True Crime: Streets of LA is an action-adventure video game developed by Luxoflux and published by Activision for the Xbox, PlayStation 2 and GameCube in November 2003 and the first game in the True Crime series. Activision later released versions for Windows in May 2004 and the Mac in November 2004. It's another cheap GTA knockoff.
Overview
True Crime's gameplay has been called "the GTA III clone where you play a cop," because the general mechanics are basically the same: the player wreaks havoc across the city and progresses through the story at their own leisure. However, since the player is on the other side of the law, there are several differences between Grand Theft Auto and True Crime. The repercussions for committing crimes are more severe in True Crime. For example, if Kang steals a car from a citizen, he will be fired from the force and will have to perform good actions in order to get the police forces trust back. Other reason is that True Crime: Streets of LA relies heavily on melee combat sequences, which are redundant and boring, you just tap buttons to until you knock someone down, they get back up, then tap more buttons.
Level Structure
It's incredibly redundant, and that's how EVERY level goes. Boss levels usually start with a car chase, then going through a building and shooting guard then killing the boss, and you can't kill the boss with your gun! You can only defeat him "Honorably" without guns and when you try to pull out a gun, it says "I wanna do this honorable". You can't expect much from a GTA knockoff, but this is a new level of crap. There are some more fun parts, considering it IS an open world game, like you can go and shoot a police officer and take his car, if you really want to.
Bugs
- Driving through buildings
- Getting stuck behind a fence after jumping a guard rail with a car .-.
Pros/Cons
Pros
Cons
- Glitchy as hell
- Redundant
- Lives system
Rating/score
The game is rated M.
GameRankings scores
77.30% (PS2)
78.78% (Xbox)
79.49% (GC)
70.26% (PC)
1UP.com - B-
Eurogamer - 7/10
Gamespot - 7.2/10
IGN - 9/10
My score for it - 5/10 just for the fact that it's an open-world game.
