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GTA-Styled True Crime Gets Final Verdict

Posted by simoniker on from the vercetti-puts-hit-out-on-activision dept.

Thanks to 1UP for its review of Activision's multi-platform driving/shooting hybrid, True Crime, which starts by pointing out that "there aren't very many true console competitors for GTA... True Crime: Streets of LA is the first real contender since The Getaway." The reviewer praises the "plot-oriented makeover", but is concerned about game shortness: "You can get all three endings... in a weekend once you master the controls." Gaming Age is delighted by the title, suggesting it's "one of the best games to come out this holiday season", and IGN PS2 rules True Crime as "an enjoyable game if you can clear your mind of Grand Theft Auto expectations", while GameSpot points out that the just-shipped title is another to boast an advertising tie-in, as hero Nick Kang is "modeling new apparel and footwear from Puma's spring 2004 collection."

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  1. Re:Advertising in games by Talonius · · Score: 2, Funny

    Why? I mean, who cares? If the developer of the game earns a bit more because Puma paid them then more power to them -- I hope your mind is strong enough that you can shrug off this sort of thing and make an independent decision.

    If not then you're already adrift in a world of advertising whoredom aren't you?

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    My reality check bounced.
  2. "GTA-Styled True Crime gets final verdict" by FannyMinstrel · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Did anyone else think that this was relating to the court case where they guys shot the other guy, and blamed GTA3?
    I was looking at the text and going "wtf, where is the verdict!"

  3. Took a look at it. by Sheetrock · · Score: 3, Interesting
    I'm not too big on the controls. Although I liked the idea of taking on crime rather than perpetuating it in a video game, I have to admit GTA3/GTA:Vice were easier to control.

    Well, except for aiming guns, which is already nearly impossible with a joystick unless you're too young to be playing such a title, and whatever shoulder button you had to hold to aim always went to the lady in the walker instead of to one of the five people beating the holy hell out of you.

    And I agree with a former poster, the violence is way over the top. Not an effective substitute for game quality, and probably warping the only people with the time to play the things.

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    Try not. Do or do not, there is no try.
    -- Dr. Spock, stardate 2822-3.




  4. Anonymous Coward? Tommy??? by mo^ · · Score: 2, Funny
    Although True Crime borrows heavily from GTA for its basic game structure, there is one very plain difference: instead of an anonymous gangster, you play Nick Kan.....


    even my drug addled brain can recall Tommy Vercetti.
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    bah!*@%!
    1. Re:Anonymous Coward? Tommy??? by TommyH1000 · · Score: 2

      I think they're referring to the nameless, voiceless wonder from GTA 3, not Tommy Vercetti. That was, IMHO, one of the biggest reasons that the plot for Vice City was better than GTA 3. Even if they had just made him grunt at people it would have been an improvement.

  5. Rollin' down Rodeo with a shotgun... by Sodade · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Accurate modelling of the streets of LA? That makes the game worth checking out by itself. That a game is "too short" doesn't turn me off at all - I don't have time in my life for another Vice City. BUT - the fire breathing dragons and demon heads? Give me a break! How friking lame is that? Don't get me wrong - I am all into fire breathing dragons - but not in modern LA!