Try the hard life of a policeman in Los Angeles, and choose to keep or take the law into their hands. True Crime: Streets of LA puts players in the role of Nick Kang on missions to Los Angeles police to break up a major crime syndicates. True Crime recreates a 420 mile area of bustling urban landscape of Los Angeles, California, where players can move freely, or take assignments ranging from fashion to Santa Monica in the sandy streets of Hollywood. activity of the city is similar to the popular series from Rockstar Grand Theft Auto, which allows "the acquisition of the police" of civilian vehicles. True Crime also features deep "bullet-time shootouts, and Martial arts battles.
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True Crime: Streets of L.A. is a Grand-Theft-Auto-esque action/driving/shooter that allows you to take control of Nick Kang, a cop out to solve a strange rash of crimes and solve his father's mysterious murder. The game treats itself like a movie, with frequent dialogue and cinematics, a soundtrack filled with some of rap's heavy hitters, and some surprising voiceover talent, like Christopher Walken and Snoop Dogg.
The missions given to you tend to involve shooting up or beating up (there is a big distinction between gun fighting and kung fu) a room full of bad guys, or simply have you racing against the clock in your car. In between, you can roam around and solve simple street crimes (mugging, car jackings, etc), or earn upgrades for your driving, shooting, and fighting abilities. The upgrade mechanism is important because while it's an entertaining way to add new gameplay elements several hours in, the early game leaves you with so few moves that the game is hard, or worse, boring. The game also features a Good-Cop/Bad-Cop karma system that rewards or punishes you for doing the right or wrong thing. Arrest criminals in non-lethal manner to get better endings, or terrorize the populace and have both citizens and police turn on you.
While it can be an entertaining take on the Grand Theft Auto genre, True Crime tends to suffer from hit and miss execution. For every compelling game element, there's another equally awful one. There are several mission types that are completely devoid of any fun, melee fighting favors button mashing even after the nearly-useless string of upgrades, and the controls and camera seem to work against you more often than for you. Ultimately, hardcore Grand Theft Auto fans and the infinitely patient may be in for a treat, but everyone else is advised to think twice about this game.--Jon "Safety Monkey" Grover
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Very Good Game but probably not Vice City
True Crimes of LA is actually a pretty good game. You get to explore a much bigger city than in GTA: Vice City, but the stale gameplay and such can easily bring this game down a notch. While more realistic in everyway, True Crime can be considered one of the more innovative games of this time!
First the graphics. The graphics in this game are ASTONISHING! They're almost realistic in everyway! Surprisingly enough the game looks like REAL L.A. (with the exception of there not being much traffic.). So as far as eye-candy goes, True Crimes does a brilliant job here.
Now the sound. Again, no mistakes here! Good sound overall, and you can't go wrong here. Sound effects are great as well as the music. Again, you're not going wrong. The only thing I can say is that if you don't like Rap, you may not like the soundtrack as much.
Gameplay is probably where te game begins to faulter. The game has a "Good Cop/Bad Cop" system which isn't a bad idea. Should you do things the way a cop in real life would (i.e. you don't kill those you capture, you only injure, you fire warning shots and only shoot people in the leg and such) then you'll be considered a "Good Cop". Do the complete opposite and you're a "Bad Cop." There is a meter that tells you on which side of the bar you fall on.
Good Cop/Bad Cop isn't too badly done, but it really brings down the difficulty level of this game. It's fun to drive around but the game is so simple to keep to one side. If you see someone rob a bank you can easily just hit them with your car and not kill them, which results in you being a "Good Cop". If you hit him and kill him, you're a "Bad Cop". This becomes simple gameplay should you approach it that way.
What also makes gameplay simple is that you can choose to redo any failed missions. Clearly you could try them over and over again until the game is done with. BUT you could continue and leave mission failed. If you do this it effects future missions. Missions are very realistic. You can go undercover and hope you don't blow it even. You can do various things that a cop would do. You can search them and see if you find drugs, weapons, etc. or you could flash your badge, which will result in a suspect running or something else.
What's not to like about the gameplay? Well, it's too simple for one thing. I already talked about how you could hit a suspect with a car and not kill them, and this finishes missions easily. The other part is that you could easily complete missions without shooting (just knock them out). The auto-aim is very nice however.
The other bad thing about the gamplay are those camera angles. You'll find yourself constantly repositioning the camera just to see some of the action. Because of the camera you could be "jumped" and never know who did it, or get shot from behind.
