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Better than GTA!!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 5
Date: December 07, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This game is better than GTA:SA by a little bit!Unlike the 1st True crime, you can swim and you can go into stores like gun shopes, banks, offices, clubs, the police department and more! Also you can search trunks. You can even eat!!! You can buy cars from dealerships and buy guns from gunshops. And better street crimes are available. You can take subways and taxis around the city too. And you can ride motorcycles too!!!!!!!!!!!! You can also change and buy clothes! Overall this game is way better then TC: Streets of LA and is almost better than the whole GTA series!If you love True crime and enjoy playing GTA, buy this game immediatly.

better than GTA...but ONEEE PROBLEMMM...

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 4
Date: February 25, 2006
Author: Amazon User

its fun to just turn this game on and fool around in the environment. the city looks\feels JUST like being in New York (especially Harlem) and it is HUGE. frisk people for illegal contriband, drive around listening to music or stop in the MANY restaurants and get something to eat to restore health. i myself love the shooting scheme where when you push down the right joystick, things slow down so you can target better. excellent shooting effects as well. best game to come out yet...

THE ONLY TRUE PROBLEM THAT I HAVE WITH THIS GAME IS THAT CARS APPEAR INFRONT OF YOU WHEN YOU LOOK TO THE SIDE!! i like to drive around and just gaze at the perfect automobile i am in from every angle...only to switch back to the normal angle to find myself crashing into a car that WAS NOT THERE before. i did a test to see if the cars did infact APPEAR out of nowhere...i switched the view to the side for a split second and switched it back...and low and behold..a car that was not there had appeared out of nowhere in front of me while i was driving. when your trying to keep your car looking nice...and cars appear out of nowhere and make you crash and ruin it...it sucks alil bit :|

if you can get past this small problem, youll enjoy this game alot. i played it more than i did GTA:SA...

iLL .

Great Game

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

I enjoyed the game and thus give it a perfect score because it kept me going for months even though i beat the game 6 times. I enjoyed the game a lot despite all the bugs and glitches. It's created with the real look and feel of new york city. Despite all the praise though the game really did frustrate me with all the bugs and things. Like on the Shadow Tong case it took me forever to knock Tommy off the crate thing. But overall loved it! I hope the come ou with a third TC.

Just Like GTA is that bad?

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 6 / 6
Date: November 30, 2005
Author: Amazon User

So many of the game reviews are picky. One of the biggest complaints about this game has been that it is the same old thing. Just like Grand Theft Auto. WHen was being like one of what is considered one of the best games ever been a bad thing? That said, if you don't like violence or profanity, avoid this game at all costs. It has both in spades. The game is very similar to the whole GTA vibe. Lots of free roaming action, lots of violence to innocent people, lots of what people loved from GTA. YOu can get more details from other reviews. The truth is if you are a churchgoer, avoid this game, it will do nothing to improve your spirituality. If you love GTA you love this game.

Excellent Game

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: December 05, 2005
Author: Amazon User

True Crime: NYC is a great game, with tons of stuff to do and many elements that breathe life into the city. The storyline is actually only a minor fraction of the game, the real fun comes from driving around the city, doing the street crimes and discovering all the different stores around the city. There are car shops, music stores, dojos, and gun shops spread around the city that offer different cars, songs, fighting styles, weapons and other clothing.
Don't like driving around? Take a cab or ride the subway. Solve the crimes throughout the city and watch how the buildings and trees reflect the changes. You can kill, arrest, stun, frisk, interrogate or extort people, using different weapons and skills you acquire throughout the game.
Unlike GTA, in this game the whole city is actually filled with life.
Many people rented this game for a day and complain that it's just another GTA. I think that's because they did not spend the time to discover all the different things and activities in the city.
The graphics are great too. The city is full of details. There is a day/night cycle, weather effects, reflections on the ground and even litter flying around. All sorts of different cars and a bunch of street objects which are all breakable.

What's not to like?

Good fun but not for kids.

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: December 03, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Many people knock this game series because it is like GTA. I, on the other hand, like it for this exact reason. It has been some time since the last GTA was released and this is a nice alternative.

In the dark shadows of the city, only you can decide your fate.

