True Crime: New York City (GameCube)

• Average user rating: 2.5 stars out of 6 reviews
• My rating: 0 stars

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• 3 stars

  This game could have been so much more.

  by JackDoyle on November 28, 2005

  Pros: New gameplay aspects are welcome addition.

  Cons: None of the new gameplay aspects were done right. Poor graphics, laggy, very buggy.

  Summary: I wanted to rent this game on my GC but none of the video stores had it. I found a copy at Target and since I loved the first one ...

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  Summary: I wanted to rent this game on my GC but none of the video stores had it. I found a copy at Target and since I loved the first one I figured I would buy it.
  
  It took me a few hours to get used to playing this game because the video is so laggy. Eventually, you can get used to it to a degree, though.
  
  I have noticed many of the bugs mentioned in the main review and my game has locked up on me several times (requires a power cycle on the GC). The original True Crime locked up on me once or twice and had its own share of bugs, but not nearly as bad as this sequal.
  
  I have both driven and fallen through the street. I have tried to open doors to go into a building required to resolve a street crime and been unable to enter the building.
  
  I have been interrogating a suspect only to be crashed into by police cars and killed.
  
  The audio has stopped on me several times (which is almost a blessing at times since it is so bad).
  
  I have also, on at least two occasions, had the video lag so slowly that I have gotten about .3 frames per second. Yes, you read that right, it would move a single frame about every three seconds.
  
  Activision believes that my problems will all be resolved by exchanging my game for a new copy. I don't see how that could be the case.
  
  I wrote them a letter about my dissatisfaction with the game, but it apparently fell on deaf ears.
  
  They were on to something good with this game... many new aspects of the gameplay were added since the first game which I think are GREAT. However, not a single one of them was put together the way it should have been.
  
  This game could have been so much more.
  
  Oh yeah, by the way.. so much cussing, but it's to a point where it is comical and ridiculous.

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• 10 stars

  Cool Guns and Cars

  by Deadly_Ricky on August 2, 2008

  Pros: Might have bugs but worth it

  Cons: May have hard crimes to sove but when you beat it your proud of youseve

  Summary: This is the most tighest one i have for gamecube

  Summary: This is the most tighest one i have for gamecube

• 9 stars

  This is one of the greatest games I have ever played

  by S.U.G. on May 23, 2008

  Pros: Every thing in this game is good other than the glitches

  Cons: the glitches are bad but dont mean nothing

  Summary: This game is one of the best games iv ever played. This game has great fighing in it the moves are beast better than any gta fighting even 4. The ...

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  Summary: This game is one of the best games iv ever played. This game has great fighing in it the moves are beast better than any gta fighting even 4. The meele is in a large varity and are cool.The gunplay is awsome it has so many guns and yuo can duck, dive shoot,hug walls shoot around corners and prisision aim which is for aiming for a spacific body part. The driving is controlableb includung drive buys and drifts.The freedom is also outstanding you can walk in al most any bulding or store or place you pass.you can take over gang territory arrest people tackle people give them tickets and still be G.I think this game is better than GTA4 they should make a third version too

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• 9 stars

  great but ...

  by inuyasha1223 on August 25, 2006

  Pros: blood,swearing,guns and a good plot

  Cons: to many bugs!

  Summary: the perfect game but a little 2 many bugs

  Summary: the perfect game but a little 2 many bugs

• 2 stars

  The game that has many problems

  by castrogermy on December 22, 2005

  Pros: the shooting and driving in the game is good

  Cons: not being able to save game even after using different memory cards

  Summary: True Crime New York City has a problem with saving. I have tried to save the game with four different memory cards and non of them work. It tells me ...

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  Summary: True Crime New York City has a problem with saving. I have tried to save the game with four different memory cards and non of them work. It tells me that if I save the game and load it later, that I would start at the beginning of the mission.

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• 2 stars

  Does nobody bugtest anymore?

  by AshUK2006 on December 3, 2005

  Pros: Reminds me of GTA a little

  Cons: not as good as GTA, so many bugs, stupid controls,

  Summary: I spent a whole day looking for a store that had a copy of this game, and I now consider that to be a day completely wasted.
  
  To begin with,
  
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  Summary: I spent a whole day looking for a store that had a copy of this game, and I now consider that to be a day completely wasted.
  
  To begin with, it's quite fun. You go through the very simple training mode, then you get to go out onto the streets and clean up. You can frisk people, fight people, shoot people, generally you're quite free in what you can get away with.
  However, things start to go wrong once you try to do anything more difficult. The gamecube doesn't seem to have enough buttons on the control pad for all the games functions. You have 5 different sets of controls (driving, fighting, shooting, stealth and melee weapons), which is fair enough, but the controls are so badly designed that the simple action of opening a door or picking up an object requires a combination of 2 buttons (Z and A). This may sound like me being nitpicky but when you're trying to do several things in quick succession all the 2 button combination commands don't help, especially if you hit Z+B by accident and it sends you into precision aim mode, or Z+Y so you stand there and hold up your badge.
  
  Driving
  Driving is a pain. There's just something about the way that the cars handle in this game that doesn't seem right. For a start, if you tap the accelerator button once from being stationary the car will drift forward at a constant speed, tap the brake/reverse button once while stationary and it will drift back in the same way, never slowing down or stopping until it hits something or you push the other button. Also, when you're driving and hit something, the other vehicle flies off faster than the speed you were travelling when you hit it. You get to buy certain maneuvers once your rank increases, but they're not exactly easy to pull off. Whether I want to do a 90 degree turn or a 180 degree spin, I always pull off the 180 degree spin, because the controls are virtually identical. The manual seems to be wrong as well, as it says the down arrow on the pad works the horn and the siren, and the right arrow switches to the next song, whereas the down arrow actually toggles the siren and the right arrows is for both the horn AND the next song, although the horn only seems to work half the time anyway. Getting into and out of cars takes too long in my opinion. Your character even bothers to close the door nicely behind him when you leave the car to chase a criminal, which wastes some time and sometimes means they get away.
  
  On foot
  AI controlled cars are lethal in this game. When you're pursuing a sriminal other police cars will often ram you out of their way, and despite having your siren on other cars will still decide to pull out in front of you. They aren't just a pain when you're driving yourself either. I've been ran down while arresting someone, been crashed into and then backed over by the same car, and even on 1 occasion I'd just come out of a building after making some arrests, only to have a police car mow me down while I was still stood on the pavement. Another annoying thing is that a car barely has to touch you at a slow velocity for it to send you flying.
  
  Language
  Yes, there is swearing in it, but the developers seemed to have thought something along the lines of "It's an 18 rated game, so we can swear in it, so lets swear in every other sentence!". I don't find swearing offensive, but frankly it seems childish to include something as often as possible just because you can.
  
  Bugs
  Then there are the bugs. I've had the game lock up completely on more than one occasion. More frequently occurring though is that I'll enter a building, except the game won't bother to load any graphics other than the display (your life meter and your mode indicator). You'll hear sounds and be able to walk around, but you won't be able to see anything at all, not even yourself.
  
  All the other bad points are almost acceptable as I can live with them, but the freezing not loading of graphics means I'll be taking this back for a refund next week.
  Avoid this game, we don't want games manufacturers to think they can get away with making games that are full of bugs and clearly haven't been properly tested.

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