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So Amazon reviewers are just plain nuts.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 4
Date: February 22, 2006
Author: Amazon User

True Crime: New York City is a great, GREAT game. I bought it expecting it to be fun, but not the great thrill it was. New York has never been rendered better (and I thought Activision did a great job with the Spider-Man series.)

I enjoy GTA but buy comparison TCNYC is leagues better. The driving, fighting and shooting controls are simply better. Sorry, as much as I enjoy GTA the inability to wall-hug, is KEY in those mega gun battles (gamers now what I'm talking about.) Also it helps that the cars on the streets in TCNYC actually move out of your way if your car has a police siren, which makes for less explosions and getting to a mission in one piece.

The violence and profanity are THICK in this game, but the choice to be a good cop or a bad cop is a welcome one, given that so many games just offer mindless, unrepentant gore and dare I say, a lack of basic humanity. As a good cop, you can choose to wound and arrest a suspect, instead of blowing everyone's head off all the time.

The story and voice acting are both quite excellant. I hope that someday there will be a sequel to his game -- not the LA version. Most games featuring African-American leads depict them only as outlaws. TCNYC makes you responsible for all of your choices. Great game.

Good But needs sone improvements

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 9
Date: August 26, 2006
Author: Amazon User

This game starts you out at Christmas 2000 and you are a gangster named Marcus Reed. This part is not very hard. Then 5 years later you become a street cop. After that you half to go through Fighting training, Gun training, and Driving training. Led by the person who takes care of Marcus, Terry. It is kind of boring. Then you half to drive to a certain place where Terry tells you the different kinds of crimanils and you half to search for drugs. You half to check 3 people for drugs. The last person you check has drugs. Then you half to check the car ahed for drugs. Of course, it has some. Then Terry tells you about the different kinds of criminals. After he tells you about all of them, you half to arrest all of them. After you arrest 4 out of 5 people, the last person escapes. You go into the car thet you see 1st (not Terry's) then you drive to the closest street. Then you chase the guy down and arrest him. Then you half to drive to another place because Terry has to do something the biulding explodes and Terry dies. Then back at the police station, Deena Dixon tells you that you are on yo'ur
own. You are. My opinion of the game play is 5 stars but the music is -100,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 stars. Rap and Punk are horrible! But the rock is ok.

Not the best, but good

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 5
Date: November 27, 2005
Author: Amazon User

The game story is really good and the graphics are good. The music is okay and the weapons and cars are nice. The problems with the cars were that the turning is hard. Plus the character that your are playing with runs slow. The missions are fun but sometimes a bit diffcult which makes the game better. This game is better since there is motorcycles. It is a good game to buy but not worth 50 bucks.

Fun, but falls to GTA

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: June 28, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Ok, you could assume without much information that GTASA is a better game than this, though since this is sort of an imitation of it, it makes it less worth while. That's just a foreword: this game is decent.

The graphics aren't great or anything, but they don't do a bad job of portraying NYC. The building designs aren't so great, they have the neighborhoods down and know where to place key structures (like churches or synagogues or famous food places, not just Statue of Liberty, Ground Zero, or Empire State). That said, the human model graphics are somewhat mediocre, but they're not as bad as the grand theft auto ones, and the building graphics are decent, and vehicles look fair.

The controls hold up pretty well. Compared to a lot of games, the combat engine is nice. Melee isn't anything special, but shooting holds up well, I just wish you could get weapons more easily (there's an armory that you can get as you go up in rank as an investigator, but it seems nearly impossible to be able to actually use them, unless I'm seriously missing something huge).

The gameplay itself varies. There are the neighborhoods of Manhattan that have different crime rates, and you can temporarily 'clean' them up, but they'll decay as time goes on, and you can help this decay, the engine of 'rotting buildings' is rather amusing. As Game Informer cited: The stores will slowly close down on the streets where you randomly punch people in the face. Basically, there are repeatable crime scenarios (there are many, so you don't end up using too many) and several routes to resolving the issue. The only problem is, when the violators are getting intensely violent (to the point of guns) and you need to shoot them, other cops who are helping to arrest them will sometimes shoot at you, and flashing your badge generally won't work, in which case you need to flee or shoot them, which will eventually lead to demotion. There are story missions as well, of course, in which at first you're chasing down what appears to be a run-of-the-mill drug ring, which evolves into a more complex storyline, but the storyline missions really aren't very entertaining.

In short, this game is a good effort, is generally entertaining, and has a decently good sense of city geography (central park is actually done alright, as is morningside. Riverside, like in spiderman 2, has shops on it which are illegal, there are no key spots.... well if you consider the actual meeting scene of The Warriors a key zone, and the park itself is just an intensely narrow strip. They have some buildings that are well-known, like Saint John's Cathedral, which is to an extent somewhat realistic). Basically, the subway system is done well, and it's a good free-roam game, but the storyline is mediocre.