The game presents a branching story. The outcome depends on the missions you succeed in and whether or not you're a "Good Cop" or a "Bad Cop". There are tons of ways to go through the story but the final confrontation is the same. You "could" become a bad guy but it makes no difference.
The story is actually more like something you'd see in an action movie. You've got your average jerky character (Nick Kang) who doesn't want a partner and constantly refuses to work with his and goes at it alone. His father used to be a part of the LAPD but died working a case. Sound familiar? It should, and it's full of chase scenes, one liners, and everything else you could want in an action movie.
So while larger than Vice City by A LOT the game is actually fairly linear. The storyline is decent (although the main character takes a bit of time to like), the gameplay is nice and overall the game is pretty good.
The Good:
+Great graphics and sound!
+Though quite linear, TONS of missions
+Lots of weapons to choose from
+Branching story
+Multiple endings
+HUGE City to explore
The Bad
-Main character is unlikeable at first
-Annoying Camera Angles
-Missions are too simple
The game overall is pretty decent. You've got a lot of freedom to enjoy and a huge map to explore. A great experience.
Good game, but I was a little disapointed
I had been hearing so much about this game, and couldn't wait for it to come out, then I finally played it and was a little disapointed. I wanted to like this game so much more, but there were big-time flaws. Don't get me wrong though, there are also some good features as well.
You are Nick Kang, fresh out of suspension and onto LA's E.O.D. squad. Time to take the streets back and find out what happened to your father. Drive, fight and shoot your way through a huge, accurate recreation of Los Angeles. While playing the game, there is a good cop, bad cop meter. If you use deadly force on a suspect or kill an innocent, you get bad cop points. If you arrest a suspect or bust someone with drugs or a weapon you get good cop points. If you have a good or bad cop rating affects the storyline and the outcome of the game which is cool. The storyline: OK, the storyline is alright at first for a video game, but then it takes a "Big Trouble in Little China" twist and all of the sudden your fighting flying-demon heads and demonic concubines. Then the final ending is also pretty damn stupid, after defeating the last boss there is no additional information to the story. Also there aren't that many missions, and they are pretty easy. I got 100% mission and upgrade completion in 2 days.
The gameplay is really what prevented this game from being outstanding. When driving, it feels like you're drving a tractor on an ice-rink. The handling sucks, the cars are slow, and the controls aren't very good. When in shooting mode, you have an auto-aim which works pretty good, or you can zoom in for manual-more-precise shots. The problem is that takes a few seconds and you usually get blown away while doing it. When there are guns on the ground you can kick them up and catch them and start shooting which is cool. The fight mode has some cool moves and combos, but when fighting certain characters it doesn't make sense. There aren't certain moves or buttons to counter the other persons moves, you just have to hit random buttons and hope it will hit them some of the time. You can also pick up knives and penetrate an enemies skull to kill them, which is really cool. There is also a "Metal Gear" style sneak mode where you stay silent, hide from enemies and use a tranquilizer gun.
What adds to the entertainment value of the game are some of the other features. While driving around you get calls from dispatch about crimes in your area and you can but these criminals if you want. Some of funnier ones were: busting people at an anti-videogame rally, saving talk-show host Jay Deleno's car, stopping a truck full of fake Puma gear, and arresting a diseased prostitute.You can also walk around and shakedown anyone you want, searching them for weapons or drugs, there really is no point to it though, it only gives you good cop points. Throughout the game you also get to fight crazy bums and strippers!
The graphics are good, no problems there.
The soundtrack is outstanding, this best video game soundtrack I've heard so far. If you don't like rap you probably won't like it though. Voice-overs by Christopher Walken (nice!) and other celebrities, and Nick Kang has some funny lines.
Overall a good game, but not quite as good as I had hoped. The gameplay and story just weren't cutting it. It is worth a play-thru though, but I say rent it before you buy.
Not GTA but just as good
I've played this game on a demo on the ps2. It is extremely fun and it has many elements that make it worth buying in the future. Unlike GTA it has advanced hand to hand combat in which you can perform combos to take out your enemy. The gun play is truly awesome also. You can do "bullet-time" in any direction as much as you like unlike Max Payne in which you were restricted to only using it when you were able to. Also the driving is not like GTA at all. It actually is life like. The car turns and peels out just like a real life situation. The graphics are outstanding and can be compared to GTA: Vice City. You can't roam around as much as you like which can be a downside for those who excelled in the shooting of pedestrians and going on killing sprees and doing hit and runs in Vice City. All in all i feel this is a great game, and will serve you hours of fun, will soon be an awesome hit!
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