True Crime: Streets of LA Xbox
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77 out of 100

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7.8 out of 10

Generally favorable reviews- based on 27 Ratings

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  • Summary: As Nick Kang, your brutal reputation and lethal skills have landed you a nasty job: heading up an undercover task force to stop the Chinese and Russian gangs from terrorizing Los Angeles. Drive, fight, and blast your way through a massive array of unpredictable missions, using stealth techniques, martial arts moves, and an ask-questions-later arsenal. True Crime features a branching storyline that gives you the freedom to complete missions as you choose and face the consequences later. The hardcore streets of L.A. have met their match.… Expand

Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 31 out of 48
  2. Mixed: 15 out of 48
  3. Negative: 2 out of 48
  1. Maxim Online
    100
    The shooting control takes some getting used to, but stick with it and you’ll advance through a solid plot laced with a meaty hip-hop soundtrack, celebrity voices, and…drumroll…a playable Snoop Dogg! You’ll never need MapQuest in L.A. again.
  2. Game Informer
    85
    Lacks the one element that really made "GTA" the phenomemon it is: It's just not cool. [Jan 2004, p.150]
  3. Worth Playing
    73
    Bits such as the fighting engine can be fun even though it is probably the most flawed aspect of the entire game, though when fighting the tougher enemies in the game those flaws are quickly frustrating, to the point of some people returning the game.
  4. games(TM)
    40
    Half the game it should have been. Whoever came up with the inventive level structuring or spent months mapping LA has every reason to be furious with the lacklustre implementation of their ideas. [Christmas 2003, p.106]
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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 13 out of 21
  2. Mixed: 4 out of 21
  3. Negative: 4 out of 21
  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
  2. GamerBoy
    8
    I like this game because it is Huge in the citys. The game has 400 miles of map witch i think is very good for a Xbox game. but they have not a very BIG database of people that walk the streets. I think the fuuny bit of this game is the way you can stop the people and check them it's cool. Also the way that nick fight it very cool, i would gave the sorryline a 7 out of 10 because it is all the same for game of this sort! and do you not think they the "game maker" so have put in better car or for all those gta loavers out there a honda V1 bike I like this game in the whole but they may have to edit bits for the next True Crime game Thanks, GAMERBOY … Expand
  3. bobdabuilder
    7
    besides the fact its basically a gta rip off(you can free roam and kll anyone) its great!
  4. 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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