True Crime: New York City reviews begin to appear

[Everlost_MI]

Some of the first reviews of True Crime: New York City as beginning to pop up online.

Cube.IGN (http://cube.ign.com/) & Xbox.IGN ([url=http://xbox.ign.com/) gave it a 7.8 out of 10 (http://cube.ign.com/articles/667/667747p1.html). Their parting comments were...

True Crime: New York City does a whole lot of things right, but it doesn't take very many risks. What this means is that it's a solid title through and through, but you won't find a whole lot of water cooler moments in there. Fans of the genre will dig it, and fans of violence and plenty of swearing will certainly like it. If you're tired of the whole GTA thing and want more substance, this may not be the game for you. For everyone else though, TC: NYC is definitely worth checking out.

While 1up (http://www.1up.com/) gave it a 6.0 out of 10. (http://www.1up.com/do/reviewPage?cId=3145751&did=1) And their parting comments include...

It'll take most people an average of 10 or 12 hours to complete the major cases, but it'll take another twenty-plus hours to unlock everything and to fulfill the 100 percent completion rate. But the seemingly countless number of exacerbating problems prevents it from being a robustly entertaining game, and sadly remains in the shadow of its bigger-name brethren.

[Kefkataran]

My buddy who I lived with last year seemed to love the first game, but I always thought it looked mediocre at absolute best. These lower scores don't surprise me at all, and I wouldn't surprised to see the average being even lower after more are out.

(I realize a 7.8 isn't exactly a "lower" score, but coming from IGN, well... it's coming from IGN.)

[The Great Gatsby]

My buddy who I lived with last year seemed to love the first game, but I always thought it looked mediocre at absolute best.

So you're a graphic whore who bases his purchases on nothing but graphics? What if the gameplay was solid? (Not that I know, but just what if?). It could have been a fun game to play, but since it LOOKED mediocre, you passed.

Games aren't woman man. We can play a mediorce looking game as long as its fun.

[Kefkataran]

So you're a graphic whore who bases his purchases on nothing but graphics? What if the gameplay was solid?

When I said it looked mediocre, I didn't mean graphically. I'm the furthest thing from a graphics whore. I don't even own an XBox. When I said it looked mediocre, I meant the GAMEPLAY looked mediocre.

[Dabombpizza]

Games aren't woman man. We can play a mediorce looking game as long as its fun.
Are you saying you wouldn't have sex with a mediocre woman? I don't think that's true. But regardless, True Crimes: Streets of LA was pretty damn mediocre. I played it because it offered some inovation and some intresting game play tid bits (shooting drivers out of cars is sooo much fun). But overall it lacked polish, had a shit ton of bugs, sloppy controls, and the annoying as fuck dead-to-rights style brawler bullshit. The only way to have fun with it is to run around the street and cause chaos...so that makes it like a 1/4 of GTA.

[The Iron Weasel]

I thought the original was extrodinarly mediocre, the story was pure, undiluted, absolute, bullshit. And the shooting mechanics were annoying. Why can't I KEEP A FUCKING ASSAULT RIFLE, and RELOAD said assault rifle? Why can I use 2 M4's but not seem to beable to keep one? Seriously I was stoked for that game, and for a while I rode the fact that I was looking forward to it, but I was kidding myself, the original was awful. Hopefully they've cleaned this game up.

[Murtaug]

I had a blast with the first one, for a week. A friend of mine bought it for the PS2 when it first came out, had a lot of fun running around looking for things, doing crazy stunts in cars.. just passing the controller back and forth goofing off without really getting anywhere in game.

Picked it up for the Xbox on the cheap around Christmas time last year, played it for about fifteen minutes and I have yet to pick it up again. The game is crap, and I have no clue why I did not realize that before.

The commercials I have seen on television for the new one really turn me off too, everything looks so damn drab. I might pick it up as a rental just to check it out, but I really have no expectations for it.. which might be a good thing.

[netcraazzy]

While I really had a blast with GTA3 the subsequent sequels and me-too games such as True Crime have not managed to pique my interest. This genre is in need of some innovative new twist to make it seem new and novel in my eyes again.