Optional Traffic Laws: Difference between revisions

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== [[Driving Game]] ==

* ''[[Crazy Taxi]]''.

* ''[[The Simpsons Road Rage]]'' and ''[[The Simpsons Hit ~~and~~ Run]]''.

* ''[[The Simpsons Road Rage]]'' and ''[[The Simpsons Hit & Run]]''.

** Although in ''Hit and Run'' if you run too many people or things over the cops will come and chase you, although driving on the wrong side of the road and not stopping at traffic lights are not a problem.

** One Road Rage magazine ad even featured Homer saying "Roads are optional, just like pants"

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* The later games in the ''[[Jak and Daxter]]'' series are an exception, although in this case, it's only if you hit one of the Krimson Guard. You can run over all the civilians you want with no penalties in Haven City. In Spargus, everyone is armed, and will fire if you hit them.

== [[Role Playing Game]] ==

== [[Role-Playing Game]] ==

* Averted in ''[[Steambot Chronicles]]'' where to be certain you don't break any laws, all control of your vehicle/robot is taken away from you while in a town. Usually it's faster to get out and walk than to wait for traffic queues at lights.

** And if you decide to go down the "[[Villain Protagonist|evil]]" story branch... [[Even Evil Has Standards|you still follow traffic laws to the letter]].

== [[Simulation Game]] ==

* Driving in ''[[~~Sim City~~]] 4'' will not alert the police in any way, unless the mission says that it should. But then again, [[Screw the Rules, I Make Them|you are the mayor]].

* Driving in ''[[SimCity]] 4'' will not alert the police in any way, unless the mission says that it should. But then again, [[Screw the Rules, I Make Them|you are the mayor]].

== [[Third-Person Shooter]] ==

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** Ambulances are hilarious examples of this - they all drive like their drivers are [[Drunk Driver|completely plastered]]. Want proof? Kill a pedestrian and wait about three minutes. The ambulance will slam into any walls or lampposts between it and the wounded.

*** Walls, lampposts and ''[[Deadly Doctor|people]]''...

** Lampshaded in ''[[Grand Theft Auto San Andreas]]''; the early missions have characters note that Carl (the player character) [[Drives Like Crazy]]. Despite this, everyone [[It's Up to You|insists he drive]] whenever they get in a car.

** Lampshaded in ''[[Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas]]''; the early missions have characters note that Carl (the player character) [[Drives Like Crazy]]. Despite this, everyone [[It's Up to You|insists he drive]] whenever they get in a car.

** In ''[[Grand Theft Auto Chinatown Wars]]'', the in game GPS gives you the shortest route to your destination... assuming all traffic laws obeyed. All players learn early to drive in the opposite direction of in coming traffic, and to plow through the bus stop.

*** A hilarious law in ''[[Grand Theft Auto Chinatown Wars]]'' is that crashing into the policeman's car earns you an immediate wanted level... which you can then get rid off by slamming into another police car hard enough.

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** Bonus points for burnouts and powerslides too! Also for driving on two out of four wheels. Plus other ridiculous vehicular activities, like carsurfing. But, like in GTA, if you so much as ''scrape'' a police car, they'll be livid. They get kinda uppity if you run over lampposts too.

* ''[[Red Faction]]: Guerrilla''. You think the EDF would care about civilians driving like madmen, given heavy vehicles that can plow through buildings, but... nope. As long as you don't flatten any goons they don't give a damn. The AI civilians only care if you're in a tank or walker... at which point they panic and scatter, driving around like mad and sometimes making it ''harder'' to drive to your destination without killing any of them.

* ''[[LA Noire]]'' justifies this: you're a cop and thus not beholden to traffic laws broken in the line of duty. [[Truth in Television|This appears to be true in real life,]] [[Your Mileage May Vary|though whether this is actually justified or not is a matter of debate.]] Of course, if you commandeer a non-cop car, the police seem to magically be aware that Detective Phelps is behind the wheel and don't pursue him.

* ''[[L.A. Noire]]'' justifies this: you're a cop and thus not beholden to traffic laws broken in the line of duty. [[Truth in Television|This appears to be true in real life,]] [[Your Mileage May Vary|though whether this is actually justified or not is a matter of debate.]] Of course, if you commandeer a non-cop car, the police seem to magically be aware that Detective Phelps is behind the wheel and don't pursue him.

* The ''[[Just Cause (video game)|Just Cause]]'' series takes this trope and drives off with it at 300 MPH. Driving ridiculously fast, on the wrong side of the road, over other vehicles, etc. won't draw any ire from the cops whatsoever as long as you don't kill anyone or crash into a police car, and sometimes not even then. Carjack someone right in front of a cop, drive backwards against the flow of traffic for miles denting every car you pass, and park your stolen car right in front of a police cruiser... the cops still won't care, and the cruiser will just sit there unable to move ''because he'd have to get into the wrong lane to go around you''; the horror!

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