True Crime: Streets of LA (Xbox)

However regardless of price it is still a great game in its own right. It would be an exaggeration to say its better than GTAIII or even as good as GTAIII, but that's not to knock the game, as few games are as good as GTA or Vice City.
The game is played from a different perspective that GTA. In this game you are the good guy, the cop. You solve crimes instead of creating them. That certainly doesn't mean it is boring. Far from it. It is addictive and as it isn't quite as open a game as GTA you are propelled forward by the set story line. You can go off and 'play around' doing things but eventually you will reach the end of each level. In that way it's more of a traditional game than GTA.

Graphically the game is very good, as are the sounds and the dialogue is very good, especially the comments from the lead character. The music is very gangster rap, but it's not too off-putting.

If you have been playing GTA you will find the controls different, but it doesn't take long to get used to and it's definitely worth 15 minutes of perseverance.

If you have never played GTA you will be amazed at how good this game is. If you have played GTA you will still enjoy it.

Over all if you were at all considering this game I would say go for it. At less than 10 it's really impossible to be disappointed.


Stick with GTA   July 26, 2004
 0 out of 3 found this review helpful

True Crime has great potential with a good storyline and a good cast of voice acters.But all this is overshadowed by a cheesy dialogue and poor gameplay.Be safe and stick with GTA.


no, its not as good as vice city... it better!!!   July 23, 2004
 1 out of 1 found this review helpful

this truely revolutionary game sees you as eod agent nick kang, an ex homocide cop who has been called of from suspension to help stop the war going on in the strrets of la. the game has many differnt paths that you can follow giving you true freedom.
blast, fight and drive you way around the city of angels whilst fighting russians chinese and koreans and delving in to nicks fathers shad past. TRUE class


True Crime or True Failure?   July 22, 2004
 0 out of 2 found this review helpful

When I bought this game, a few months back, I always used to think that GTA has brought these 3D action Shoot 'em up games to life, with all the weapons and cars and the pedestrians and then when I saw TC for the first time, this was something alot more different in many senses, yes, the cars were'nt real and yes, the weapons were, but the storyline is the best article I could talk about, because without that, it would be a failure.

You basicly start out new again, after being suspending for god knows what, does'nt say in the intro, so, you start off in the Shooting Range, brilliant! Get those arms and rounds hot and pumping and we are ready to go, massacre and incinerate 10 targets and your in, your badge back, your life back on track. But, for one thing only, them nasty Triads MUST die.

This is where the all action comes through in full effect, walking out to your shiny car with the intigrated siren like you see on Starsky and Hutch, turn that on and rush to the HQ, not a hard task, and this time, your have to rush, foot to floor and we are rocking and rolling, listening to rock and discrimination words and language can be heard from the radio, great! Or not? Not really, the game has no pull on it, you can't get addicted which is bad, because when you do, it's the same schedule, the PS2 goes off and the JoyPad is on the floor smashed up, it's so annoying and not even realistic!

Now your an official Det again, the mission is simple, just kill any law breaking perps and get the praise for it, there is a meter at the bottom of the screen and if you kill any innococent it'll go down into the minuses and you will be phrased and shamed the 'Bad Cop' however, if you kill the baddies you'll be praised and crowned 'Good Cop' everytime you finish and mini-game you will earn points will be increase your cop rating and your badge numbers, and with the badge numbers you can use them for training at the shooting range, combat training, car training, and they all earn you some kind of plus.

The only bad thing I rate against the game is the life-span, it takes about 2 hours to get the boss, him being a dam Martial Arts Genius is going to help the idea and situation, because I was killed within 2 shots of his highly powerful moves, the backgrounds and the building are pretty poor, like you see of Vice City, them black windows when they is nothing in them, square items and sometimes square cars, it's all pretty lame when you get into the game. If and when you kill the General I estimate you will be about 90 and a half years old and the game will be about 1000 years old due to the release of new games everytime you click your fingers, see, I did it and True Crime 500293 came out about 6 seconds after the first!

If you want to buy a very boring, lame and pittiful game which lasts less than a visit to the WC, then this is the game for you, it costs less than a paperclip and acts like one aswell.