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Ex-cop Nick Kang is going deep undercover to stop the Chinese and Russian gangs that are destroying the city. Bring down the crime syndicates of L.A. in driving missions, gunfights and martial arts showdowns across hundreds of square miles. 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. True Crime features a branching storyline that gives you the freedom to complete missions as you choose and face the consequences later. The hardcore streets of L.A. have met their match. here
PRODUCT DETAILS
UPC:047875804272
Condition:Used
Genre:Racing
Platform:Playstation 2
Region:NTSC (N. America)
ESRB:Mature
SKU:PS2_TRUE_CRIMES_STREETS_OF_LA
———This game is fully cleaned, tested & working. Includes the Disc/Cartridge Only. May have some minor scratches/scuffs.This description was last updated on October 28th, 2020. here
Zachery Phillip Prescott –
Not quite as fun as I remember it being but it brought back some memories and was worth it for the price.
robert lyon –
Good
Brian Reaves –
Imagine the free-roaming capabilities of GTA with the fighting techniques of DTR and you’ll get an idea of this game. There are so many fun things to do with this game besides the main missions! You can frisk any and every person on the street for drugs or illegal weapons–though you might tick a few off enough to fight you! If you get to certain parts of town (the rougher neighborhoods) you can just stand there and watch the street crimes happen around you! And it’s your choice as to how to stop them. If you take the people down and arrest them, you earn a “Good Cop” rating, but if you choose to just blow them away, you earn a “Bad Cop” rating. While this doesn’t affect gameplay much, it will affect the ending of the game. The missions are fairly linear, but it’s the “between mission” activities that set this game apart. You can go to the gym and improve your fighting skills (you can’t do much to start out with), or go to the shooting range to get better weapons with your score (and don’t expect to just walk in and start shooting-some of the targets fire back!). You’re going to have to remember where everything is though, because you might have a hard time finding a hospital/first-aid station when you’re really needing one in the 200+ miles of LA you’re driving through. If you enjoy GTA, this is definitely one to buy. The cars handle differently, so if you’re chasing a perp in a stolen vehicle, you’d better think twice before commandeering a limo to chase them with! One warning: the language here is serious, so it easily earns it’s “M” rating. The only other major gripe with this game is the camera angles. You could be fighting several guys at once and have your character all of the sudden staring at the camera with no enemy in sight. And try chasing a mugger down the street when you can’t even see what’s going on! By the time you adjust the camera to get behind your character again, it’s too late. A single button reset would have been good. Otherwise, a fun game.
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Jon Robert –
Thats exactly how I feel after purchasing this gameI very rarely buy games, rather renting them and saving myself a whole lot of money and boot up bum suffering for any crap games that are out there, theres plenty of those and this one is no different.Sure ive played worse games but after all the hype i read from magazines that this would be a wonderful game and how addictive it was i was surprised to say the least. This is NOTHING like Ive heard, furthermore to the guy who wrote his own review saying anyone who wrote bad reviews for this game are idiots, how can you say you shouldnt compare this to grant theft auto 3 when its so obvious the makers of this game were clearly influenced by GTA 3.The game falls flat on its behind for a number of reasons, starting with the length of gameplay, all this talk about branching storylines and how it plays different and turns out different each time you play it, well theres good ending, so so ending and bad ending and thats it, its still a linear game by way of the story, u follow a bad guy, u escape bad guys, save someone, shoot someone, beat up someone, but either way you end up with 3 different endings, the only non linear thing about it is what you do between