This game lives upto it's GS review. It's as bad agame gets.
That's why we have so many genres - RPG DM FPS Strategy & recently we have open-ended game play courtesy Grand Theft Auto.
Grand Theft Auto took the gaming world by storm with its open-ended ness.
From that time on many games have tried to bank on this winning strategy. Total Overdose was one of them & now we have True Crime.
This is a port from PS2. So it is fair to expect some PS2 flavor reminiscent in it.
But this game fails to deliver dismally.
But before jumping to conclusions & passing a judgment we have to consider a tiny bit of info that I started with.
People are different, so are their tastes. So what appeals to me is worthless for others.
It is to be understood clearly that I am a hardcore DM fan & I see from that perspective.
There are thousands of reviews for every game but nobody bothers to say what type of gamer they are before writing a review.
This should be made into an option in Gamespot to allow the readers to see from the writer’s perspective.
For example, I read many people write bad reviews for DOOM3 giving it 3 or even 1.5 but just ask them what they love playing. Most would say Diablo II, Prince of Persia, Age of Empires …. These are RPG, Strategy fans writing reviews for DOOM3. They know nothing of what the rush of blood fells like, never played a DM in their whole life. So do we take what they say – yes, only if I am too a strategy guy but absolutely not if I am a FPS lover.
So before writing a review we must clearly state what is our fav genre of gaming.
My genre is FPS & DM.
So as I was saying before this game fails to deliver dismally. As a FPS I like to see some hardcore brawling. GTA, Total Overdose both has plenty of it. This game is tough from the outright & the most impossible thing happened that never happened to me in my whole gaming career, whole 7 years of fit. I failed the TUTORIAL mission the first time round. Time over it’s what its called in this game – True Crime. Don’t the developers realize this is PC game and the PS2 culture doesn’t apply here? Of course we had time limited games in PC in the past - but for every level :o I think that’s too far fetched to demand from a PC gamer. And look at the time they give hardly four minutes.
The very first level starts with a time limit of 4 mins within which I had to reach my deputy ‘s office. With no directions to help & map tucked away 3 levels deep were the developers thinking that I would yo-yo between that map & the game & still find my way out. Not a single word is wasted to lower the learning curve. We play to have FUN. If we have to waste good part of our time figuring out how the game works the FUN part is quietly stripped off what we are left with is pure frustration.
The only good part I saw is the cars – they are good to handle & run really fast.
But if we really want to have fun with cars we would play NFS, & Total Overdose (It really has some cool Car stunts to play around).
We will not go around to buy a game just because the cars are good. And no matter how much the cars are banged against objects, they just refuse to suffer even a scratch.
This is based on GTA so it is supposed to be vast & open. It is vast but the time limit cripples the game. If the levels are vast we should be allowed ample time to navigate it.
I didn’t even go three blocks when it times out. Is this a game or a race ?
For average gamer – You just can’t beat the time limit set by the game in less than three tries. For me that’s more than I can tolerate – 12 mins of nothing .