Game Company’s Description: As Nick Kang, your brutal reputation and lethal skills have landed you a nasty job: heading up an undercover task force to stop the Chinese and Russian gangs from turning the City of Angels into their hellish playground.
Drive, fight and blast your way through a massive array of unpredictable missions, using stealth techniques, martial arts moves and an ask-questions-later arsenal. For maximum replayability, a changeable, branching storyline gives you the freedom to complete missions as you choose–however, you also have to face the consequences of those choices for better or worse. Successes or failures lead to entirely different game experiences, unveiling multiple storylines with no repeated missions.
Build skills as you progress, learn new fighting moves, more sophisticated shooting skills and driving maneuvers. Get all the gritty detail of the real undercover world in a painstakingly recreated Los Angeles featuring recognizable landmarks and famous streets. Cruise the city taking down or harassing the scum of the streets. Bust drug dealers and prostitutes, shakedown informants and confront gang members to get the job done.
Looks like the hardcore streets of L.A. have just met their match.
Look: The streets of L.A. are wonderfully designed. The buildings and streets were amazing to look at and similar to L.A.. The characters aren’t too shabby either. There are some issues with collision detection however. It looks like a film-amazing.
Feel: The first thing anyone will think when they play this is how much it reminds them of Grand Theft Auto. What is fantastic about True Crime is how you can play good cop or bad cop. You can either fight crime or be the cause of it. The fun thing is even when you play good cop it feels like you are bad cop. One time I had to shoot at a drunk driver. Who does that? Then there are the zombies. It does get a little out of control.
You can drive, shoot, and fight hand to hand. Hold on to your gun because you’ll need it.
Hear: Great hip-hop soundtrack and voice acting, if it doesn’t match up with the characters mouth. Christopher Walken is the narrator and its one of the best parts of the game.
Frankly: True Crime wants to be Grand Theft Auto with a twist yet can’t reach that level. That doesn’t mean you shouldn’t get in a little good cop, bad cop.
+ Rick Carey
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