Customer Reviews

True Crime: Streets of LA

5 star:		(28)
4 star:		(18)
3 star:		(13)
2 star:		(5)
1 star:		(2)

 

 

About four weeks ago I wrote a review of this game and said how it looks great and that I hadn't played it yet. Now I own it and able to tell you how it came out and rate it. First of all it yes is a Grand Theft Auto KILLER! they where right about saying that. You can absolutely do anything and have alot more fun. The graphics are not as colorful but it is 240 miles of roaming space and it is really that much. I mean to go through every street it would take forever. Here is my review and how I see what is better and worse than GTA 3,and VC.

Graphics 9/10 the game has 240 miles of roaming space and being able to make the graphics look just as good outside as good inside is great. Grand Theft Auto 3 and Vice City are more colorful but they have a trailing shade look behind them. I would give GTA 3 and VC a 8.7/10 for graphics.

Sound is a easy 10/10 The soundtrack is amazing and awsome how you can use it. There is no radio button but your able to play any song you want by a selection just like Tony Hawk series.
The guns are a loud load of fun to here and the car engines are diffrent for each car and same with weapons.

Control 9.4/10 There not bad and there not great there just like Splinter Cells controls. The way this game beats Grand Theft Auto series is in the aiming. You can select what you want to shoot at and not only one but two targets.

Gameplay 10/10 You can choose to arrest people or kill people.
Firing a warning shot or show your badge is how to put people down and arrest them. You get a huge selection of cars from
many of your known brand companys. Just to name a couple Dodge Dakota, Chevy Trailblazer, Ford Mustang, Ford 69 GT, Dodge Viper, Porshe, Dodge Neon, Bus, Ice cream Truck, Street Bike, Taxi, and Cop car.

Shooting 9/10 Just as good as GTA 3, VC but better aiming and more options to shoot.

Fighting 8/10 It can sometimes be hard and long and learning the tricks and finishers might take awhile. Adding wrestling moves is a smart move also. If you want me to put it straight the fighting is like Dead To Rights.

Driving 9.7/10 Oh yeah it is definetly a high point of the game.
You can easily take control of any car and how it drives with a control setup similar to the new Need For Speed Undergrounds.

Running speed frame rates per second 7/10 It has wierd glitches sometimes and some wierd slowdowns but it rarely happens unless you get alot of action going and have a vehicle running. I have had no slow downs on fighting but have had to turn it of because of loading and it making a glitch out of it. Timesplitters 2 runs at a beautiful 60 frame rates per sencond and I would estimate True Crime Streets of LA at about 40 FRPS not bad for a 240 mile city and more live people than GTA 3 or VC.

I would give True Crime Streets Of LA a 9.7 out of 10 in all and would easily say its better than Grand Theft Auto 3 and Vice City. Rockstar im sorry someone has finally stole your fame and fortune and looks like they could do it again. Have fun and I would highly reccomend this game.

My gosh, in all my years... This game seems to take all the elements from GTA and improve upon them in some way.

The story is great. There are multiple stories and different outcomes will occur depending on what you do. The characters in the stories are great also. The voice acting is probably the best i've ever seen in any video-game. Every character has the perfect voice actor. Christopher Walken and that chick from The Fast and the Furious both do voices. The main character, Nick, has a great voice that fits him perfectly. His voice actor also knows how to make his lines actually funny.

As for fighting, some of the best! The camera is magnificent, and I only turn it when I need to(which is rarely). Plus, fighting is not just "Hit x over and over!". You can do combos, tackels, kicks, and punches. They are fun though. As you fight you can destroy things around the room. You can get knocked into some tables or even through a fence! Driving is the same way because you can drive into and through basically anything, which is fun.

Guns rule. I mean, basically the infinite ammo for your basic pistols works well. You will never have to die because you can't find ammo or you run out. There are plenty of upgrades for your guns and ways to improve your gun methods. Pretty soon you will be able to shoot 2 guns in different directions, and shoot precision shots. The coolest thing is shooting the gas tanks of cars. I once shot this car in the back and it flipped over and crushed 2 criminals!

There are quite a few extras also. You can solve crimes happening around the city, and you can check citizens for illegal things. I like just cruising.

The graphics are basically better than GTA slightly. As in, The buildings all look different and the areas are much more realisitic. There aren't real ramps, but your car can flip and stuff. Also, when your car gets shot it will get holes in windows and lose wheels. Another thing, they took 240 square miles of Los Angelos. For those of you that don't know, thats pretty much 15 times the size of GTA, and im going to estimate 5 times the size of the Getaway. The Getaway is kinda like this game, but this game takes place in the USA not in London or whatever.

Basically I would reccomend you buy this game. Its a huge area that lets you see huge skyscrapers, brilliantly done lens flare and far clipping effects, a great atmosphere in the day and night, and of course some of the best voice acting around. Who knows, mabye you will get to know Los Angelos better than someone who lives there.

No it's not as good as GTA.
So, enough said about that.

This game is so much fun!!
I can drive around, doing nothing at all, for hours.
I can fight and shoot anyone I want and run everybody over with a car and it's so much fun!
It has a low moral standard for sure, but I'm not an idiot who thinks this would be cool in real life. In a game world it's fun though.
Ofcourse you can choose your own destiny in this game, being a good cop or bad cop, but the Nick character isn't very likeable to begin with, he's a real jerk. I cannot identify myself with him and therefore I didn't feel commited to be a good cop.

The story is so awfull that it's actually really fun. You listen to the most cheesy and cliché dialogues. I had to laugh really loud when the Chinese guy who Nick fights appears to be his brother. "I thought you had lost it bro" So cliché and crap, but therefore hilarious.

