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Nick kang arrive's at the crime scene

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: June 22, 2008
Author: Amazon User

This was a fun game but it was just a GTA remake in los angelas. This game was fun at first but gotten to a point where it's just like GTA! But i liked it better then GTA cause the picture quality is great and the rest has better view, meaning that GTA has a small view and the picture quality is not that good. This game gotten kinda boaring after i beaten the game, and the storymode was good to kinda strange but good, the people in this game look's weird and you can play as snoopdogg in this game but it really did'nt matter to me if you can play as him but this game was good.

Great graphics.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: April 14, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I am in no way a big video game buff.... I have a PS2 and have only played this a couple times because I don't have much free time to play. But from what I have played the game is fun, and the graphics are really amazing. Oh and the fact that I got a brand new one for 8 bucks from the Amazon marketplace makes it even better!

A game which had potential, instead, was covered with blemishes. It's okay for a GTA mimic.

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: December 29, 2006
Author: Amazon User

In this game your character is a cop named Nick Kang who is very independant and merciless. He is teamed up with a women that he cannot get along with in the EOD. Your job is to chase and track down murderers, drug dealers, and more. In this game, you can choose to be a good cop and bad cop. The more pedestrians you kill, the more your Bad Cop Rating lengthens. The more crooks you arrest, the more Good Cop Rating lengthens.

This decides where you game is going to go. If you pass the missions as a good cop, you can unlock certain mission and being a bad cop can unlock others. You are allowed to have more than one game file, so it is yours to experiment. The game is made up of many small missions you must pass to unlock new ones. Sometimes you can skip ahead if you find one too hard, which is useful. The way the fighting works is, you are engaged in fights with people and whoever's health goes down loses. You can use your gun, and your punches, and kicks to pull off some combos.

The driving is really fun. The car can actually get damaged and you can drive-by while in it. There are street crimes you can solve in between missions to make yourself a better cop and some missions require you to solve them. The sound in this game is pretty decent if you are into Rap music. If not, you don't have to hear it. There are flaws in the game which knock down it's rating. Nothing to do after the missions. All there is to do is re-do the missions. No multiplayer. It's not a good game for when you have company over.

Another flaw is that you are only limited to what the mission tells you to. Some missions are outside which require to drive to a certain place, untimed. You can freeroam at that point. Kill some people. Arrest some people. Drive around. Crash cars. Graphics are decent.

Pros: Good soundtrack ; Mission skipping ; Able to be good or bad.

Cons: Game can feel bland, linear, and limiting at times ; Slo-mo is bad ; Fighting and shooting weren't that well thought out.

Bottom line: This game has a lot of freedom in it, but do not be expecting a Grand Theft Auto.

- Derek S.

I love this game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: December 17, 2006
Author: Amazon User

This game rocks!! I love it!! It's graphics are not that great, but it's fun, the story is a little off, but it doesn't matter the game makes up for it in the missions!! YOU MUST BUY IT!!

TRUECRAP:STREETS OF BALLET

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 10
Date: February 22, 2006
Author: Amazon User

This game and its sequal suck so bad that i threw it to rot and when people ask me if i have got it i say no-as i forget that this game is even mine.ActiVision are usually good at games but-TrueCrime-Is one of the worst ever.Its trying to "combine" The Getaway and Grand Theft Auto-making a s(hitt)y flop of itself.
Grand Theft Auto has two desent clones DRIVER and The Getaway-TrueCrime-hahh-I would rather play krappy old GTA1 on the PS1 than this.
The car phycis suk,the characters suk,the storylines suk,the pedestrians think there hard but me as wimpy Nick kang can just run there Azzes over with a taxi.Even the medicre DRIV3R is like a game TrueCrime prays to be.
Driver is GTAs biggest rival,The Getaway second,Sonic third,mario fourth,.........Oh and TrueCrap 1 millionth.
I mean all Mario has to do to kill Kang is just throw a flower at him and he will start crying and dye!
Oh and LA isn`t really where this game is set-its set in a ballet hall.yep Kang is the most prettiest dancer there!-well why shouldn`t it be-he ran all those hardcore pedestrians over with a taxi-and squashed their faces-so he can win the pink trophy and and play cops and robbers with Tanner,Tommy Vercetti,Claude Speed and Mark Hammond-But he thought it was a game!-They got fed up of him and shoved a grenade down his throat and when he ran his little legs to the EOD HQ the grenade exploded along with that fhat lady and the rest of em.Thats why we don`t play Nick in "Streets Of New York" we play Markus.
So if Nick did survive he should also keep out of LA city
Because thats where Tanner wrecklessly drives like a REAL radical man.and Kang might scream so loud that Tanner get angry and runs everyone over and gets the death penelty by electric chair.So he gets Nicked by Nicky Kang!
Bye.
play DRIVER,GTA,THE GETAWAY but not this!

