True Crime: Streets of L.A. lets you use your brutal reputation and skill with a gun to good use -- putting a stop to the scum that's ruining L.A.!

Ex-cop Nick Kang is going deep undercover to stop the Chinese and Russian gangs that are destroying the city. The mobsters have met their match -- you're a one-man army, using their own tactics against them, to shut them down!

Bring down the crime syndicates of L.A. in driving missions, gunfights and martial arts showdowns across hundreds of square miles

The unpredictable branching storyline leads to a wide variety of new choices, with mission you undertake

Build skills as you travel across levels, as you explore the realistically designed city

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Graphics 9/10 the game has 240 miles of roaming space and being able to make the graphics look just as good outside as good inside is great. Grand Theft Auto 3 and Vice City are more colorful but they have a trailing shade look behind them. I would give GTA 3 and VC a 8.7/10 for graphics.

Sound is a easy 10/10 The soundtrack is amazing and awsome how you can use it. There is no radio button but your able to play any song you want by a selection just like Tony Hawk series.
The guns are a loud load of fun to here and the car engines are diffrent for each car and same with weapons.

Control 9.4/10 There not bad and there not great there just like Splinter Cells controls. The way this game beats Grand Theft Auto series is in the aiming. You can select what you want to shoot at and not only one but two targets.

Gameplay 10/10 You can choose to arrest people or kill people.
Firing a warning shot or show your badge is how to put people down and arrest them. You get a huge selection of cars from
many of your known brand companys. Just to name a couple Dodge Dakota, Chevy Trailblazer, Ford Mustang, Ford 69 GT, Dodge Viper, Porshe, Dodge Neon, Bus, Ice cream Truck, Street Bike, Taxi, and Cop car.

Shooting 9/10 Just as good as GTA 3, VC but better aiming and more options to shoot.

Fighting 8/10 It can sometimes be hard and long and learning the tricks and finishers might take awhile. Adding wrestling moves is a smart move also. If you want me to put it straight the fighting is like Dead To Rights.

Driving 9.7/10 Oh yeah it is definetly a high point of the game.
You can easily take control of any car and how it drives with a control setup similar to the new Need For Speed Undergrounds.

Running speed frame rates per second 7/10 It has wierd glitches sometimes and some wierd slowdowns but it rarely happens unless you get alot of action going and have a vehicle running. I have had no slow downs on fighting but have had to turn it of because of loading and it making a glitch out of it. Timesplitters 2 runs at a beautiful 60 frame rates per sencond and I would estimate True Crime Streets of LA at about 40 FRPS not bad for a 240 mile city and more live people than GTA 3 or VC.

I would give True Crime Streets Of LA a 9.7 out of 10 in all and would easily say its better than Grand Theft Auto 3 and Vice City. Rockstar im sorry someone has finally stole your fame and fortune and looks like they could do it again. Have fun and I would highly reccomend this game.

8 of 9 found the following review helpful:

One of my favorite games of all time!Nov 16, 2003
By mdizzog
My gosh, in all my years... This game seems to take all the elements from GTA and improve upon them in some way.

The story is great. There are multiple stories and different outcomes will occur depending on what you do. The characters in the stories are great also. The voice acting is probably the best i've ever seen in any video-game. Every character has the perfect voice actor. Christopher Walken and that chick from The Fast and the Furious both do voices. The main character, Nick, has a great voice that fits him perfectly. His voice actor also knows how to make his lines actually funny.

As for fighting, some of the best! The camera is magnificent, and I only turn it when I need to(which is rarely). Plus, fighting is not just "Hit x over and over!". You can do combos, tackels, kicks, and punches. They are fun though. As you fight you can destroy things around the room. You can get knocked into some tables or even through a fence! Driving is the same way because you can drive into and through basically anything, which is fun.

Guns rule. I mean, basically the infinite ammo for your basic pistols works well. You will never have to die because you can't find ammo or you run out. There are plenty of upgrades for your guns and ways to improve your gun methods. Pretty soon you will be able to shoot 2 guns in different directions, and shoot precision shots. The coolest thing is shooting the gas tanks of cars. I once shot this car in the back and it flipped over and crushed 2 criminals!

There are quite a few extras also. You can solve crimes happening around the city, and you can check citizens for illegal things. I like just cruising.

The graphics are basically better than GTA slightly. As in, The buildings all look different and the areas are much more realisitic. There aren't real ramps, but your car can flip and stuff. Also, when your car gets shot it will get holes in windows and lose wheels. Another thing, they took 240 square miles of Los Angelos. For those of you that don't know, thats pretty much 15 times the size of GTA, and im going to estimate 5 times the size of the Getaway. The Getaway is kinda like this game, but this game takes place in the USA not in London or whatever.

Basically I would reccomend you buy this game. Its a huge area that lets you see huge skyscrapers, brilliantly done lens flare and far clipping effects, a great atmosphere in the day and night, and of course some of the best voice acting around. Who knows, mabye you will get to know Los Angelos better than someone who lives there.

5 of 5 found the following review helpful:

destruction and a lot of nonsenseJan 11, 2005
By Arnout Koeneman
No it's not as good as GTA.
So, enough said about that.

This game is so much fun!!
I can drive around, doing nothing at all, for hours.
I can fight and shoot anyone I want and run everybody over with a car and it's so much fun!
It has a low moral standard for sure, but I'm not an idiot who thinks this would be cool in real life. In a game world it's fun though.
Ofcourse you can choose your own destiny in this game, being a good cop or bad cop, but the Nick character isn't very likeable to begin with, he's a real jerk. I cannot identify myself with him and therefore I didn't feel commited to be a good cop.

The story is so awfull that it's actually really fun. You listen to the most cheesy and cliché dialogues. I had to laugh really loud when the Chinese guy who Nick fights appears to be his brother. "I thought you had lost it bro" So cliché and crap, but therefore hilarious.

Ok I will summon up the good and bad points:

Good:

- The crap storyline. Good for a few good laughs.
- The driving, which is easy, straighforward and with some cars you can go really fast. Each car has its own way of driving and steering which is fun too.
- The fighting is easy, but it sometimes does require more than simple button mashing.
- The graphics are pretty good, yes Gamecube can do better, but LA looks pretty amazing to me.
- The freedom you have to go anywhere you like.

Bad:

- Nick, the main character, is a jerk. A typical B-movie superhero. But in the setting of the story it works fine.
- Many times "precision targetting" isn't that precise at all.
- "Precision targetting" while driving does slow you down, you'll fail to catch the bad guys.
- Long, very long loading times. There isn't much continuity due to this annoying aspect.
- Sometimes the Hip Hop got on my nerves.

Overall 4 stars, but 5 stars for fun.

4 of 4 found the following review helpful:

Cool GameNov 14, 2003

This is an awesome game for the Nintendo system. The game is better than GTA in many ways but is lacking in others. Ther is not a wide variety of weapons but it's easy to shoot. The driving is awesome and the freeway is fun. Although, I was disappointed that their were no motorcycles in the game. I think the flying in GTA is too overwhelming. The cool thing is that you are a cop so you can do almost anything you want. The slo-mo is awesome.

2 of 2 found the following review helpful:

GTA FOR GCNov 26, 2004
By gamer "nnnick"
I love this game, it's cool just causing destruction, i beat all the missions, so now i just kill innocent people and the cops, and steal cars, my favorite thing is finding a shotgun then shoot at a car and person inside just comes out and bam, they died by the explosion. Best game nintendo has ever, even more good then [...] exclusives for the gamecube like mario.

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