Police Quest III: The Kindred
The third game in Sierra's Police Quest series. Based again in Lytton, Sonny Bonds has been promoted, and is forced to deal with both the questionable ethics of a colleague and the attempted murder of his…
Police Quest III: The Kindred is an adventure developed by Sierra On-Line, released 1 October 1991 on Amiga and DOS.
What Police Quest III: The Kindred is
Police Quest III: The Kindred is an adventure game developed by Sierra On-Line and released in 1991. It is available on Amiga and DOS. It runs on SCI.
The premise, in the publisher's words
The third game in Sierra's Police Quest series. Based again in Lytton, Sonny Bonds has been promoted, and is forced to deal with both the questionable ethics of a colleague and the attempted murder of his wife, as the sleepy California city is under attack by a deranged serial killer.
How it plays
It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are drama, mystery and thriller. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
Where it sits in the Police Quest series
Police Quest III: The Kindred is the third of 20 entries we hold in the Police Quest series. It arrived 3 years after Police Quest II: The Vengeance. The next entry was Police Quest: In Pursuit of the Death Angel in 1992.
What it launched against
Police Quest III: The Kindred launched on 1 October 1991, within three weeks of Super Ghouls'n Ghosts and Road Rash.
Released around the same time: Super Ghouls'n Ghosts, Road Rash.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
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