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: February 01, 2006
Author: Amazon User

True Crime: New York City Score: 8/10
True Crime: New York City is the second entry from Activision into the world of cops and robbers. A sequel to the 2003 True Crime: L.A... It's a gritty surreal world created in the likeness of New York City. In TC: NY you play Marcus, a young man from the streets who starts his life as a thug, but tries to turn it around by becoming a police officer in the NYPD. And that's were you come in. It's your job to guide Marcus through his new profession and help him decide if he wants to truly follow the path of the law, or just bend it to his advantage. In the dark shadows of the city, only you can decide your fate.

Graphics- 8
Graphically this game is very well done. From the cars to the buildings you really get a feel for New York City. With its dark corners, constant traffic, and its colorful occupants, it's all here. Everything is done quite well in TC: NY. The cars look great. They take damage as they should; everything is very high detailed, right down to the brake pads to the wood paneling on the dash board. The building, while a bit repetitive, do look like they should so that's good. The people look good, with the main characters looking great. And you can constantly change Marcus's clothing, so that helps a lot. Even the weather looks really nice, as in rain looks like rain, and wet roads, well they look wet.

Game play- 10
The game play in TC: NY is were this game shines and "oh" how bright it shines. Since you play a cop, you pretty much have all a cop would have at you disposal. So you can fight street crime, as in arresting hookers, dissolving riots, searching cars, chase car thieves, pull people over, frisk random people, heck you can ever write traffic tickets. And as I said before, this is both a good cop and a bad cop game. So you can also shake people down, sell off evidence, take bribes, beat down suspects, and generally just make a complete nascence out of your self while burning down the town. All this while trying to solve major cases and taking down normal street crime. Plus if you get bored there are other things like street racing and fight clubs to entertain yourself with. There is a major amount of things to do in this game

Sound- 7
Sound wise TC: NY is good, but nothing super great. The sounds of the city are great and most of the music id good, it's just not perfect. As in the music selection is pretty big from hip hop and rap to rock and techno, it's all here for you. The gun's all sound good and the traffic is dead on. But the pedestrians only have maybe 10 different things to say and about 5 voices doing them all,, so that gets a bit repetitive after awhile. Plus the in game cut scenes sound is based of the music volume. So if you turn down the music, next big cut scene will be turned down too. The game gets a huge boost from its all star cast though. We're taking Avery Waddell, Christopher Walken, Laurence Fishburne, Mickey Rourke, heck it even has Traci Lords were can you go wrong. The sound is great and all, but it could have been better.

Control- 8
The controls of this game are a bit rough, while they work fine; it's a lot to take in. The game allows for total freedom and the controls try to mimic that feel. There are multiple controls depending on what you're doing, driving or walking. On foot you've got buttons for fist fighting, gun play, object interacting, taking cars, flashing your badge, changing up fight styles, lock on, and all the good stuff. Then they through in a few button commands for the cool things. Like double tapping the jump button lets you do this neat little slow motion gun dive. Or holding the block button then taping grab allows you to counter an enemies attack. Same thing goes for driving. You get a gas, break, e-break, lock on and trigger buttons. Plus as before you get neat combo buttons like holding brake and gas lets you do a burn out or taping brake twice while holding a direction let's you do a complete 180. All in all great controls once you get accustomed to them.
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Overall- 8
This is one of the best games out on the market to date. From the sheer freedom it allows, to the star studded cast, Christopher Walken and Laurence Fishburne people! Even Mariska Hargitay from Law and Order is in this one and they all do a perfect job with the voices. The pure fun had in this game is right up there with the best of them. Following the extremely well written dialog and story or just smashing it up in the town, TC: NY delivers. Of all sequels to come out as of late this one delivers on all angles and over shadows its predecessor in all ways. No one should miss out on a game this fine, if Oprah rated games, this would be at the top of the list, that's how good this game truly is.

Not That Bad

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: October 03, 2006
Author: Amazon User

People are really ripping into this game, but I actually really like it. There are definitely some glitches but that tends to happen in a huge open world game like this one. Even GTA is not completely glitch-free. It does feel like they released the game too soon, without proper testing, but it is still fun. The learning curve is a little steeper than with GTA but once you get it figured out, there is an enjoyable game here. It's kinda cool to play the good guy for a change, but you can always go rogue if you want...anyway if you like GTA and you have some patience to learn the control scheme, this is a good game at a bargain price. You can definitely spend many hours wandering around New York busting perps; crimes happen all around you in real time - not like GTA where you have to go 'get a mission' in order to make anything interesting happen. For this reason alone, the game world feels more alive and exciting. I say buy it.

