True Crime: Streets of LA

"Aw diggity damn I gotta go" A game I first discovered years ago on my dads ps2 and had fairly great memories of it. Coming back to it in my 20's, I'm finding out a lot of this game was fogged up by my nostalgia. While yes, I enjoyed this game a lot, and found all 3 storylines fun and exciting, I also found that this "open world" doesn't feel very expansive or even interesting. The only thing you can do, side mission wise, is finding random crimes (which I should mention, are recurring and don't have any ounce of story of completion). Now, the reason you want to do these is because you get reward points, and after 100, you earn a badge which you then can use to get an upgrade of your choosing (weapon, fighting, or driving). It's pretty boring ngl, especially since the open world is kinda big, just absolutely nothing to do in it. So in that aspect, the game feels pretty linear, which isn't the worst, but not great either. The poor ending was kinda lame, but the average and good endings were fun stuff, although the story doesn't get memorable until near the middle/end of the game. The missions were fun for the most part, I even enjoyed trying out the alternative missions too. Got like 93% of my upgrades until I beat the game all the way through, so I'd say I did a pretty thorough job with this game. In all, I can't say True Crime: Streets of LA held up my expectations for it, but it's a very fun if maybe slightly average game that feels different enough from GTA to feel like it's own thing. Recommended.

This game is just beautiful to look at and play, The story-line actualy keeps you in the game *unlike VICE CITY*. You play a cop in this one not a ganster which is kool becuase you can arrest people now.

But If I could change or add something to this game then I would add more weapons, more missions, New cars, more charactors to choice from,And the chance to fly a plane or helicopter.

My rating for this game -------

8/10

Looking forward to the movie! (coming the fall of 2005)

Don't listen to frank gifford. I don't know who gave him a computer to use, but he's wrong.

Sure, there are games that will and have taken the GTA go anywhere, do anything gameplay and the attitude that keeps you playing, but there was so much put into True Crime that you have to applaud it. Russel Wong must have gotten a lot of cash for lending his voice to this game, because he's all over it. There are hours of his dialogue, wisecracks and his grunts and groans as his character, Nick Kang, fights. Christopher Walken is in here as well, playing the old friend of Nick Kang's father.

The major similarity to GTA is that you can do what you want when you want, and you can go on to the next mission when you feel like it. The twist is that you're a cop and if you act violently, you become a bad cop, making cops your enemy as well.

There is a large soundtrack- about 50 songs or so- that are unedited. There are also some nice cheats and options as well for replayability.

So If you're looking for a game to hold you over until the next GTA, this is definitely it.

Sound: 8/10 Graphics: 8.5/10 Gameplay: 8.0

Some comments already referred to this game ripping off GTA, and that's basically its only appeal. It's missing a lot of the things that made GTA great, though. The radio only plays rap music, there's no humor, you only get one gun (unless you kill somebody and take theirs, but then it's only until it runs out of ammunition--then you lose it), and the story is really lame and hackneyed (so are GTA's, but there the references are at least tongue-in-cheek). Also, the game was pretty clean-cut and had this stupid Karma system that punishes you for breaking the law. "He's a cop. He's supposed to always obey the law." Well, ok, but that makes for a really horrible game premise. The whole thing seemed a lot like Activision was trying to capture the GTA market while avoiding the backlash from religious groups and over-the-edge "WHAT ARE WE TEACHING OUR CHILDREN??" housewives that Rockstar received for their games. Unfortunately what resulted was a huge piece of boring, bug-filled **** that was just barely interesting enough to let the plastic on the Vice City CD cool off for a week.

True Crime is the type of game that you sit down at, have a good time and then you want to play it again. It isn't Grand theft auto and it isn't driv3r but it has some cool features that none of those games have. So if you want just a good, easy to pick up game which has no real depth or heavy plot then choose True Crime: Streets of L.A.

Graphics: 6/10 (big city but spread out and dull) Sound : 10/10 ( Loads of hip hop gangster music) Gameplay: 9/10 ( Some cool features but some flawed controls) Overall: 8.5/10 (A good game to sit down and play for a while)