CVG - Since GTA first hit PS2, there's been a glut of copycat games that have tried - and failed - to capture the thrills of Rockstar's epic. Crime Life, Narc and 25 To Life should never have seen the light of day due to their criminal gameplay, but True Crime: Streets Of LA managed to carve out a niche of its own.
One of the many video games that have faded into obscurity is True Crime: New York City, a title with a lot of heart but not enough support.
I had this game, was fun for the time. Trying to chase down Puffy and JLo in the limo fleeing the club shooting. I'm not really sure if you caught them or it was just a call on the police radio.
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I've loved this game since I got it Christmas 2005. Despite the glitches, I enjoyed it a lot
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CVG - Oh True Crime, we hardly knew you. Okay, that's not strictly true.
True Crime: Streets of LA debuted in 2003, when Activision decided it wanted a piece of Rockstar's Grand Theft Auto flavoured pie.
It was a serviceable open-world action title with a really annoying and occasionally offensive main character. It scored decent reviews and faded into the background, quickly forgotten by all but a handful of people.
Fast forward to 2005 and True Crime hit the streets of New York City. Still green with GTA-envy, it earned middling review scores and stumbled into a packed retail highway where it was promptly run over by other higher-profile titles.
... if you wanted an action-sandbox game with an asian crime-story set in an asian city, you were probably looking forward to this.
Personally, I LOVE sandbox games like GTA, Assassin's Creed, RDR, etc... and I absolutely LOVE Hong Kong (been there a bunch of summers now and it's amazing!)...
... but from everything I saw from the screenshots, videos and info in interviews, it looked to me they were half-assing it by focussing ONLY/MAINLY on Hong Kong Island (and Tsim Sha Tsui/Kowloon), and it just didn't really look or feel like the REAL Hong Kong either. It looked like a Hollywood-made Chinatown.
So while you'd think I would be the target-demographic for a game like this, I wasn't very excited about anything they've shown.
Rockstar did an amazing job converting New York's look and 'vibe' to Liberty City. This developerment team didn't do the same for Hong kong, sadly.
True Crime Hong Kong was destined to be completed like any other game is being worked on right now, the critics and personal opinions about it come when its complete.
Im starting to think that prick Bobby Dikhead canceled TC:Hong Kong because the devs wanted more time to work on it (which means losing more money in Activison standards)and for that they flushed all that work down the toilet (literaly)
I've never played a True Crime game before so this new one will definitely be a breath of fresh air. I can't wait to parkour it up, and grind some faces off http://www.youtube.com/watc...
I lost my copy but I remember liking it better than GTA 3 at least.
I actually liked this game alot, La and Nyc were both very good games but not better than Gta in my opinion. But i loved being able to arrest people :-) and the maps were bigger than anything in GTA, Real street names and almost perfect sized map of their counterpart.
Not even close, but its still fun to play.
True Crime: Why it was almost better than GTA -
HAHAHAHAHAHA. I stopped reading after the title.