Angel set it up somehow. I half-expected Sonny to search the bodies and discover they were really former associates of Bains, like from the poker game in PQ1?

[@sha11235]

They put that in to create excitement.

[@revokdaryl1]

And not stereotypical at all being middle eastern guys wearing turbans. No stereotype there at all lol. Hey, it was 1988.

[@cpt_nordbart]

Hijacking a domestic flight and then attempting to get to Egypt? They have extra fuel on board but I don't think that'll make a trip starting in California non stop to Egypt remotely possible. Maybe they'll Captain Sully it in the Atlantic and hope for a passing ship to take em the rest of the way.

[@brentlichtenberg]

I guess sonny doesn’t get a commendation for stopping a hijacking because it wasn’t within Lytton city limits?

[@sha11235]

They didn't bother with that here. They should've though.

[@nathanmasters115]

Sonny and Keith look like Starsky and Hutch.

[@sha11235]

Why Sonny would feel sorry for Bains at any level is beyond me.

[@CookiehsAndDreams]

I kinda thought the same thing, but from what I've observed, Sonny's a very sympathetic and kind guy. Compared to characters like Keith, he's a lot milder mannered and a bit of a refresher to the somewhat typical "tough cop" persona. Whether that be intentional or not, I don't know.

[@sha11235]

@@CookiehsAndDreams Kenny does mostly nothing in this game, notice? With the hijacking, he says he is going to check the cockpit, like that's where the bomb would be.

[@Yzzyxz]

I used a high quality filter on DOSBox called hq3x. I love the original graphics, but this filter smooths out the pixels which I found to be easier on the eye to play and better for the youtube videos when viewed in HD.

[@SuperMoeLarryCurly]

I played this game on a 286-12mhz with an adlib ISA soundcard. FM synth! Would have loved the MT-32 but it was out of reach at the time.

[@richardtheworker]

in a good and obedient heart!

[@technoman9000]

Ugh, what's with the smoothing? It's missing the jagged pixelation I'm used to.

[@Amor1990]

You never returned the ear protectors

[@sha11235]

I guess because there weren't any points for that and Ken didn't say anything when you left with them both times.

[@hundun5604]

You never know when you need them! 🤔 /jk

[@rcslyman8929]

1:12:25 "With master marksmanship at all of 4 feet away..."

[@BoilsonA]

I ❤loved that game , played on my IBM 486 computer 🖥 😀

[@grendel824]

lol@ Keith "screaming into the radio and barely catching his breath" in the car while all the time puffing rhythmically on a cigarette.

[@grendel824]

also ol' Adolf H. chilling on the bench at 36:55

[@krazykukurov]

I remember there is a stage where you get a plane ticket and if you drive to the airport in your cop car they stop you so I drove in my personal vehicle and it crashed the game

[@CrunchyRhombus]

Nice! Thanks for sharing.

[@rmmartins133]

Also why dont you get that cool sound when you get points? I love that :)

[@Tigerman1138]

Best one.

[@a1m598]

Why would the control room be down in an open sewer?

[@notmuch_23]

I don't think if the game would let you, but when Sonny lost Bains in pursuit from Cotton Cove and ended up at the airport, he should have gone inside to warn the gate agents and pass Bains' picture around in case he tries to get a flight, (edit) or rent a car, which he did.

[@sha11235]

He didn't.

[@notmuch_23]

@@sha11235 Yeah i forgot he rented a car...

[@sha11235]

@@notmuch_23 I remember when I first played the game, I passed around Bains' picture to everyone, and most didn't know who he was.

[@notmuch_23]

@@sha11235 the pic showing should be "this man will very likely try to rent a car/get a flight. If he does, call the Lytton Police and try to stall him."

[@Aurora2097]

Good game!

[@MrRabb1ts]

In 20:25 after the first shootout, if you kept sunny on-screen longer, bains would had driven out from the bush with the black car. if sonny was below keith, he got run over. Bains was a real ahole...

[@rlouie05]

Though we all despised Bains, they determined that you were acting in self-defense and gave you the Silver Commendation Award even after you fired at Bains first?

[@ericrundquist1968]

Amazing flashback

[@hundun5604]

I wonder what happened to Sonny's car. Why he's driving that white thing. He had a nicer model in PQ1.

[@Dreadpirateflappy]

I never once got beyond the plane, as a Kid I had no clue that I had to readjust the sights. always got confused how I got shot everytime.

