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Wield the ultimate power as a rogue street cop in New York City. You are Marcus Reed, a former criminal turned cop, using and abusing your authority to hunt down the murderer of your mentor while cleaning up the 'hoods of New York City, from Harlem to Chinatown. Your undercover investigation leads you through a murderous web of gangs and deceit as you battle crooks, your past, and everything else the city can throw at you.
Spare yourself the misery!Reviewed by Robert J. Jordan, 2007-06-28
I am not the kind of guy who complains or demands a lot about games
and I have always been able to overlook minor glitches as long as
the game is fun and keeps me entertained, HOWEVER I must say that I
have NEVER EVER had such a terrible experience like I did with this
game. In the beginning I was loving the game, great missions and I
could literally play it for hours, but then the nightmare started.
There is a mission that you have to complete called "Shadow Tong"
where you have to push a character off a crate, I found out at
least in my case that it is just impossible. After hours and hours
of trying to do it and reading walkthroughs that could help me
figure out what I was doing wrong, I realized that it wasn't even
my fault!!!!!!! It is a glitch that apparently comes only for the
XBOX version and tons of people were having the same problem. The
result was my total and utter dissapointment, after all, what is
the point of starting a game you cannot finish????!!!! I felt
ripped off and extremely upset and I decided to warn everybody
about this because it is unacceptable. Since then the game is
stored in my closet getting dusty, reminding me the HUGE MISTAKE I
did throwing my good earned money in the garbage. There are
hundreds of great games you could buy, think of the choices and
spare yourself the misery of getting this one. So please just
research a little bit so you know what I'm talking about and if you
do decide to ignore what I have stated here, well don't say I
didn't warn you.
P.S. The game freezes ALL the time as well so be prepared for that
too if you buy it.
New York C-C-C-C-C-C-beeeeeeeeeep-CRASH!Reviewed by W Coats, 2007-05-20
I'll start by saying that True Crime NYC is the first console game
that I can remember since the Sega Master System days that actually
crashed my console. New game disc, 2005 model Xbox with no read
errors or other problems; this is simply a horribly broken piece of
software.
What is so sad about TCNYC is the clear attempt to make a great
game. The programmers were trying to do something big here, what
with the interesting storyline, the depth of the fighting engine,
detailed building interiors, on and on. But they failed
spectacularly at almost every attempt.
To the first major failure: an apparent lack of understanding of
how to program software within the limitations of the hardware. The
game simply tries to render far too much during driving for even
the reasonably powerful Xbox. Framerates sieze up every block or
two, and this led to my first complete system crash within ten
minutes of play. Disturbing. I can only imagine how unplayable this
is on the less powerful PS2. The driving control scheme relies on
"special move" buttons to perform stunts; a pretty good indicator
that the programmers had no idea how to build a working car physics
engine. The awful control scheme doesnt even include analogue
gas/brake functions, which would have been perfectly fine on the
trigger buttons (GTA 2 did this with the DREAMCAST controller
almost ten years ago). Rolling through NYC in a jet-black unmarked
4.6 Crown Vic Interceptor should feel cool, but it just feels
crummy.
The on foot engine is acutally an improvement over GTA's, at least
until running or fighting. While the fight sequences could have
been a saving grace, the ridiculously complicated Street
Fighter-style button combos make it miserable. Each special move
button results in a pre-rendered animation sequence that feels
clumsy and is just as likely to leave your face in the fist of your
enemy as have the desired consequence. A simplified scheme with
fewer "special" moves and improved response time could have made
this the nicest fighting engine in any open-world game to date. But
it isn't.
The city itelf, while detailed and often well-lit at night, just
doesn't have the character of Liberty City. Perhaps due to the lack
of any verticality in the landscape (no bridges, hills, or even
peaks and valleys in roadways), the city feels dull and lifeless
after a few hours of driving. And strange glitches in environment
lighting (car lights flicker on and off) and collision detection
evaporate any sense of realism. Not to mention awful behavior
programming for pedestrians which turns every NYC resident into a
Tourette's victim.
The story is initially interesting, although the foul language used
as "dialogue" crosses the line from shocking to just plain bad
writing. Unfortunately a horrific glitch in the volume balance
means you wont hear 90% of the game's cutscenes. There must have
been some evil, angry, vindictive person in charge of testing this
game. You just can't screw up this bad accidentally.
