Gaming: There's Been An Influx Of Players Applying To The Lspd In Gta...

King Kong ain't got sh*t on… these dedicated GTA police officer roleplayers

From vampire nightclub owners to Proclaimers-singing reality TV stardom, pretend journalist bank robberies, and genuinely astonishing in-game Shakespeare ensembles, GTA roleplay is no stranger to turning full-blooded virtual violence into imaginative theatre production. The latest subculture to capture my imagination, however, is RP police academies.

And I'm clearly not alone. Because while player cops in GTA roleplay servers are nothing new—I first happened upon the homemade law-serving scene back in 2017—having spent the last few weeks revisiting some of my favourite servers (and dipping my toe into some new ones), there's definitely a bit of a blue-line renaissance going on out there on the crime-ridden streets of Los Santos and Blaine County right now.

Across major FiveM and RageMP communities, joining the LSPD isn't a case of spawn-in and sound the whaler either, it's a proper ordeal. There's a genuine hiring pipeline, for example, complete with application forms, background checks, interviews, academies, and performance reviews. Assuming you get through all of that, you can indeed rule the streets with an iron fist a la Officer Tenpenny (don't pretend you haven't thought about it), but actually getting there is, clearly, far from straightforward.

Before trusting you with a make-believe taser and a squad car, most RP servers demand you have a working mic and the ability to use push-to-talk (those au fait with GTA RP will know this is far from a given). They expect a believable character backstory, as well as for you to pass a voice interview, attend an academy covering radio codes, traffic stops, report writing and at least pretending you won't go totally power mad on day one.

But if you want to see how deep this rabbit hole goes, look no further than Eclipse RP, one of the most structured police roleplay communities around.

Which, truth be told, is all a wee bit too much for me—I say with a straight face while being the guy who once posed as a lawyer and tried to clear a serial killer of murder in a GTA 5 roleplay server. In my defence, I was ad-libbing that the entire time which, evidently, did not help the defence of the man facing jail time. Seriously, though, while unsure if I've got the wherewithal to commit this hard to GTA RP personally, I love the fact there are so many others who are, so many years on from the scene's humble beginnings more than a decade ago. A

Source: PC Gamer