the story. That would be going around and catching criminals on the street, sure theres a lot of catching and shooting to be had, but i must have come across the same mini mission at least 4 times, how many times do you have to get the crazy serial killer off the street? I must have arrest and/or shot him 4 times so far.You will only play the game for so long before you notice the little jobs you have to do catching criminals are exactly the same you performed an hour earlier.The length of the game is pretty saddening, I beat it within a week, and that was all 3 story endings that i came across. And i only didnt beat it any sooner because its christmas season and ive been spending some long hours at work, plus i have a life besides games.Driving sucks as well, you dont really get the feeling that your driving at any fast speeds, the car can easily careen off the road and crash.What made GTA3 so great was that you could take off with any number variety of cars, bikes, golf carts and helicopters which added to the fun of those games. This game is so much more simpler than that, a few different cars, a bus here and there and thats about it.However not all is bad with the game, its got some fantastic voice acting from the hollywood cast, Christopher Walken is as always a great character actor, a real presence in any movie, you can never underestimate him, he isnt on the game much but you gotta love that voice. Michelle Rodriguez, you wont get any finer girls than that, she does a great job too in her role as a take no doo-doo cop.Other that these terrific actors the fun stops there, further more, unlike GTA3 the action departs from semi realistic(shooting baddies) to shooting big fiery demon heads with no bodies and some big az silly looking dragon, here i was playing what i thought was an adult game suddenly turned into harry potter and the chamber of secrets in 2 seconds flat?!?!?!?!My behinds already sore after wasting my money on this which is a pity as it cleary had some potential
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Jorge –
Works good
Javai –
Just how I remembered
A Man Has No Name –
Many have written much on this game, so I will try to keep this brief and avoid repeating what’s been stated. This game has the right elements for a good game, and even a storyline that’s just solid enough to lay the foundation for an interesting game, but Grand Theft Auto III and Vice City, it’s not. It’s not even on the level of Dead to Rights. Some levels are just plain too short making you feel more like a passenger than the one in charge — you take down a foe and the game quickly jumps to a long cutscene, making you feel like an observer to the action. It doesn’t have the feel, the tension, the sense of inhabiting a real world as you experience playing “Grand Theft Auto: Vice City.” It feels too much like a game, and can feel flimsy and flat; it just doesn’t have the depth or passion/vision to pull you in. In contrast, GTA feels like an experience.True Crime doesn’t know what it wants to be: or, more accurately, it wants to be GTA but falls far short. Sure, it’s good to have lofty ideas, but when you fall short, you usually fall hard. Perhaps, in contrast, that’s why Jet Li’s “Rise to Honor” succeeds: it may be simple and straightforward and even a throwback to games from the 80s/Nintendo 8-bit era, but it doesn’t overstep its bounds and gives you a fun, entertaining game with enough variety levels (some times, you’re shooting down enemies stalking an alley, others you’re taking down groups of thugs armed with bats/4x4s with your martial arts skills, running away from a helicopter, dodging bullets, hiding behind furniture/cabinets/cubicles as you run from one side of a office building floor to another, fighting a boss in a gas-filled room, or against a boss while your friend is hanging on the edge of a balcony as you fight against time to save your friend, etc. etc.) The makers of True Crime, if they don’t improve their execution on their next outing, could learn something from “Rise to Honor,” which is a must-have for Jet Li fans and possibly even for older gamers in their late 20s or early 30s.
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J.B.W. –
A great game for the time period it was created in. It’s one of those memorable classics.
