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Summary: The title of this game says it all!!! TRUE CRIME!
Review: A blatant GTA style rip-off with no joystick control option. Might have been slightly amusing if ya' didn't get carpel tunnel from trying to play it. And it took darn near fifty times to install the sucker... (Finally figured out it did not like some cd-software I had installed). So after clearing my HD for this game, the first few hours were enough for me to uninstall this dog and fire up "GTA Vice City".
Don't buy this game.
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Summary: Learning Curve and controls/camera are a killer on this port
Review: As the saying goes, if you see 10 million dollars worth of numerious TV and internet spots/ad's for a videogame, said game will suck-a$$. This is nothing more than true for True Crime: Streets of L.A. In this Console to PC port the controls are not only confusing, but slow in response time, and generally not adaptive. Take for instance you can setup your mouse for 5 diffrent modes of play, a PhD is required to master all the keyboard and mouse combo's. The controls are a breeze compaired to the camera self-tracking system. The views cannot be changed, and I have more than once lost the camera as it swings into a building as i run down a sidewalk. That said, running down a sidewalk can be a challange as well. The camera will swing randomly and then stick to your position for a few moments. (think the VERY FIRST tomb raider) As you walk, would you try to engage a perp, you have to pick from three diffrent attack moves. This is not to mention the keys you map for flashing you badge, frisking, handcuffing, and that list goes on and on. Generally the advertising has worked on this gamer due to my recent and regretted purchase of this title, and my drive to keep "looking" for all these amazing screen shots and movies i have scene on the included DVD. DO NOT PURCHASE, BORROW, or even waste the cable bandwidth on this P.O.S. it is generally not fun to play.
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Summary: WARNING!!!!!!!
Review: DO NOT BUY THIS GAME FOR THE PC!!!!! You can't use a joystick, and Activision is no help at all. I wish I could give it zero stars.
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Summary: Much better on PS2
Review: I bought this game for my computer at work after having a lot of fun with it on my PS2. Do NOT buy it for computer. The controls totally suck. The PS2 version is 10 times better.
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Summary: Much better on PS2
Review: I bought this game for my computer at work after having a lot of fun with it on my PS2. Do NOT buy it for computer. The controls totally suck. The PS2 version is 10 times better.
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Summary: Disappointing
Review: I'd just like to start off by saying I love the GTA series; however, this game is better than the GTA games (in most areas). So what if they ripped off the GTA series, don't hate them for that. Someone in another review said you can't move the camara, which is true while driving, but you can move the camara while fighting. The driving is the weakest part of the game, but shooting at someone while your in your car is pretty good. When your not in your car, the shooting & hand-to-hand combat is great (and the controlls are fine, only took me about 30 minutes to get use too). You can upgrade your shooting and fighting skills (and for everyone who said that the game was to repetitive during combat, I guess you guys never learned how to use your upgraded shooting & fighting moves). If you like Rap & Rock music, you'll love the games soundtrack. I would just borrow this game from a friend, because you'll get through the game in less than 10 hours. The only reason you'd want to replay it is to roam the city and solve random crimes (shoot outs, muggings, street races, fights, busting pimps and hookers, etc), or to replay the alternate paths of the story.
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Summary: Pretty well done.
Review: I'd just like to start off by saying I love the GTA series; however, this game is better than the GTA games (in most areas). So what if they ripped off the GTA series, don't hate them for that. Someone in another review said you can't move the camara, which is true while driving, but you can move the camara while fighting. The driving is the weakest part of the game, but shooting at someone while your in your car is pretty good. When your not in your car, the shooting & hand-to-hand combat is great (and the controlls are fine, only took me about 30 minutes to get use too). You can upgrade your shooting and fighting skills (and for everyone who said that the game was to repetitive during combat, I guess you guys never learned how to use your upgraded shooting & fighting moves). If you like Rap & Rock music, you'll love the games soundtrack. I would just borrow this game from a friend, because you'll get through the game in less than 10 hours. The only reason you'd want to replay it is to roam the city and solve random crimes (shoot outs, muggings, street races, fights, busting pimps and hookers, etc), or to replay the alternate paths of the story.
