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CHUMP

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 6 / 8
Date: December 13, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Thats exactly how I feel after purchasing this game
I 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

The True Bomb

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 24 / 61
Date: November 11, 2003
Author: Amazon User

When people heard about true crime they put it down, mainly because they thought it was another company besides rockstar making an vice city clone. Hell NO! This game to me isn't anything near a gta clone. i would tell you if ur expecting a gta style from thid game,but if ur not expecting a gta style get your a$$ out to ur video game store and buy this kick a$$ game

Fun, free-roaming urban action for a cheap price.

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 5 / 6
Date: August 31, 2005
Author: Amazon User

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.

Click,Click,Bang,Bang! Still Shooting!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: December 07, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I went out and rented True Crime, I started playing at 6:30 and stop at midnight! In the game you play as nick cang, an L.A. cop and you go thourgh a seris of levels and opitional street crimes. Once you beat,aresset or kill a crimal you can take there guns. On the why you do things you get the title of good cop,bad cop or great cop. this is the best action/adventure game I've palyed,EVER!

True Crime is True to the Punch

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: December 22, 2003
Author: Amazon User

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 tires

True 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.

Don't compare to GTA!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 7
Date: November 09, 2003
Author: Amazon User

True the people who made this game help create GTA III. This game has its own good qualities. Unlike GTA you don't have to complete the mission the PROGRAMMERS WAY(not all missions) doing what is right or just bustin a cap in the dudes head affects the story line and the endings. Comparing this game to GTA is like comparing super smash brothers to Mortal Kombat

Not ready for market...

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 4 / 5
Date: November 24, 2003
Author: Amazon User

First of all, I apologize to any hard-working game developers at Activision who spent months if not years of their lives working on this game... but whomever did your QA, should be fired.

I rented this game, and I TRIED real hard to give it a full chance, and not to compare it to GTA. Yes, the map is much bigger and yes the game-play is more complex, but MAN ARE THERE BUGS EVERYWHERE!!

For one thing, TWICE in 3 days of playing the game, I ran into a problem of having killed someone but the game had them frozen in some kind of action, so I pretty much was screwed... I couldn't continue because that person needed to be killed in order for the game to continue, so I was stuck in limbo.

Also, the "precision targeting" is completely inaccurate, so sometimes when I shoot someone in the leg while the circle is green it ended up being a head shot and killing them, or the victim if it was a hostage situation. Every time you get hit while in targeting mode it sends your gun to the roof, so its pretty useless when you are under heavy fire.

But I finally put the game down and gave up when I was in a gunfight and used the "human shield" function, and the guy got attached to my players back and then the game speed increased and everyone was in fast motion. If I were in QA, I'd have held the release of this game for sure.

This is a great idea for a game, and overall its well designed, but the gameplay is horrendously poor. I recommend, everyone wait for them to work out the kinks, and maybe the next version will be better.

This Is One Sweet Game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 5
Date: November 30, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Ok, first off, let me say one thing. I am sick and tired of people comparing this game to GTA Vice City. People saying things like "this is not as good as Vice City, so it is horrible and I don't like it." This game is not Vice City. There are NO games out there as good as Vice City. The only game that will ever be as good or better than Vice City is the next GTA. If you are looking for a fun game that gets you hooked, buy this. The cars are awesome and graphics are great. Missions are very fun and the main character is awesome. There is a huge map of LA, so it is kind of hard to get to know your way around, but I do not really mind that. This game is awesome. I play it all the time. Please take my advice and dont listen to these idiots criticizing this game. If they want to compare everything to Vice City, then they can just play that for the rest of thier lives. This is a great game to hold you over until the next GTA comes out. Take a chance with this one!

Good game idea, poorly done

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 5
Date: September 15, 2004
Author: Amazon User

On the X-Box or PS2 I could see where this game could be bearable. The PC version is quite a different story. There is no support for a game pad or joystick, so the only options are keyboard and mouse. The huge map, large assortment of cars and plot mean nothing if you can't control the character or his vehicle.

I have never seen controls in a game this lethargic. If you derive some kind of joy from knocking over trees, street lights, sign posts, newspaper stands and parking meters, this is the game for you. Not to worry, on a straightaway the sensitivity returns ensuring your course is as predictable as the lottery. The camera angles seem specifically design to ignore the subject of importance. Sometimes while apprehending a suspect for no apparent reason, the camera will relocate on the other side of a building. During the timed martial arts progression tests, half the time is spent scrolling the lazy (at full sensitivity) camera to look at the target and align the character. It's not a contest of skill, but a struggle with technical ineptness.

As for any bugs I have had multiple crashes, from menus locking up to sound loops. My system is fully of capable of playing Doom3, Far Cry and Star Wars Galaxies, so I can assure you it falls well within the basic hardware requirements as well as the latest drivers and direct-x. It's a shame, the game looks good, has a bit of freedom to do side missions etc. If it was playable, I'd be playing it. To sum it all up, it's a good game idea, wrapped in technically flawed garbage.

It's Fun But There Are Much Better Games Out There...

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 4 / 5
Date: October 12, 2004
Author: Amazon User

True Crime: Streets if LA is a good game, don't get me wrong. The controls are good, the guns are nice and it was a good idea overall. It's just there are much better games on the market today. It is not better then Grand Theft Auto or Madden or even the Simpsons: Hit and Run. It's just another shooter that seems are overcrowded in the Ps2 genre.

As for the game, you are a dirty cop who doesn't care if he kills a person or two. The cars are somewhat nice and the whole re-creation of LA is pretty good. the missions are basic, kill some people, follow a car etc. etc... It tried to copy Grand Theft Auto, but you can't have a cop stealing cars and not getting into trouble.

As for side missions, being an "enforcer" is very fun. You can hang around and wait for a call of a street crime like a robbery, fighting, bum fights, kidnappings and even some rough hostage situations and you get "points" (which I think are supposed to be money) to buy cars and get new guns. You can also go around and search people and get their drugs and some very nice cool guns.

Overall, True Crime is a good game for any system, but with all the better games out there, it seems like you get lost and don't be interested in it for very long. It doesn't have that addicting factor like Grand Theft Auto and some of the better sports games out there. Good think I sold mine for $30.

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