True Crime

I have suddenly become obsessed with 'gangsta' style games. Having recently bought GTA:VC, and sadly, become enthralled, my brain wants more. Now.
I was glancing through the release schedule and happened to come upon True Crime. Seeming to be my sort of thing and having read a few, relatively minor reviews, I was looking foward to it, greatly so infact.
Having also seen in JB's signature that True Crime was in his list of favourite games (and me not having played it) it made me think. Can it be worth buying. Having played GTA extensively, I am wondering what TC can possibly offer. Other than the greater hand-to-hand combat system, thats the only great noticable thing I saw.
Does anyone know why I should invest in it. Or have any hands on plays of it (hint JB, hint hint).

I was playing GTA3 the other day and I realised just how dated it was. When I first played it when it came out on PS2 I was amazed at how much freedom you got, because such freedom to do stuff had never been matched by any other game before-hand. I just found it so addictive wandering around and seeing what you can do - I also thought that no-one would be able to beat it for quite some time. But since the GameCube and especially in the last year, games in general have had so much more freedom - making GTA3 nothing special, it would've been quite hard to beleive that this would be the case back in 2001 or whenever. So when I came back to GTA3 - I actually felt quite restriced, wheras I used to admire how many different cars there were that you could drive, now I'm thinking, "well there aren't *that* many" - and the world isn't *that* big and the AI isn't *that* good, infact its quite predictable by todays standards and you no longer draw fun from it. And that ruins the whole game because your less forgiving of its flaws - the slightly repetitive tasks, the poor graphics, poor controls, its only a *bit* fun. This time last year I would've given it 10/10 but now I'd give it 7/10.

So what has this got to do with True Crime? Well, until last week, when anyone who told me that it would be "better than GTA3" I would've disagreed with and dismissed it as one of those wishful-thinking "who needs GTA when we've got this" comments from a nintendo fan. But having played it again from a year or so of not playing it, I've realised how dated it all is - and yes, in 2003 I'm sure a game of the same genre could easily beat it.

Still, I won't be able to afford it, with so many great games coming out it won't be any higher than 10th on my wish-list and since I can only afford 4 more games this year - its very difficult. Its a great time - with all those great GameCube games its tough deciding what not to get.

you have random crimes.

karma meter thing that turns from good to bad

demons and zombies... (I know )

It'll have to be really really good to beat GTA VC for me anyway, because of the humour involved in GTA and the whole feel of the game

Looks like a really good game IMO, and the review at IGN speaks wonders of it - they gave it an overall of 9.0!!!! -. So I'm getting it off www.dvdcrave.com for an amazing

Nah, not normally at that price, but heeper than usuall. And this one was one offer I couldn't miss!

[ Edited by Sumacol on 2003/11/8 20:41 ]

This is my favourite part of the IGN review which shows that the game has some potential:

We've witnessed sequences where we rolled up on a random crime scene in Nick's custom cop car, started fighting the suspect, who then hopped in our cop car and took off. We chased him down in a slow truck, incapacitated our now stolen cop car, the suspect then got out, put up more of a fight and then stole the slow truck we arrived in and left us sitting there with our burning, flat-tired cop car.

sounds awesome, eh?

I've read some funny stories where the AI has played tricks on people, for example, someone stopped a mugging of an old woman, they didn't have much health and the old woman they saved came up and kicked them... they died

lol. Sounds quite fun to me, however my only real dislike for the developer's decision is actually based on the music - sure you can turn it off, allow the SFX to play and listen to our own crap, but what they've selected for the backing tune is really irritating hip/hop from some "upcoming" artists, and, well, Snoop Dogg. However, we'll probably get used to it... I hope.

It all sounds quite good (the game not the music ), but other titles of the moment have priority.

GTA and you play as Jet Li, how can that not be awesome??

To bad I'm going for a 4 game maximum this X-mas...crap.

JB wrote:
This is my favourite part of the IGN review which shows that the game has some potential:

We've witnessed sequences where we rolled up on a random crime scene in Nick's custom cop car, started fighting the suspect, who then hopped in our cop car and took off. We chased him down in a slow truck, incapacitated our now stolen cop car, the suspect then got out, put up more of a fight and then stole the slow truck we arrived in and left us sitting there with our burning, flat-tired cop car.

sounds awesome, eh?

That happened to me....... But I shot the shit out of the car and he hit a oncoming police car.....

My car was fucked!

I am really looking forward to this and I was really pissed of when they delyed it for the GC. I heard that in the game you have a branching story line so you can fail the mission and still pass it??? But it does change the rest of the missions. The driving is meant to be really impressive unlike the fighting which has to be improved due to a few bugs. Oh and you can tune in to the police call radio to deal with crimes that are actually happening so you don't have to just do the main missions.

P.S. Don't quote me on any of this as it is only what I have read, seen, heard .etc.

Basicly, the story carries on even if you get your head beaten in during a fight.

Pretty smart

Basically, as The Monkey God noted, you can essentially fail a mission - well, not die, but cock it up in places. The overall story reflects on reality where the consequences of your actions affect the overall ending of the game. With this, you have a "good cop/bad cop" system where this contributes to the ending you receive, with the latter being worse off. So with each civilian you accidentally knock over, or car you destroy, it narrows down your chances of fully completing the title.

However, the great thing is you can repeat different missions at any time. Something which we wish could happen in real life!

So if we screw up the game keeps going? I like!

sounds really smart, i think this is anothergame on my Xmas list, however, i guess i ought to finish VC first!