[@Pablo1138]

Did they ever release this game with better graphics like they did with the first game?

[@SMBChmmr]

No.

[@bigress4300]

@@SMBChmmr that’s actually sad. I wonder if there is a mod for it

[@machmslf]

This was my favourite one...

[@sha11235]

Some of this is not in order, like calling Colby. You do that later in the game. I guess they are just showing ways to get points.

[@Ambaryerno]

Yeah, this is pretty much a run through of what you need to do to finish the game. It skips over a lot of the story beats.

[@sha11235]

@@Ambaryerno And things you can do that may not get you points, but are interesting anyway.

[@felixwijaya1702]

Greatest Game Ever....

[@matthewgregory2106]

Managed to complete it back in the day with a lot of guessing

[@Brandonarchambault]

Would love to see a modern remake of this classic game.

[@derekdoubleut]

I want a Netflix series of all of the "Quest" series

[@maximegagnon8597]

I don't get the story line, so the DA knew internal affairs was setting them up?

[@tdhiatt52]

My dad got me a tandy 1000 when I was kid played the hell out of this game

[@ifragisk]

growing up i couldn't get the locker open, which meant i never got far at all. these games were kind of unfair. you need to know the exact words to use and where to look. it's not like now when you could look online for help. plus slow hardware made reloading kind of tedious.

[@Level0NPCs]

To be fair, Police Quest was one of the least obtuse of the early Sierra adventure games; it just expected you to be super meticulous about following proper police procedure, including checking your field manual frequently and not missing any details. Pretty sure the locker code was copy protection. Now King's Quest, there was a series that required a gold medalist in mental acrobatics to solve some of its weird puzzle logic.

[@ifragisk]

+Level 0 NPCs the locker code wasn't even in the manual. you had to look on the back of your scuba certificate i believe. so i mostly drove around but the game would soon end fron deriliction of duty

[@Level0NPCs]

I must've been remembering Police Quest 3's, which was definitely printed on the back of the field manual in the game box.

[@TheRmm1976]

I seem to recall you could purchase hint books for the Sierra games. But yeah, wasn't easy to find and they took weeks (sometimes months) to arrive in the mail!

[@bigdrew565]

John this was because gamers bitched about disk based copy protection.

[@Tigerman1138]

For fun... Try talking to the hotel clerk post- investigation

[@robertgillander3289]

This is great. I'm assuming they never made a VGA reboot of PQ II? Never seen but 1 and 3

[@childofcascadia]

I have to say it always bugged me they called the magazine "clip". The thing that goes in a semiautomatic handgun to load it that looks like a rectangle full of bullets is called "magazine". No one who actually knows anything about guns (like a cop) calls it "clip". Its only people who know nothing about guns that call it that. A clip is actually an entire different thing that you use to load ammo *into a magazine*.

[@whodareswins999]

is this the same Marie wasn't she a quote-unquote working girl in the last game? it would be so phenomenally cute and yet so wrong if that were the case

[@sha11235]

It is.

[@Nutsaur]

I got stuck at the motel. I knew I had to call for backup but didn't know how. I tried "Call for backup", "Use mic" "Use radio" and never got past here.

[@kingmiller1982]

Better have your young game ready for this gem 💎

[@hundun5604]

They forgot to add the white plastic gloves to the field kit. Or didn't they exist in the late '80?

[@jayyanz]

Can you imagine making this game in 2020 with all the racial stereotypes, cancel culture sjws would riot

[@jayyanz]

Desert home of Bum Aroun...

[@bigress4300]

Like??? The only one I can think of is the terrorist scene

[@revokdaryl1]

When you show up at Cotton Cove and Keith wants to bet the jogger witness is a 'dude'. The Sonny of today would chastise him immediately with "How dare you assume the jogger is male or female. Maybe they're non-binary! It's 2024 Keith, shape up!"

[@revokdaryl1]

​@@jayyanzKudofi's Do It Yourself Bomb. 🤣

[@BollingHolt]

Keith may be somewhat of a useless partner, but at least he's better than Morales! LOL

[@StaalBurgher0]

😅

[@Norman_Peterson]

i LOVE this game!

[@sha11235]

Sonny should've also got something for foiling that hijacking.