True Crime Streets of Los Angeles (LA)

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 3
Date: December 17, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This game is one that you can have completed in a short amount of time, and thereofre can become samish. Although this is the case i quite liked it and allways play it myself, a much liked game, you need to be a good virtual driver though hehe. Overall v.good and lots of fun!!

kmf aged 14

does'nt come close to Grand Theft Auto

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: October 22, 2005
Author: Amazon User

True Crime;Streets of LA looked like a nice game,so I decided to rent it.I really had high expectations for this game.I started playing it, and I did enjoy it.

But the missions are the most rubbish,boring and stupid ever.Not to mention the controls.Driving a car was so hard,the camera was terrible.

But the one thing that really bugs me is the feel of the city.The gta cities had such a nice feel,I could go on playing for hours.The solving street crimes was interesting at first,but it soon got boring.

My final thoughts on this game:You should rent it first,like I did,just in case you don't like it.The grand theft auto's were amongst my favourite game's ever,this one is certainly not.

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.

True Crime: Streets of LA

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: August 23, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This is a very fun video game which has every single street in downtown and the western urban area of Los Angeles.

Nicholas Kang Wilson, after suspended from the LAPD, is recruited by the Elite Operations Division to solve reduntant, violent crimes committed by an oriental gang known as Ancient Wu's Triad. The Triad and Russian mob have been laundering money for North Korea.

This game, unlike most video games, boasts a high moral value: If you are a "bad cop" and kill innocents, you loose Good/Bad Cop points. If you attempt to complete a mission but cannot, you can continue through the story. However, not completing every mission (you cannot do a mission differently after failing one) will cause you to progress to the worst or average ending. If you have a good cop status and complete all episodes 100%, you will progress to the Best Ending.

Every 100 points you eran, whether completing missions our solving crimes in Drive-To missions, you receive a badge. A badge can be spent at a 24/7 facility to earn new martial arts, weapon parts and car moves. If you complete a mission, you earn a Bonus Cruisin' where you aquire weapons, cars and grapple moves.

Overall this is a great video game.

NOT AS GOOD AS THOUGHT IT WOULD BE.

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: June 25, 2005
Author: Amazon User

TrueCrime:Streets Of L.A. was not as good as i thought it would be,I thought it would beat Grand Theft Auto:Vice City when it was my favorate there is only 3 games that beat GTA:Vice City and they are GTA:San Andreas,Driver 3(DRIV3R) & The GetaWay 2:Black Monday.Mafia and TrueCrime:SOL.A. are just rubbish compared to these.It still had good points like arresting people and you can get cops after you even though you are a cop just by doing the dirty on the streets lie head shots,killing people,blowing up cars killing police men while they are in persuit and they come with heavy guns.another good thing is the exact same game is on MS XBox and Nntdo GameCube.When it comes to guns its like The GetaWay 1(Which is older and is also a better game you can not hold every gun you find and put them in magic trousers like in GTA games& Driver 3 instead when your gun runs out you drop it and take your pistols out.The missions were boring but all lead to different ends also you could learn some kick butt moves like Karate`.
OVERALL:This game was good but no matck for the GTA,The GetaWay or Driver games
P.S. I heard there is a new game coming out called TrueCrime:New York City thats all i know and its comin` out for PS2,GC & XB i hope that lives to most of the hype and gets it self along the best yet 3 games(GTA:SA,The GetaWay:Blk Mndy & Driver 3)
REMEMBER! rent,lend or temporaly swap any game before buy,even on bestsellers like GTA,Driver or Getaway y` never know you might not like them and this goes for any game thats made.
bye

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