True Crime: Streets of L.A.

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True Crime: Streets of L.A. - PS2

Cruisin' LA

Imagine if you could combine Max Payne, Dead to Rights, and Grand Theft Auto III into one game. Now imagine that that game played as well as you hoped. That game is True Crime: Streets of LA. You play as Nick Kang. An LAPD detective with a bad rep and a bad attitude. Nick's story is weaved throughout LA's seedy underworld involving russian mafia and triads. With three endings and three different paths to take, the game is very open and a great deal of fun to play. There are three parts to True Crime: Streets of LA. Driving, fighting, and shooting. All three play as if they were the main function of the game, when in fact it's a third of the game experience. Driving around LA is great. You can commandeer any car you see and interact with every NPC. Just like GTA III you have free reign over where you go in the city and what you do. Want to bring some justice to the City of Angels? Follow your trusty radio dispatcher and dish out some pain to the bad guys? Want to reak havoc and kill some people? You can do that too. But you have to remember that everything you do has consequences on the story and it's outcome. The shooting aspect of the game is a combination of Max Payne and Dead to Rights. You can dodge in any direction and slow time while you do it, you have a targeting reticle that tells you where you're aiming, and you have damage specific locations. Fighting is kind of like Enter the Matrix...but much better. The fighting in True Crime is very fluid and very natural looking. Nick Kang has several combo's at his disposal. He can learn new skills at 24/7 facilities which can teach Kang everything from driving to shooting to driving skills. The graphics in True Crime are surprisingly good, considering that almost the entire city of LA is rendered in the game, from Downtown to Marina Del Ray. Character models for the main characters are individual and stand out against one another. NPC's and car models get repeated often, but that's to be expected with the size and scale of the game itself. Everything reacts to Nick Kang. When in a fight he can kick a perp into a table and have it break into pieces. In one level at a club, I shot an amplifier which caused it to break apart and then kicked a guy into it who then got electricuted by the broken amplifier. Everything reacts to Kang which really emerses you in the story and the environment. The sound in True Crime is stellar. Sound effects are dead on. Every gun shot is unique to the weapon. When an enemy or Nick crashes into something in the environment you can hear bottles breaking and wood cracking. When driving every car sounds different. The voice acting is incredible. Russel Wong, Michael Madsen, Gary Oldman, and Christopher Walken lend their talents to the game. The soundtrack is a nice mix of licenced tunes. Snoop Dogg, Taproot, and NERD among others, all lend their music to the game. Theres nothing like crusing around LA in a lamborgini-like convertable while listening to Poem by Taproot, believe me! But, it doesn't stop there. On the X-Box you can rip your own tracks into the game and create your own playlists. True Crime is a great game that no one should be without. Unlockable features and alternate endings, and the chance to play as Snoop Dogg. Buy it. Now. What are you doing still reading? Go get it. Suck it up and lay down the $49.99. Go on!

True Crime: Streets of L.A. - PS2

this game is a crime

to me,this game is so bad,it comes sooooo close to being as sh*ty as Darkstone.the game is so stupid!bad polygons,bad daiolog,bad,bad,bad,BAD!i had to turn it off,other wise i would have had a heart attack.you like to do radom,sh*ty @$$ missions,fight some of the goofyist looking bad guys on the planet?then buy the game.

True Crime: Streets of L.A. - PS2

This game isnt a Gta buts its still good

this game isnt too much different from Gta So 3.0 and well its just a cops best friend .. sooooo its really not to great thats why i gavr it a 3.0 and HamNcheeze is still a douche bag who cant spell your right and says "fanboy" hahha

True Crime: Streets of L.A. - PS2

GTA :The most overrated game ever.

For two years I have been trying to figure why people are obssesed with GTA. Killing the same guy over and over, running people over, driiving in circles in a very small city, etc. There is nothing cool about GTA and they continue to make these games because they know that no matter how horrible the games is, the GTA title will make Rockstar that much richer. Well I say we stand up to Rockstar and tell them that we are tired of being ripped off. I dont even paly my GTA Double Pack anymore (I never beat it. I only bought cuz everyone else did) and if someone offered me some dental floss, I'd trade it in a second. GTA has the cheesiest graphics EVER! The people look like cartoons and they dont even interact. I just cant stand the game to honest. I want my money back. I never wanted to play GTA ever again or any other game like it. Then True Crime came along and I love this game. Afer True Crime, why settle for anything sub-par like GTA. True Crime is the game that GTA wishes it could be with a better storyline, though not perfect. At least its original, unlike the one of GTA3 and Vice City (how many revenge movies have we seen like this? Rambo anyone? Arnold Schwarzenneger?) The city is like a real city. You actually see the rapists trying to get it on with the victims in the front yard and you see brawls in the middle of the street. You get the call from the police chief to investigate or chase the criminals and you can choose how you wanna bring the suspect in. You can run him over, shoot him and weaken him, fight him and arrest him, threaten him (shooting ur gun in the air), or you can just shoot muthaflipper. Whatever you wanna do, you can. You can upgrade your fighting, shooting, and self defense skills and you can keep your caras in a garage to use over and over. In GTA ur cars last 10 secs then BOOM they're gone. Here they last a LONG LONG time. You can aim from the cars (even 360 degrees), aim for headshot, etc. Why settle for GTA?

True Crime: Streets of L.A. - PS2

Not GTA but off the hook

In true crime you play as Nick Kang a out of control cop that works for the E.O.D. In this game you try to figure out who killed your father and who is behind the counterfeit money.The missions in this game is awesome I meen in each mission you either do Kung fu, follow your enemies to their hideout, get chased by enemy cars and sneak in hideouts or better yet just a whole ton of your enemies. Another good thing about this game is it has 3 story branches and after beating all 3 branches a bonus ending is unlocked.If you ever get tired of the missions then go to a mission where you getthe opportunity to solve street crimes. Plus you can get bonus upgrades like unlocking all self- defense moves or unlocking the 2003 sports car plus there is this .75 pistol and if your aim on a car is red and you shoot it the car will go into flames. Oh and if you get tire of playing as Nick Kang you can also play as soop dogg. Graphics are really no different from Midnight Club. Bottomline this game mite not be gta but definitely has every ingredient to playing an action cop game.

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