GAME STUDIO 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.
GRAPHICS: The layout of L.A. is impressive. You can tell a lot of work went into making L.A. look realistic. Sure, it’s not exactly accurate, but what do you expect? The cars look good and damage appears as it happens which adds another level of accuracy. Some of the indoor scenes are subpar making the overall graphics a mixed bag.
CONTROLS: Three types of gameplay make up True Crime. First you must drive to complete missions. Sometimes you have to go fast and other times its more important to have patience as you follow a suspect and try not to be spotted. The driving itself isn’t fun or easy.
The worst controls come from firing guns. The auto aim is a pain in the a**. If you can figure out how to fire on a moving target you’re a better man than me. You can upgrade your skill as you move along but it hardly matters. The only easy way to lay a beat down is with good old fashioned fist to chin combat.
SOUND: On the Ps2 and Xbox, True Crime had one of the best soundtracks to date and it hasn’t change here. You get a major mix bag of music from Megadeth to Eazy-E. What more could you ask for? The sound effects are okay and the voice acting is fine with its lame one-liners.
FRANKLY: True Crime needed work and didn’t get the necessary touch ups to make it worth your while.
+ Richie Wright
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