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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
D. Mok –
Aside from the obvious Grand Theft Auto comparisons, this game reminds me of a recent Activision game I played — X-Men Legends. While their playability and quality are generally okay, both contain frustratingly crappy points that seriously chip into your enjoyment.True Crime is so much a Grand Theft Auto clone that accusations of imitation are futile — if that is a problem for you, you shouldn’t be considering this game in the first place.The pros:- good audio and visual detailing. Pedestrians talk in a variety of characterizations, and their responses to your actions are pleasingly diverse.- Angelenos take note: The geographical details of Los Angeles are very impressive. They obviously used a real L.A. map down to street names. In the game, I drove through two areas of L.A. I’ve lived in, and they nailed every single major street name (with the requisite modifications, “Street” for “Avenue”, etc.). While non-L.A. denizens won’t appreciate this point as much, Angelenos will get a massive extra kick out of this — they’ll be able to get around town without using a map.- Michelle Rodriguez provides voice work. Enough said.- I tend not to like driving games, but the driving engine in this game is simpler and a little easier to grasp. And I think it was wise that the designers chose to forego many of the narrow side streets, widening them to accommodate game mechanics. Too many narrow streets was one thing I didn’t like about Grand Theft Auto III, and True Crime’s street design makes getting around less of a pain, thus inviting you to more readily explore the city design.- The radar is a lot less confusing than GTA III’s, so it’s easier not to be confused while driving.- Good array of weapons.- The game keeps you in the know about how many story branches you’ve missed or acquired, and permits you to replay missions any time you please. Also, you’re given the choice to skip many missions and continue the story. That’s heavenly — it means if you’re not good at certain types of missions, you still have a game to play.Now the cons:- As in X-Men Legends, the camera is abysmal. Activision somehow feels the need to make the camera a physical entity, and oftimes it will spin to behind a wall and refuse to move. I don’t know why Activision always lets the game override your camera control (right analog stick), as in X-Men Legends, but this makes for some incredibly frustrating situations especially when you’re fighting. No player likes getting shot to pieces just because the game camera feels like being stuck at an angle that prevents you from seeing your enemies.- The auto-target is crap as well. Sometimes you’ll get enemies coming after you, but for some inexplicable reason they and their cars will end up in between houses, blocked off by a fence or a short wall. And for some reason, you can’t shoot through wire fences (?). However, since auto target can’t be stopped, if you have an enemy trying to shoot you from behind a fence, you’ll be stuck aiming at him whether you like to or not, and unless there’s another target to switch to, you’ll forever be doing circles around an unkillable enemy. Beggars the old question: Did they actually bother to test this?- The hand-to-hand fighting system is boring and will give you Carpal Tunnel Syndrome. Why? Enemies are blocking 95 per cent of the time, and breaking their “blocking stance” is a matter of luck, not skill. You basically hit the buttons as fast as you can and hope they unblock in time for you to connect.- The stealth missions are unengaging, and the controls seems to gel up during these missions. You can hit the “stun attack” button and somehow not connect with an enemy one step away from you. And the “tailing” missions, where you have to follow enemy cars not too close but not too far either, are overlong, forcing you to whirl round and round to follow an enemy car that does ferris wheels all over town.- Highways have good, realistic access ramps, but not enough exits. I checked against the highways I knew in real life — they got the entrances right but not the exits. Why?- This…is…one…buggy…game. I’ve owned it for a week and only played it for about three days, but it’s frozen at least a dozen times by now. And as one internet user complained, the “manual target” function often fails to respond, which makes certain missions (eg. the “sniper” finales) unplayable.- The manual target doesn’t work well even when it’s available to you. When driving and shooting at the same time, you’re required to co-ordinate about five buttons at the same time to shoot at enemy tires and gas tanks. Feels like you need octopus limbs to pull off. And having to hold down fire for manual target to kick in is a drag. Grand Theft Auto III, Syphon Filter and even Thirteen had better manual-target controls.- Horrible, drawn-out, amateurish voice acting from Christopher Walken. Just shut up already!As with X-Men Legends, there’s enough fun to be had here to warrant three stars. But I can’t help thinking that many of the above issues are easily fixable. I just hope that the strengths prevail and the problems alleviate come time for True Crime 2.
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P.F. –
Streets of ny was so much better. I wish I would have not bought this game
Cassandra –
Throwbackkkkk! Bought this to play with my PS2 and it is exactly how I remembered it to be from Elementary/Middle school. I loveeeeee!
Y Chromosome 99 –
The alternative routes and intros to the story is a welcome. Unlike the next title you cannot go into businesses and stores,plus only ONE compilation of music plays through the radio. If you don’t like rap/hip hop then prepare to suffer during driving sequences. I don’t mind that type of music but I love variety. Thank goodness it’s not like that in the next title!! Good for a laugh WITH the game instead of AT it as Nick Kang’s dialog is entertaining.
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Mr. Boom-Bastick –
Fun to play old games, worked as expected.
Leslie Trippy –
My son loves this game! I bought it for him for Christmas last year and he plays it all the time.
Chris Mahfouz –
My buddy loves the GTA games, so when this game out he had to get. He didn’t like it that much, so he bought it over to my house. At first I hated the game to, but after playing it some more I loved it. The controls seem bad the first you pick them, but like most games if you give them time there fine. The missions are not as good as GTA, but when it comes to just joy riding True Crime is much more fun. And as always the slow-mo dive rocks. If your sick of cops coming after you every time you hit some one, you’ll have a hell of a time with this game. Give True Crime a chance and you well like it. Can you handle True Crime? Come on get up let me see your bruises.
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Adam Williams –
I was blown away by the first time I played this game. I like the way everything handled(controls, story, gameplay). I really like how you can go after bad guys as you are driving to your objective. The voice acting for the main character is just funny. I can see this game turned into a movie.The graphics are pretty good. All in all, it’s just a fun game to play. I’m glad to have unlimited ammo for the main character’s gun. One reviewer said that was dumb becuase it was unrealistic. C’mon guy, this whole game is unrealistic and with most video games out there.You should buy this game. The chase scenes are fast and the game is smooth to play(storyline wise).
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Brian –
When I saw this game, I thought it was a GTA type game. But when I bought it, I found out it wasn’t. It’s totally different. People are asking, “how is fighting a dragon ‘True Crime'” well I’ll tell you. If those losers bothered to play ahead, the would realize that he was dreaming. People these days!Lets compare:GTA:-You can only chase people down in cars, barely any foot chases-No slo-mo stuff-When you get on a Vigilante mission you are the only one chasing the car-No grappling, only punching and kicking.-No Civil Unrest-No weakness points on cars, only flat tiresTrue Crime:-Cars chases, and foot pursuit-Slo-mo-Sometimes you can join a pursuit where there is already a pursuiing car-Great fighting engine, with neat grapples and realistic moves.-True Civil Unrest meter, so people will come after you when it reaches a certain point, whereas in GTA, you have to put in a code to have groups of people after you.-Tire popping, gasoline tank weakness (hint, hint, explosion)These facts and more prove that True Crime is true to the punch. Mind you I am a fan of both franchises, so I am not bashing GTA, I am just stating the facts. The GTA games are longer, but to advance to the next missions, you need to beat every single one, but with True Crime you never need to repeat a mission if you don’t want to.True Crime is the True Game of the year.
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Tsanche –
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 exploreThe Bad-Main character is unlikeable at first-Annoying Camera Angles-Missions are too simpleThe game overall is pretty decent. You’ve got a lot of freedom to enjoy and a huge map to explore. A great experience.
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