The creator of Police Quest has turned to Kickstarter to fund what looks like a spiritual successor to that classic series.

Former California Highway Patrol officer and Sierra developer Jim Walls is hoping to raise US$500,000 (NZ$633,500) for Precinct, a first-person police adventure title for Windows PC and Mac.

According to the game’s Kickstarter page, Precinct takes players on a police adventure as officer Maxwell Jones in the corrupt town of Fraser Canyon, CA. Starting out as a rookie and then moving up the ranks, players face adrenaline charged scenarios and conduct real police procedures while solving crimes and arresting perpetrators.

The game will feature a story based on true accounts of real police cases, puzzles, and “intense fast action gameplay sequences that include shootouts, high speed car chases, investigations, foot pursuits, hand-to-hand combat, and more”.

Walls designed the first three now-classic Police Quest games, all of which were released by Sierra Online is the late eighties and early nineties.