[@timothyvanringelenstijn5987]

This one is abit strange... Whenever I was at the shooting area in the pd... I always had to turn in the protector...

[@MinecraftMartin]

This game didn't come out until 2002, they just brainwashed us to think it was earlier

[@Norman_Peterson]

i'm alive and STILL love this game!

[@otisaga]

This game series someone managed check all boxes of racism in its run

[@tetakdejan6887]

8:18

[@maximegagnon8597]

isn't that Larry Laffer sitting at 1:08:52 ?

[@Excalibur_LP]

Only 18 points for disarming the bomb ... bit harsh imo

[@FamousWolfe]

Now this game is known as Defund The Police Quest II: Vengeance of BLM.

[@MrWolfTickets]

53 Mary 2, wouldn't that call sign be for a motorcycle in CA? I'm just cross referencing my CHiPs and Dragnet memories, but then again,I can't believe this game would miss on something like that, so maybe it's just Lytton city stuff.

[@rcslyman8929]

For LAPD, yes, absolutely. Detectives would be Henry or William (such as the ever famous 3-William-56). So it likely is just a Lytton thing.

[@bigress4300]

Why would Bains hide in the sewers of all places??

[@sha11235]

That's where that rat belonged.

[@CookiehsAndDreams]

I mean, Keith literally called him a rat, so.

[@tetakdejan6887]

46:42

[@tiberiius]

i don't remember the music. i think with the 3.5" disks you don't get it.

[@KingowShow]

lol man thats midi sound he it does not take up space a little

[@andi4life]

31:43 how can you get points there? when i try this, i always get the message "Officer Gelepsi and Keith are busy discussing the details of the shoot-out." I also don't see anyone doing that and getting points when i see other solutions.

[@bullss21]

So..was the Marie that was the prostitute in the last game your girlfriend in this game?

[@SMBChmmr]

Yup. and You're married in number 3

[@swerboski]

Yes, she number four prostitute in whole Khazakstan.....NICE!

[@sha11235]

Yeah, she was actually an old girlfriend of Sonny's if you watch the first game.

[@Ambaryerno]

@@sha11235 You won't get a lot of details if you watch the OP's video for PQ1, though. He tends to skip over the story beats and flavor dialogue.

[@Squic83]

Is this the Amiga version?

[@tubeMonger]

What happened to the pixels?

[@pyramidhead138]

the LPD has the smallest parking lot and too crammed at that

[@JuanMatteoReal]

This didn't got a VGA remake huh

[@shaunsteele6926]

did Sonny keep his bleached hair from the first game?

[@LouisdeFuines]

+Jack Bauer Yes, he did.

[@Norman_Peterson]

yes because is a Californian guy.

[@sha11235]

I guess so.

[@JStryker47]

Weird, since the ending of the first game clearly shows him having his old black hair.

[@sha11235]

Guess he decided to change it. In the third one he is back to black.

[@CEngelbrecht]

Grainy VGA 2D. Those were the days.

[@swerboski]

EGA

[@CEngelbrecht]

+bigswerboski Ah, right.

[@Sitonmyfacebook]

Wanted for excessive verbosity...contact the local grammar nazis...

[@rmmartins133]

how come you dont have to adjust your gun on the shooting range for accuracy?

[@Carliarnius]

I just watched it and wondered the same. Usually you get killed by Bains in Cotton Cove because you can't hit him

[@brettjaniec3933]

How can you get 301 points out of 300?

[@DaRealPatrickP]

Where can I find this game now?

[@Rasan619]

Gog.com

[@spagzs]

Who re did the music?

[@cpt_nordbart]

Bit of a downgrade of his car here.

[@number3Ihatetoontown]

I get stuck at the 20:14 shootout. My suspicion is that I didn't have well accuracy. Is that a reasonable cause to miss the target suspect?

[@number3Ihatetoontown]

I'm quite certain of that now from reading the screen shortly after the 1:21:27 shooting.

[@jasonb.6623]

You need to take the gun to the range and qualify on it before the gun battle, or else you lose automatically. When you search the hotel (later), slamming your gun against the wall knocks it out and it needs to be recalibrated then also.

[@binzer7771]

All Keith does is talks a lot of junk and smokes.

[@doddeddo]

Pixel shaders are blasphemy!

[@tolbertjason]

it was nothing compared to the old Amiga Video of Police quest 2 that other guy did and they ended up getting of it.