But Hardline, first by repackaging itself as a police game and second by playing exactly like a military shooter, endorses hardline law enforcement.
If all of that fails, then show your parents a video of someone doing a police call and say it is a police game.
Does this mean we can expect titles like WipEout and G-Police, games with a highly-stylised futuristic sheen?
While an increasing number of match commanders – the officers in charge of policing games – are also believed to have been persuaded that a safe-standing trial should be held, those above them, represented by the Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO) are wary.
While Sony contemplated the notion of a G-Police game for the PlayStation 2 (who had bought Psygnosis, renaming it Studio Liverpool), they decided that, because G-Police was not as successful as other games, Studio Liverpool would instead concentrate on the Formula 1 and Wipeout franchises.
This has ensured that we have enough officers to police the games as well as delivering normal policing to communities across the UK.
The images are solely a rebroadcast of a 1988 soccer game in Bucharest between two teams affiliated, respectively, with the Army and the secret police — a game for which his father, Adrian, was the referee.
Well, maybe not in today's game, but it most certainly was a deterrent when players were allowed -- and expected -- to police the game.
He's like a rugby referee trying to police a game where thumping and grabbing are not only part of the fun, but the main reason spectators go.
The players have resisted rules that sharply curtail fighting because such measures would cost certain players their jobs, and because they largely contend that fighters police the game and prevent greater mayhem from breaking out.
Major-General Johan Jooste, who heads the joint military, police and game ranger operations, recently described the influx of poachers from Mozambique as an "insurgency" requiring a "counter- insurgency".