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Summary: Disappointing
Review: The plot of this game is good. However, the gameplay, in my opinion, is terrible. Compared to GTA: Vice City, this game is pure crap. The vehicle handling is worse than a cartoon and the combat is like an old SNES game. Furthermore, the sound is appalling in that the weapon SFX are weak and unrealistic and the amount of detail is saddeningly non-existent. The environmental detail is the only good point of the game, almost every object in the game is breakable. This game is just a terrible rip-off of Grand Theft Auto 3 and Max Payne.
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Summary: Pretty Good
Review: This game is overall good, as far as the graphics and shooting parts of the game are concerned. The only thing that is unrealistic compared to the real LA streets is the missing traffic. Empty roads are found all throughout the map and this can get annoying at times. Also, when your car hits the trees, the trees fall over, which obviously will not happen in real life. One realistic aspect is the time to get from point to point in the game is the same as if you were really driving in Los Angeles. If you are going to buy this game, buy it for XBOX or PS2, not for your computer. The graphics on a computer will be bad, unless you have a great video card.
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Summary: Wow, a contender for worst PC game ever! - FULL REVIEW
Review: This game is so bad, I don't even know where to begin...
Plot - Something about Triad gangs and the Russian mafia... it was hard to follow, and not very original. Way to many cliche police drama crime elements -- "I told you I work best alone" - ack, gag! Single plotline, WAY to linear.
Sound - Half the time I wasn't sure if it was MY character having one of his "internal dialogue" moments (which happen too frequently), or another character in the game talking. Forget trying to figure out where oncoming cars are by sound alone, it's just not that advanced.
Music - Uninspired gangsta rap for the most part. Not sure if there was a way to "change stations" like in GTA: Vice City, but since all the rest of the music pretty much stunk (to my 34 year old ears), no loss there.
Graphics - I was impressed with a few things -- building detail, LA freeway system, human character models, roads with real "elevation" to them; items in the game can even take damage! Everything looks less "Cartoony" than GTA:3 and GTA:VC, which is good. However the car models were complete crud and looked terrible.
Contols/Camera angles - This is what really killed this game. It seems that most of the time I would end up punching a wall instead of my intended target, or I would be fighting an enemy that was mostly off screen. Sneak missions are almost impossible due to the bizarre camera angles (not to mention the game is WAY to dark).
Hand to hand combat - I'm sure if I picked up the manual, I could make more sense of the combat system... I ended up just kicking and punching till I stunned the enemy, then mash all the attack keys till my character did some "super move" or the other. I admit, I was amused by my character's use of "Finish Him" (from Mortal Kombat) during some of these moves.
Gun combat - Simple, just aim and shoot. Picking up dropped weapons is more difficult than it should be. Not only that, most picked up weapons seem to have limited bullets. It probably would have been easier to have your guy automatically pick up better weapons and auto discard them when they run out, instead of having to look down, (in the dark while being shot at), find the new weapon, and hit the "E" key. The ability to shoot and auto-aim from moving vehicles is very good, works better than the system used in GTA:VC in my opinion.
Computer AI - Pretty stupid, but the enemy does occasionally duck behind things. The AI of computer (non-criminal) drivers was terrible. In GTA:VC, the drivers will usually stop for pedestrians (meaning YOU), not in this game. The problem with AI drivers is exacerbated by the fact that most of the time the camera angle is wrong for you to even see the oncoming cars!
Missions - As mentioned before, very linear plot. Missions follow one right after the other, apparently they change when you play "bad cop" as opposed to "good cop"; however I played the entire first two Missions as a "bad cop" and saw no difference in the outcome. Between driving to diffrent locations for missions, you'll hear requests over the police radio for "police patrol" sub missions. This feature is kinda cool, and it breaks up the monotony of having to drive from one end of the map to the other between missions. (However the sub missions get repetetive quickly.) If you fail part of an episode, you will be forced to play these "police patrol" missions. One fun thing to do is to grab random people off the street and "frisk" them for drugs/weapons. ;)
Pros - Decent graphics (for the most part, except for the car models), "frisking" citizens, interesting concept.
Cons - Worst control and camera angle system I have EVER seen. Cheesy plot, bad voice acting, too linear, terrible music (in my opinion), repetative "police missions"
Overall - Bad port of a console game. I hoped this game would "fill the void" for me until GTA: San Andreas comes out for the PC (Rumor has it that it will be out in March). However, this game does not fit the bill, not even close. Good thing I waited for the price drop...
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