The one element that really stood out as a positive was the use of
NYC's precincts as controllable strategic elements of the overall
map. By apprehending criminals (who commit a wide variety of rather
creative crimes) in a precinct, you can gradually clean it up and
gain respect and rank within your squad. While it's not much more
than a nonessential side mission, I found it gave me a sense of
control and accomplishment that the paint-by-numbers story mode
lacked.
Unfortunately, a few unique concepts arent enough to save TCNYC
from its abominable technical problems. Because the developers
tried to do so much and occasionally succeeded, I can't say it's a
completely bad game...but due to all the glitches it's certainly a
failure.
Great GameReviewed by Hi peeplz, 2006-06-17
I enjoyed the game and thus give it a perfect score because it kept me going for months even though i beat the game 6 times. I enjoyed the game a lot despite all the bugs and glitches. It's created with the real look and feel of new york city. Despite all the praise though the game really did frustrate me with all the bugs and things. Like on the Shadow Tong case it took me forever to knock Tommy off the crate thing. But overall loved it! I hope the come ou with a third TC.
Unacceptable GTA CloneReviewed by coopertex, 2006-04-09
True Crime New York City is the sequel to True Crime L.A. Though
you are now playing as a former gang member named, Marcus instead
of Kang. Marcus was framed and betrayed by his own gang boss, so
from the beginning of the game you will start blasting away in a
bitter state of revenge. Marcus then makes a new lead in life by
becoming a cop with the help of his father's friend. Five years
later, Marcus is being offered the undercover detective position
and sets out to fight crime in the city of New York. First let me
comment, on the good points of the game: The shooting, driving and
martial arts system in the gameplay have been improved over its
predecessor. In the shooting aspect, you can now lock on to targets
and blast away. The weaponry has improved and are more fierce,
feeling a bit like Max Payne. You can also do presiscion shots
again but it feels better. The driving vehicles also improved,
feeling tighter and you can even drift on corners.
The good points however, are dragged down by sloppy programming
that left the game unfinished and full of strange glitches, which
are not acceptable! My in-game mini radar showed a bad guy as a red
dot and I went searching endless for the bad guy and could never
find it even though I was right on the dot. Then I made my game
character look up and the bad guy was FLOATING in mid-air! The
in-game police characters often chased after ghost criminals
yelling "stop right there" and then took off running!
Sometimes when I crashed my cars with other vehicles, their body
would sink half-way into the ground! The sound effects and
character speeches would cut off abruptly, especially on the
streets with pedestrians. Shooting bad guys in the head is not
always a kill, but I shot someone in the leg three times and they
died! The graphics are cheap and the frame-rate is full of lag! I
don't care how wonderful a game concept is. If the gameplay is so
buggy as to hinder its enjoyment, then it is junk! Game developers
should not release buggy games like this and sell them to the
public as a finished product, this simply is unacceptable! Skip
this and save your money; you've been warned.
Pros:
+minor improvements
+arresting people is fun
Cons:
-cheap looking graphics
-floating bugs
-collision detection problems
-sound issues
-terrible frame-rate
-control issues
-improvements ruined by glitches
better than GTA...but ONEEE PROBLEMMM...Reviewed by marc, 2006-02-25
its fun to just turn this game on and fool around in the
environment. the city looks\feels JUST like being in New York
(especially Harlem) and it is HUGE. frisk people for illegal
contriband, drive around listening to music or stop in the MANY
restaurants and get something to eat to restore health. i myself
love the shooting scheme where when you push down the right
joystick, things slow down so you can target better. excellent
shooting effects as well. best game to come out yet...
THE ONLY TRUE PROBLEM THAT I HAVE WITH THIS GAME IS THAT CARS
APPEAR INFRONT OF YOU WHEN YOU LOOK TO THE SIDE!! i like to drive
around and just gaze at the perfect automobile i am in from every
angle...only to switch back to the normal angle to find myself
crashing into a car that WAS NOT THERE before. i did a test to see
if the cars did infact APPEAR out of nowhere...i switched the view
to the side for a split second and switched it back...and low and
behold..a car that was not there had appeared out of nowhere in
front of me while i was driving. when your trying to keep your car
looking nice...and cars appear out of nowhere and make you crash
and ruin it...it sucks alil bit :|
if you can get past this small problem, youll enjoy this game alot.
i played it more than i did GTA:SA...
iLL .