Ok I will summon up the good and bad points:

Good:

- The crap storyline. Good for a few good laughs.
- The driving, which is easy, straighforward and with some cars you can go really fast. Each car has its own way of driving and steering which is fun too.
- The fighting is easy, but it sometimes does require more than simple button mashing.
- The graphics are pretty good, yes Gamecube can do better, but LA looks pretty amazing to me.
- The freedom you have to go anywhere you like.

Bad:

- Nick, the main character, is a jerk. A typical B-movie superhero. But in the setting of the story it works fine.
- Many times "precision targetting" isn't that precise at all.
- "Precision targetting" while driving does slow you down, you'll fail to catch the bad guys.
- Long, very long loading times. There isn't much continuity due to this annoying aspect.
- Sometimes the Hip Hop got on my nerves.

Overall 4 stars, but 5 stars for fun.

This is an awesome game for the Nintendo system. The game is better than GTA in many ways but is lacking in others. Ther is not a wide variety of weapons but it's easy to shoot. The driving is awesome and the freeway is fun. Although, I was disappointed that their were no motorcycles in the game. I think the flying in GTA is too overwhelming. The cool thing is that you are a cop so you can do almost anything you want. The slo-mo is awesome.

I love this game, it's cool just causing destruction, i beat all the missions, so now i just kill innocent people and the cops, and steal cars, my favorite thing is finding a shotgun then shoot at a car and person inside just comes out and bam, they died by the explosion. Best game nintendo has ever, even more good then [...] exclusives for the gamecube like mario.

If you're a big Gamecube fan like me, this is the closest thing to GTA you'll see. The freedom of the game opens up a whole world of things to do. The game features a variety of missions, ranging from escaping the cops to beating up groups of strippers. Another great feature added to the game was the random crime system, which means that when you're driving around LA, the radio dispatcher will explain a crime situation to you and you have the option of pursuing the crime or ignoring it. If you solve it, you get bonus points, which can be used to unlock upgrades at 24/7 training centers, which allow you to upgrade fighting moves, guns, and driving abilities. There are bonus missions where you can unlock new guns, cars, and grapple combos. Besides that, you can frisk pedestrians for guns or drugs. One of the features of the game is that you can choose whether to be a good cop (best ending), okay cop, or bad cop. Each one has a different story line. Every action affects your karma, which determines what kind of cop you are. This game is a must-buy.

This game is totally great. Ignore the comment by the guy who says this is a GTA ripoff, this, game has its own identity, and this game blows GTA out of the water. Seriously, this game looks like LA, and the freeways, beaches, sidestreets, alleys, are all exploreable. I've been gaming since I had a colecovision in 1982. And, I rarely buy games, because there is so many bad ones. Hands down, this is one of the greatest games ever made for a video game system.

I have picked up this game thinking it would be pretty tight, as I am a fan of third person action adventure games. I have a few things to point out as words of warning.
1) The game is good, but not the end all beat all. It's got some entertaining parts I'll admit, but it is not a free floating adventure game where you do what you want or handle adventures in the way you want. The story is linear, with few side-quests. The side tasks allow you to open up new skills and cars, but are not sub-plots all their own.
2) Load Times. This game has an enormous amount of load times. I was almost tempted to get a book. It loads before each cut scene, AND after each cut scene. It loads each mission, and it saves and loads after each mission. Just a warning, you got a lot of waiting ahead of you. I would have given it a better review, but all that waiting is unnecessary. If it doesn't bother you, good for you. But there are a ton of great games on the cube that don't load like this.
3) The graphics are good, but people and things tend to have little hit detection. It's possible to run through cars or objects when some kind of action animation takes over, putting someone beyond your reach when you kick them. Also just a warning, because I was in a fight with some criminals who kept sliding through the wall. I would have to run away for them to come out and fight me. Has happened more than once.
Anyway, it's a pretty good game, but it's not the end all beat all on the cube. If you have the extra money feel free to pick it up. If you only buy one game a month like me, you might want to pick up something else.

t is a great buy the graphics rock it's a bit more on the adult side due too alot of bad crap but who cares roaming L.A. is awsome and fighting crime and going on rampages is sweet and to all you people who think grand theft auto is better than this YOUR WRONG! grand theft auto 1, 2, 3, and vice city suck!.

This game has 3 different modes besides walking around. They are driving, fighting, and shooting. All modes are very well done, but the camera view in shooting mode can be annoyingly difficult to see the direction you want to sometimes. On the gamecube (which is my experience with this game), the controls can become confusing because there are just too many functions, especially because there are 3 modes. And by the way, you can switch the mode at will by pressing a button.

The game area is absolutely HUGE; it takes a long time to drive across the city even in a fast car on the freeway. Yes, all the roads are real and they're all named. And the name of the road you're on is at the top of your screen, while the name of a cross street pops up as you're about to cross it.

Your character, Nick, says a bunch of great one-liners as he performs actions. The missions are more linear than GTA, but there are several alternate paths. And within a mission, when you're on the streets (more than half of the missions), you can wander around for as long as you want and resolve street crimes, or even randomly search pedestrians and find illegal drugs or weapons. Doing these things changes your rating of Good Cop / Bad Cop (depending on how you do them), and gives you points which can be spent for upgrades.
The upgrades come in 3 categories:
1) Weapons: You can get more abilities with your guns and get bigger guns.
2) Driving: You can earn more abilities of what you can do with a car, and sometimes you can do a race to earn yourself a new car (though you can drive any car when you want, but your cars are unique).
3) Martial Arts: You can earn new moves to use in a fight, making your fighting much more effective.

This game has a few minor annoyances (like the camera as described above), but overall it is very fun to play and I would recommend it.