Customer Reviews

True Crime New York City

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3 star:		(1)
2 star:		(0)
1 star:		(3)

 

 

I also had the experience of this game failing to run past the title screen, just before the menu should come up. Thank you Mr, Partsch for letting us know that Activision's customer service is as competent as their product testers. And yes, my computer meets the specs required to play the game so buyer beware!

Don not buy this game. Its full of bugs on the playstation 2 and it wont even run on my computer. My computer will play Half life 2 but this game wont even load the menu without crashing. called up tech support and they will not help me at all. They said its a problem on my side. Well thx so glad i still cant play the game.

I bought this game hoping for something similar to the GTA series. The game crashed my PC the first 5 or 6 times I tried to start it. After lowering my resolution (I have an ATI Radeon X700 card), I was able to start the game.

Unfortunately, it is clear from the start that the game is truly intended for joystick/gamepad users. I'm a mouse/keyboard guy. You move your character around using the standard wsdf keys. The mouse control, however, was barely there. Also, to attack, you have to use the keys on the numpad!!!! How the heck are you supposed to move the character around and fight at the same time?

I believe that most of the problems can be attributed to a very sloppy port of this game from console to PC. On a console, this game might be just fine.

Luckily, I only paid $9.99 for this game.

very fun game!
can be short or long as you like,
violent and silly at the same time
you can follow the story line or just wonder around to be a bad or good police

Reminded me of Max Payne. Only Max Payne was a lot better than this. I can't complain about this one it was fun to play and had me hooked until I finished it.

I found this game so much fun that I kept on playing it for a whole week. But it took me a little while to complete a lot of missions because most of them were very hard. In the first mission you are a gangster looking for an evil person named Kev Lar. I hope you enjoy all your cool games folks. I suggest you should all get this game.

I bought this game thinking it would be like True Crime: Streets of LA. I was right, and I was wrong.

First up, the graphics are FAR better than LA ever thought of being. Go figure, considering this game is newer. It still leaves a lot to be desired, as the scene intros are HORRIBLE. The gameplay actually has better graphics and more realism than the videos! First time I've run into that problem with a game.

Speaking of gameplay, it plays very similar to LA. Fighting is similar (but adds a Karate mode). Shooting is the same, except from the vehicle. The vehicles are the biggest change.

LA has better ability to shoot from the vehicle, but this game has WAY more vehicles. The cars you buy can be modified to "police" versions, even the limousine! Speaking of what you can buy, there is a lot of vehicles for purchase, and the inventory changes depending on what part of town you are in. High class part of town, high class cars. Public Housing sectors have junky cars. This particular company doesn't buy licensing for the vehicles, they just "look" a WHOLE lot like cars you know. The Skyline GTR R34, Lamborghini Murcielago, the aforementioned Lincoln Towncar, Ford GT, Honda Civic, 67 Ford Mustang, 70 Hemi Cuda, etc. You'll notice that just like LA, there are tuner versions of the import cars, and if you buy that car at the dealer, you can convert it to the tuner version AND make it a police car too with the push bumper, lights, and siren. The same goes for the old hotrod cars, you can buy stripes and a supercharger sticking out of the hood, and add police option. No two cars drive the same, and the Lamborghini and Ford GT fight mighty hard for the "best" car to get. The dealerships are located on the map, and there are several of them. Whatever you buy goes in the police garage, so anytime you go to a police kiosk or HQ you can change cars.

In this game, you have to go to a kiosk to get paid. You also can either turn in your collected evidence, pawn it at a pawn shop, or use it to plant on people for more arrests. Everything costs money, except of course when you commandeer a car! You can also walk into just about any business and either buy stuff, or coerce the owner into paying you for police protection. And if you're feeling froggy, you can just trash the place.

There are a lot of missions in this game, and it doesn't follow the "chain" thing like LA had. This one just throws them at you randomly, and sometimes you will have as much as four things going on at once, and they are all over the city. Most of it does not have a time limit though, so that makes life easier. The cool thing is that the only way to get to 100% is to complete all missions, but the uncool thing is that to do that, you have to clear the ENTIRE city of crime. It's 20 precincts that you have to turn from red or orange to green. It is very time consuming.

There is one huge downside to this game, and that is the language. You can't turn it off, and it is 24/7/365. No kidding, I'd say probably 1 of every 10 words you hear in the actual gameplay of the game is steady cussing. Bad cussing. So much so that it should have been rated worse than M. Not to mention you can literally shoot people's arms and legs off, and when cars blow up, they typically dismember somebody. No way no how is this a game for a child, not even with all sound disabled. About one of every 5 people flips you the bird. Even Priests do it. Totally unnecessary.

Basically, if you liked the first one, you'll like this one. More fighting, more shootouts, more of you being heavily outgunned and outmanned, more cars, more to do. Too bad it's just way more violence and language than the first one had.

As my title say, this is only for the people who plays and like the game true crime, streets of L.A.
First off all, i didn?t hve any problem in the instalation of the game. P4, 2.4, 1 giga RAM, Nvidia 6200 256 Mb.
In the first level you take the role of a young ganster, looking for revenge. This leves is a tituorial one, and show you what to do to progress in the game. This is a very good idea. After you kill all your enemies, one inspector ofers you help to become a police oficer. In the nex section, you have to pass some tests, and also, the game tells you what to do to advance. How to drive a car, how to figth, and how to use weapons.
In this game, the problem of the fights is a little resolve. Noew you kind of disapered of the monitor, and can look at your enemies. You have a diferents kind of hits, some whit your hands and dome whit your feet. Also there is a auto lock when using a gun, and this hepls you when you are surounden whit enemies. You only hace to press a button, and shot. The auto lock, chosee the enemie in front or near you, forget the problems of L.A., when the auto lock chosee the enemie far from you, even if you have one in yours eyes.
Alspo new is the ability to chosee the car you want, the eweapons, the clothes. There are a variaty things to buy. To do that, you have to do some things like arrest people, kill them or more thing out of the law, like sell drugs to the people in the streets and not given to the police.
Of ciuyrse this is a game not for kids, look out, there are drug dealers, prostitues, and a lot of violence in this game.
The graphics are a litlle beter than L.A., but not much. One problem is thar every people in some streets of N.Y. are the same, like all of them are wearing a uniform
The controls, as i aready said before, is a little beter, because you have one level which teach you how to play. Of course, you can change your controlers, but the way there are, it?r fine to me.
The sound is, for me, the best part, because there is a lot of god music in it. Sorry, but there are some groups, which i do?n?t kwnow, but the sound is great.
The A.I., is a lot beter than in L.A., because this time the people don?t stay there if you want to arrest them. This time, if you take your time to come for them, they run, and you have to chase them. In N.Y. it?s more easy to defeat and old laydy who comits some crime, and the fihgths aren?t to long. This is more real, it?s more easy to beat and old laydy, than to defeat a ganster or and arm criminal, who put all the resistance they have to evade the capture.
The strets and graphics of N.Y. are very well representated. I never benn in N.Y., but the streets don?t looke to bad. When you are driving, an arrow appearce tho tell you the name and the way the nex streets is. Of course, betwen misions, you can drive freely for N.Y. and try to arrest people, and obtaind more mony, to buy a new car, more amo, and more clothes.
All, in all, this is a better game than L.A., and, if you are fan of the series, buy the game right now, if not, rent it first, and if like, buy it.

ENJOY.