True Crime Streets of LA
by Activision Inc.
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Video Game Reviews of True Crime Streets of LA
Customer Review: Didn't live up to the hype.
Summary: 3 Stars
Yes, rent it first. If I could, I'd give it 2.5 stars because that is all this game is....flat average. It does have replay value, but there are many MANY flaws. First off, the hand-to-hand combat system is possibly the worst I've ever used, the overall control setup is extremely cumbersome, the diologue stinks, and the game is just too short. If one chooses to simply play through the story, the game could be over within two hours. This is really just a good rental. I actually played it for the whole time that I had the game, which makes it worth the $5.00 at the rental shop. The feature of solving random, optional street crimes also provides to the gameplay experience, but other games have pulled off the genre in a much better way. If you want excellent hand-to-hand combat and you have the original Max Payne for PC, there is a free Kung-Fu download which is extraordinary. If you don't have the game, try out Dead to Rights. The shooting system and hand combat are much more fluid. Wait.....did i mention that the Bullet Time setup in True Crime is horrible? The free aiming system that was available in both Max Payne games isn't there for Bullet Time in True Crime. Instead of simply slowing down for your dive and quickly rotating your aim, you must use the right analog stick to switch who you are aiming for. The right analog stick aim switch only works half the time by the way. It's frustrating because you can freely spray your opponents with bullets like you can with other mostly run-and-gun shooters.
Being able to update Nick Kang's, the main character, equipment and fighting combos is a nice feature. It makes things just a tad bit more interesting.
With an appropriate rating of Mature, there is tons of vulgarity in the diologue. The people on the street do carry on coversations and will respond in certain ways to Nick depending on his Good Cop/Bad Cop rating. If you run in to a few people with your car, be prepaired to be sworn at heavily. The S-Bomb is quite possibly the most used word in the whole game. So don't play this game with the kiddies around.
Driving is probably the most fun part about the game. The targeting system while driving actually works rather smoothly, especially for being the first game (I'm pretty sure) to feature a simultanious driving and shooting experience. Switching into the precision-aim option while driving slows things down and allows you to shoot specific areas of an assailant's car, such as tires and gas tanks. Outside of precision aim, the one good thing about the targeting system in this game is the auto-lock on the car that contains the perpetrators which Nick is trying to catch. But be careful, people and other automobiles are infamous for diving into your bullet path and you will frequently kill pedestrians and blast the tires of innocent drivers. Heck, maybe even a gas tank here and there.
One fact about this game that will probably raise mixed feelings is that this game is really never difficult or frustrating. The sneaking missions get extremely boring, but otherwise everything plays out in a simple manner. The advantage of the very short story mode is that it does keep the action from being repetative. About that story mode, there are 3 possible different endings...and all together, the game is still extremely short. After the games is finished, the nice things is that you can go back to anywhere in the game, weilding your new gear and sweeping criminals off of the street as mercilessly as you so please.
The amount of hype that went into this game encouraged many to purchase the game, and this game certainly didn't live up to it. When I rented the game, I had high expectations about the much acclaimed hip-hop game soundtrack. That had to be the worst hip-hop I have ever heard in my entire life. All the creators did is pick up the most vulgar hip-hop that they could find and put it in this game. The soundtrack is a deep insult to what hip-hop is supposed to be. True hip-hop fans will be disappointed, and people who already hate popular hip-hop will be adding a little extra morter in their Berlin Wall against the style of music.
If you want a chaos-ridden driver-shooter, the GTA series is probably a better fix. But if you prefer to be the good guy that is causing absolute entropy, then try this game out. You will find replay value in it's free-roaming style, but there are much better games out there that do a lot of things much better.
Customer Review: Pretty good but really short...
Summary: 3 Stars
The game was great and I loved the huge city and limits, you can go anywhere in LA and that was probably the only thing good about it. I rented it, beat it in five days without using cheats or even a strategy guide. Beat all the levels, even the alt endings. The only part I liked was the level where you just drive around doing whatever you want, the only problem is that it takes forever to become the bad guy and you can't just have fun once in a while by trying to run away from the cops, but instead you are the cop, which I don't mind, but they also make the criminals way too easy to catch and it's just ridiculous. It's also to random since I try frisking somebody who was running away, accidentally frished an old lady, and what did I find? A grenade launcher. The driving is awful too, one of the worst driving engines I've ever seen. If they made a better driving engine and soundtrack for the game, maybe I would consider buying it. The only good part of the game is the hand-to-hand combat. The fist fights are the most entertaining part of the game, everything else is just too easy and gets too repetative too fast.I say you should rent this game before you buy it, you'll probably be disappointed like I was...
Customer Review: Awseome Game, maybe 2 short?
Summary: 4 Stars
So what it's not better than GTA, its still really tight. The driving controls are a bit frisky but you'll get used to them. The camera annoys the crap out of me. But, the only other flaw is that theirs not actually 100 missions. Their are lots of movies which are cool, but lets play the game.The kung-fu will get repetitive. Rounding up this game is tight and should efiantly be a keeper. P.S. dont expect this game to be as good as GTA, youll' get pretty P.O.' D
Customer Review: good but overrated
Summary: 3 Stars
i got this game a few months ago and i completed it in a few weeks and aint picked it up since. i found some of the missions in it a bit repttive and i got frustrated with alot of them as well but overall it is a good game that is fun but u would probabbly be better borowing this game of a friend rather than buying it in my opinionCustomer Review: Kick-ass martial arts/action hybrid
Summary: 5 Stars
True Crime was the game back in fall, 2003 which everyone believed to be the next GTA clone. Truth is, the driving in this game feels familiar if you've been playing GTA3 and Vice City to death. The story of the game puts you, the player, as Nick Kang--a cop whose main job in the game is to bust and kill, and to solve his father's murder. The good cop/bad cop meter is one of those factors that keep True Crime and the GTA games separate. This also makes way for alternate endings. You don't get the same ending as a good cop if you're a bad one.LA is so huge--free-roaming in over 200 square miles also never gets old. You can learn to fight people John Woo style and take people as human shields. Arresting criminals raises your good cop meter--and killing them raises your bad cop meter.
Mission after mission, True Crime keeps going like no other game. The game's strong point is its branching storyline--and added to which, if you don't like rap music--you're going to outright despise the game's soundtrack. The voice acting is better than expected, and the graphics are incredibly realistic and smooth as silk.
To set things straight, there are no motorcycles, no helicopters and certainly no speedboats. If you can learn to accept the fact that LA isn't the same as Vice City or Liberty City, there is no reason why you shouldn't enjoy True Crime: Streets of LA.