The controls are difficult to master

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: January 04, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This game isn't bad, it's just kind of frustrating. You have to press the directional pad in different directions to change the functions of the buttons constantly. This is very difficult to explain, and even more difficult to learn while playing. If you have patience enough to play this game for two hours straight to try to learn the controls, then you are a lot more patient than me! I gave up after stage 3...

1ST TRUE CRIME, IS A BETTER GAME

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: January 04, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I DID NOT LIKE THE NY VERSION. IT MAKES NY LOOK LIKE SOMETHING OUT OF A GODFATHER FILM. MIGHT BE BECAUSE I WAS BORN AND RAISED IN NY. SO, I MIGHT BE PARTIAL TO NOT ENJOYING THE GAME. THE CONTROLS ARE NOT GOOD WHILE DRIVING THE STREETS. THE LA VERSION I THINK HAD A BETTER STORY. THE ONLY GOOD THING ABOUT THE GAME IS THAT IT DOES LOOK LIKE NEW YORK CITY. IF YOU WANT A BETTER GAME SIMILAR TO THIS ONE, GET THE GODFATHER GAME. I KNOW IT'S VIOLENT ALSO, BUT THE CONTROLS ARE A LITTLE BIT BETTER, AND IF YOU ARE A FAN OF THE FILMS, GET IT. THANK YOU

A True Crime

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: February 08, 2007
Author: Amazon User

(Brittany Spears song) Ooops, they did it again. They made a new game, and it plays like crap. I'm not going to waste time with details, you'll get that from the other reviews. This game has been out for a while now. It's just funny to me how Activision has the balls to make wise cracks about GTA within the dialog of the character. The real "True Crime" is that Activision packed do-do in a box and tried to market it as entertainment. Pathetically, its clear that the jokes are nothing more than jealous mud slinging. HA,HA!

NYC hasent ever been this much fun

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: April 17, 2006
Author: Amazon User

The gaming magazines have been really trashing this game (at least the 1s i read) but its so much better than Streets of LA in so many ways. First off the soundtrack is the best ive heard since American Waistland. the soundtrack is huge. Its got Rap, Rock And punk. Now The Game is huge. the map is so big and really nice looking. if you need to get someplace just take a cab. plus almost every building you can walk into. But is daos get boring after you have done everything. But wait theres also Driver: Parralel Lines. That has NYC frome The 70's and 2006. So you should probibly rent the 2 and make a choise.

True [...]: New York

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: May 16, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Both games in this series are horrible copies of Driver 3, which is a horrible copy of the Getaway, which is a horrible copy of Grand Theft Auto.
TC: New York starts off forcing you to participate in a two-hour long "training" session that gets worse and more boring by the minute, then its another 30 minutes of "drive here, do this" before you can even start the game. Horrible, sloppy controls (such as having seperate buttons for firing a weapon and firing warning shots) and some of the worst video game acting I've ever seen totally destroy this game before it even starts.
This game is such a waste of money, its a true crime.

True Crime: NY City

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: January 03, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Players wield the ultimate power as one of NYC's finest in True Crime: New York City (Activision; PS2). Gamers assume the role of Marcus Reid, a former criminal turned cop. True Crime: NYC is a vast improvement over its predecessor, True Crime: Streets of LA. This latest version is more in depth, giving gamers the chance to explore an expertly recreated Manhattan island while fighting crime in your own morally ambiguous way.

True Crime: NYC takes you on a unique journey through the eyes of an NYPD cop with criminal ties and background. As Marcus players bust criminals, take down gangs, extort, interrogate, search and seize and dispense justice, either by the book or by indulging in the temptations of the job. However, your choices do affect the city, if crime goes unchecked, the crime rate will soar and the streets will fill with trash, potholes and unsavory characters.

Gameplay this time around is much better; developers have improved most aspects of the game from hand-to-hand combat to gunplay and driving. Environmental interaction allows players to access almost everything in the game that can assist, from listing stovetops to locking suspects in freezers. And you get to do it all with an all-star cast that includes the voice talents of Laurence Fishburne ("Cornbread!") and the original Frank White, Christopher Walken. Plus, with more than 80 songs, the in game soundtrack is off the hook, featuring music from DMX, Redman and Jay-Z (to name a few). If you are familiar with the past version of True Crime you will be pleasantly pleased with the new and improved New York City.

The game carries an "M" rating and more than likely should have a parental advisory sticker as well for language and content. Kids should definitely check with parents (Or not, lol) before getting this one. Nonetheless True Crime: New York City is a solid game and should provide hours of entertainment while you bust, shake down, and grill ingrates to a hot soundtrack.

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