Not Brilliant, More of an average GTA type game.

User Rating: 6.3 | True Crime: New York City PS2
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To be honest i think the game makers were going for a San Andreas type game set out in New York City. The character seems much like Carl Johnson from GTASA but as a Police Officer and the massive problem is that the game makers have overdone the dialogue and also completely messed it up. There are a few nice things about this game, but many other extremely bad points. When i first bought this game i thought it was great! until i did a couple of missions. The controls are hard to use and the feeling of driving is horrific! its like driving on slippery ice. I do like the graphics of this game i have to admit, thats one of the good things about it, but lots of other things are terrible. For example the dialogue is completely awful, when you steal a police car the former driver will just stand there repeating the sentence: "what the ****?" over and over again. You cant understand most of the time what people are saying because the dialogues so difficult to understand.

The game starts in a snowy closed in part of New York in winter. You play as a beaten up ganster who has gone to get his revenge. Once completing the first mission, it then takes you several years forward to when your player has become a Cop. The game then gives you a couple of good missions, but after that, things get very boring and the game slowly worsens. Like ive already said i thought this game was amazing on the first couple of missions but after that i realised how dull the game actually was. To be honest ive never actually finished this game, i payed 12.99 at my local UK second hand games store, and i regret doing so because i stopped after the second set of missions because the game got so bad. Ive heard Streets Of LA is better, but i dont have that game so i wouldnt know for sure, but from the images i have seen and videos, it looks and seems a lot better in my opinion.

Theres really not much more i can say for this game, all i can end this small review with is that i dont reccomend this game to anyone unless you can get it for cheaper than around 7 Pounds/Dollars. If you are used to playing GTA games like me, then it can seem even worse due to the bad controls and gigantic amount of difference in gameplay.

Not Reccomended.

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