New York C-C-C-C-C-C-beeeeeeeeeep-CRASH!

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: May 20, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I'll start by saying that True Crime NYC is the first console game that I can remember since the Sega Master System days that actually crashed my console. New game disc, 2005 model Xbox with no read errors or other problems; this is simply a horribly broken piece of software.

What is so sad about TCNYC is the clear attempt to make a great game. The programmers were trying to do something big here, what with the interesting storyline, the depth of the fighting engine, detailed building interiors, on and on. But they failed spectacularly at almost every attempt.

To the first major failure: an apparent lack of understanding of how to program software within the limitations of the hardware. The game simply tries to render far too much during driving for even the reasonably powerful Xbox. Framerates sieze up every block or two, and this led to my first complete system crash within ten minutes of play. Disturbing. I can only imagine how unplayable this is on the less powerful PS2. The driving control scheme relies on "special move" buttons to perform stunts; a pretty good indicator that the programmers had no idea how to build a working car physics engine. The awful control scheme doesnt even include analogue gas/brake functions, which would have been perfectly fine on the trigger buttons (GTA 2 did this with the DREAMCAST controller almost ten years ago). Rolling through NYC in a jet-black unmarked 4.6 Crown Vic Interceptor should feel cool, but it just feels crummy.

The on foot engine is acutally an improvement over GTA's, at least until running or fighting. While the fight sequences could have been a saving grace, the ridiculously complicated Street Fighter-style button combos make it miserable. Each special move button results in a pre-rendered animation sequence that feels clumsy and is just as likely to leave your face in the fist of your enemy as have the desired consequence. A simplified scheme with fewer "special" moves and improved response time could have made this the nicest fighting engine in any open-world game to date. But it isn't.

The city itelf, while detailed and often well-lit at night, just doesn't have the character of Liberty City. Perhaps due to the lack of any verticality in the landscape (no bridges, hills, or even peaks and valleys in roadways), the city feels dull and lifeless after a few hours of driving. And strange glitches in environment lighting (car lights flicker on and off) and collision detection evaporate any sense of realism. Not to mention awful behavior programming for pedestrians which turns every NYC resident into a Tourette's victim.

The story is initially interesting, although the foul language used as "dialogue" crosses the line from shocking to just plain bad writing. Unfortunately a horrific glitch in the volume balance means you wont hear 90% of the game's cutscenes. There must have been some evil, angry, vindictive person in charge of testing this game. You just can't screw up this bad accidentally.

The one element that really stood out as a positive was the use of NYC's precincts as controllable strategic elements of the overall map. By apprehending criminals (who commit a wide variety of rather creative crimes) in a precinct, you can gradually clean it up and gain respect and rank within your squad. While it's not much more than a nonessential side mission, I found it gave me a sense of control and accomplishment that the paint-by-numbers story mode lacked.

Unfortunately, a few unique concepts arent enough to save TCNYC from its abominable technical problems. Because the developers tried to do so much and occasionally succeeded, I can't say it's a completely bad game...but due to all the glitches it's certainly a failure.

Pretty Much WORTHLESS..

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 4 / 9
Date: November 20, 2005
Author: Amazon User

True Crime New York....I actually just rented it tonight, played it for 30 minutes, and repeatedly said the phrase "this is gay". For everyone that found "streets of L.A." to be a pretty decent experience probably will not like this crap. From the get-go, it feels solid and very intense, possibly worth the time. My mind soon changed when I got into the game. I know it's New York and traffic jams are common, BUT COME ON!! You can barely run without smacking against a friggin car!! I mean I realize 'L.A.' had it's fair share of bugs to make it not great, but this is just lame. I am by no means a Grand Theft Auto fan at all, but they completely stole the concept from San Andreas and threw a new name onto it. that's all I have to say. Depending on your preferences it may be worth a rent, but i strongly urge you to not spend your cash on this pile.

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