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XGD > Xbox > True Crime: New York City
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Reviews Guess who has the worst game of the year award?, April 10, 2006 Rating: 3.0/10 By Mitch Guess who doesn’t learn from their mistakes? If you were hoping the makers of True Crime: Streets of LA, you’re basically flat out of luck. It’s games like this that really get me in the mood for hurting people, not because it influenced me too, just because I’m really pissy I wasted some time of my life. I want my 30 minutes back. That’s right, my half an hour. It took me that long to realize I was playing True Crime: Streets of LA, except for the fact that it’s set in an equally confusing New York City and the character is black. I’m not racist, but it doesn’t take a genius to see which game is trying to rip off GTA: San Andreas the most.
TC: NY is just as bizarre and cheesy as its original was. Ridiculous humor, ugly graphics, and most of the, the most unrealistic and out of the world driving specs I have ever encountered in a video game. To help get this point across, the Simpons: Hit and Run is about 20 times more realistic than the True Crime series.
This time around, aside from the fact we’re in New York, we are given the identity of Marcus Reed, a gang banger turned cop in the Big Apple. Basically, the same exact storyline follows Marcus Reed as it did Nick Kang from Streets of LA, except this time we’re hunting down the killer of a “mentor” rather than a father. What a big, whopping surprise. We’re now doing everything all over again, in the same fashion. The loose cannon cop is back off his chain, set into a crappy free roaming city to take out bad guys one at a time to get closer to our objective.
Right away you’ll notice we’re actually doing everything over and over again. We run in, guns blazing, duel wielding two unlimited ammo pistols, shoot 40 people, and question a witness. This is how every mission ends: question a witness, move on, and kill some people along the way. It’s extremely repetitive, and even more annoying because it has a lot to do with driving along the way.
Oh man. The driving.
I’m dead serious; True Crime would be a lot better off it had some sort of spectacular Taxi or sprinting system, because trying to drive on these streets is an extreme hassle. Before I realized I was using the same system as Streets of LA, I sped into my top speed in three seconds, killed eight people and smashed into a telephone booth. On the way to my destination, I busted a couple two-wheelers and did a few back flips, right before I jumped out of my car at full speed to cut slap up a few criminals. The same mini games exist here as they did before. As we’re driving, we’ll get the occasional call to go solve street crimes, involving the wackiest and bizarre antics I’ve ever heard of. Chinamen arguing over chicken, diseased hookers battling it out in front of police stations, and more. I also find it very convenient to shoot out a drunk drivers gas tank and cause him to incinerate among burning embers rather than just pull him over, but other people may feel a bit different. Not me.
Hand to hand combat is probably the only decent part of the game, as it was before. There are some various moves we can learn to beat old women up on the street for no apparent reason, along with some neat running attacks, like clothes lining some crack dealer who just happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. There’s also a range of melee weapons, such as clubs and knives, but they don’t make much a difference really. Marcus can move just as fast with a bat as he can with his fists, so, your choice is limited to and based on whichever one “looks more cool.”
The soundtrack, which kicks in when we hop into a crappy car, is just as annoying and terrible as it was in LA. The back of the box will claim it has good music from big artists, when in fact the names they list are the ONLY big artists in the game. The rest are scattered underground rappers who you’ve never heard of before, getting into a studio for the first time to pretend they know what they’re doing.
Maybe playing the game on mute or help. You should try it with your eyes closed, too. Better yet, don’t even touch the game at all.
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