Miketheratguy –
THE SHORT: A free-roaming game similar to Grand Theft Auto but with enough personality and uniqueness to stand on its own. A clichéd storyline and some control issues mar things, but its addictive gameplay and flexible mission style make it worth playing.THE LONG: When this game was released, some unfairly called it a GTA clone. Sure they’re both about grabbing any car that comes along and moving about a large city, taking on missions and causing havoc. But True Crime is definitely different. To begin with, in TC you star as a police officer, and your missions revolve around trying to solve an increasingly complex case. And unlike GTA, your role as a “good guy pushed to the edge” allows you to play as a good or bad cop depending on your actions. Being good (not killing people or attacking innocent civilians, etc) earns you higher rewards that allow the purchase of dozens of upgrades to your character, guns, and cars. But being bad takes away those points, and if you want any of the better stuff you have to work back up. The nice thing about True Crime is that you’re allowed to play both ways, whenever you choose. Street crimes happen regularly, and it’s up to you how you handle every one of them.Similarly unique to this game is the mission structure, which is actually better than GTA. In that series, once you’re on a mission you either fail or succeed, and while there are sometimes more than one place at a time to get missions, if you can’t beat them then you’re stuck to keep trying. In TC, you’re often given the choice to keep playing the storyline even if you fail. On these occasions you’re given an alternate cinema scene and may even have a slightly different next mission. This will eventually usually lead you to one of the more negative endings, but it’s way better than just hitting the wall of a tough mission and playing it repeatedly until you get it right. It should also be noted that, unlike GTA, you can replay any mission in the game at any time.One similarity to GTA is the way these goals are set up. In both games you are introduced to the mission by way of a cinema scene, and then you are given control to access your next goal, usually at your own pace. In both games you’re free to roam around and steal cars or rough up civilians, but this is another instance in which TC is, at least, more flexible than GTA: In this game, events such as driving to a bar, having a fight, then chasing a fleeing suspect are each their own individual events. This means that, with the option to replay a level anytime, if you got killed chasing that suspect you can just replay that part instead of starting over all the way back at square one, the “driving to a bar” segment. And being that the game auto-saves after every successful mission segment, you’re constantly making progress and can pick up where you left off and leave chasing that suspect until after dinner. Some would argue that this makes the game a little too easy, which is true- Vice City and San Andreas are more difficult. But they’re also more frustrating sometimes.Aside from the story, the meat of the game boils down to what you’re doing between missions. Personally this is my favorite part of the game. For one thing, you get a giant scale version of Los Angeles and all its suburbs. I’m not from California but I was stranded on an L.A. street corner at 3 am, and I was able to locate this very intersection in the game, looking very accurate. In this large city, you can pat down citizens for contraband or attack them outright at the touch of a button, or if that’s not your bag then you can wander on foot or in a car and take on the random street crimes. About once every thirty seconds or so, there will be armed muggers to bust, stolen buses to stop, street races to interrupt, and so on. And again, it’s up to you to either do it right (shooting that mugger in the arm) or get some bad cop points (shooting the mugger in the head through the victim’s torso). The freedom to roam and have this power and take on these endless crimes is, in my opinion, addictive thanks to the fluid animation, smooth controls, and unpredictability of each situation. Sometimes that catfight will turn into a full-on gun battle, and again, it’s up to you how to handle it. A stat menu keeps track of your every action, so you can see just how many of those people you frisked were carrying (with a percentage display of how good your guesswork is).Lastly, the game’s presentation. The graphics are pretty good and the animation smooth, even though it’s a couple years old at the time of this writing. There’s loads of dialogue that’s synched up well, though much of it is straight out of B level hard-boiled cop movies. It’s tongue in cheek, but I couldn’t help laughing when an important character leapt in front of me in dramatic slow-mo while yelling “Noooo” and taking a bullet. The sound effects are pretty crisp, but the music is straight-up rap unless you get the Xbox version and use your own soundtrack. The controls are decent (with a much more thorough martial arts fighting system than anything out of GTA) but the camera is almost always a pain. It’s movable, but it almost never seems to stay where you want it as you run around the streets changing directions.In all, if you’re a fan of action games or GTA then you should give this game a shot (Spider-Man 2, by the same team, share some similarities with this game as well). It’s older now so you can find it for ten bucks or less, which at 10-30 hours of gameplay is not bad at all.
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Aaron Price –
I got True Crime Streets of LA for Christmas and for a while I enjoyed playing it.But the down fall with this game is the fact that it fails to hold the fun in playing the game.Where Grand Theft Auto 3 and Vice City keep you coming back for more. True Crime doesn’t really keep that interest, once the missions are over, all you can do is go round searching people and busting peoples butts who may have been just a little naughty.Bikes and Helicopters would have been a great feature which Grand Theft Auto Vice City managed.But a greater array of weapons like rocket launchers and grenades would have made it more enjoyable too.It seems every gaming company is trying to make the next Grand Theft Auto game, a word of advice to the game companys leave it to Rock Star if you however want to a slighty different game and want to play cop instead of criminal then your probably like this game.But this beats The Getway by a mile.I ratedTrue Crime Streets of LA 85%The Getway 50%Grand Theft Auto 3 90%Grand Theft Auto Vice City 99%
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