1. MatthewS.G.

   10

   I would like to give it a 10, but ever since I got it, it's been giving me all these damned DISC READ ERROR messages, I wonder if anyone else has this problem?… Expand

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2. ChrisB

   6

   True Crime was one of the first games I got for Xbox. It's clearly meant to be a GTA-killer - it has many of the same gameplay elements. The problem is execution. Where GTA and GTA-VC feel like very "solid", with seamless passage between driving and on foot action, True Crime feels awkward in both. The cars don't handle well, and the fighting is more geared towards fans of fighting games. There are special moves and combos and things like that. The missions themselves are very run of the mill, and are direct ripoffs from Grand Theft Auto - kill this guy, drive across town in a certain amount of time, etc etc, but True Crime is completely devoid of the humor or originality that some of the missions in Grand Theft Auto game possess. It's also a lot shorter than any of the previous GTA games. One thing that's pretty good about True Crime is the enormous map. It's HUGE. Most of LA is in this game. It's not as impressive now that GTA San Andreas has come out, but True Crime deserves credit for the being the first game of it's kind to have a game world this big. It's a shame the huge city isn't used more by the game. The other problem is that there isn't a whole lot going on. True Crime's city doesn't seem to have as much "life" to it as Grand Theft Auto series games do. There are random crimes that you can choose to help solve, but there isn't a big variety of them at all, and they're pretty boring once you've done a few. While I didn't experience any of the crash bugs that other people have, I did find a few cutscene bugs (the wrong cutscene playing for example). All in all, it's a shoddy GTA rip off, and your much better served picking up ANY of the GTA games if you want this type of game, especially GTA: San Andreas.… Expand

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3. JamesH.

   4

   The one thing that really amazed me about this game was the scale to which the developers mapped Los Angeles. The playing area encompasses 240 square miles and this must have entailed an immense amount of effort and time to achieve. Its a shame then that this environment is left largely unused and there is no motivation to expore it (no hidden packages like Vice City). The parts of the game that take place in this enourmous environment are largely limited to intervention in street crimes and car chases. The latter of which is pretty good fun for the first dozen or so times (shooting out the perps gas tank in slo-mo to make the car flip over is pretty cool) but eventually becomes a little dull. The rest of the game takes the form of mini missions which involve either sneaking around a building to reach an objective or shooting lots of bad guys using Max Payne style bullet time dives. This too is pretty good fun but after a while this too becomes a little tedious. There are also several fight sequences where your character is called upon to fight a boss (or series of bosses). These fights can be tricky and luckily these missions can usually be skipped in order to progress the game. All these game elements can be improved by a kind of RPG style 'levelling up system' and some of these upgrades are helpful for getting you through some of the tougher parts of the game. Ultimately this game dissapoints on two levels. Firstly that whilst all the game types are enjoyable enough (for a little while anyway) there is no real overall feeling of coherence between them, nor is the enourmous game world truly used as at least half the plot takes part in confined locations. Secondly and perhaps most importantly the game is too short. It took me about 8-10 hours to complete it and there really is no motivation to continue playing once done.... … Expand

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