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True Crime - Streets of LA (PS2)
by dirtyripper
True Crime: Streets of LA is a third-person shooter game for the PS2 published by Activision in 2003. You play the role of Nick Kang, a Chinese-American maverick detective who is coming back onto the force after having been suspended from duty. On his first day back, he is asked to solve a series of bombings in the Chinatown area which ... leads him into a vast conspiracy involving drug dealers, the Russian Mafia and the Chinese Triads. Initially seeming to be a straightforward case, Kang soon finds himself in over his head and unsure of who he can trust.
True Crime was released shortly after GTA 3, and has been accused of trying to be a clone of that more popular game. Like GTA, True Crime shares the open-world type gameplay system in which you are free to explore the city and make your own decisions to an extent. One way in which this game differs from GTA is the morality-based storyline. You can choose to be a corrupt police officer, doing whatever needs to be done to complete your mission or can play it by the book and abide by the rules. The way in which you act affects the story, as some missions go different ways depending on your choices. The controls are quite straightforward, being similar to most third-person shooter games for the PS2 and so are easy to get to grips with. Plus there is atraining sequence enar the start so you can get accustomed to the controls. The storyline is engrossing with plenty of twists and turns to keep you interested, and the fact that you make your own decisions and decide where the story goes is a nice touch. There is also a great voice cast including Christopher Walken and Gary Oldman.
The graphics are adequate but nothing special and the combat itself is nothing particularly special although I did like the combination of gun fights and martial arts that is used. Overall I'd say it was a very entertaining game that is well worth a play but is not particularly memorable.
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Call of Duty - Finest Hour (PS2)
by TheReviewGuy
This COD is the first ever one, well the first original one in the series. This COD is a classic and a great game and the campaign takes ages to complete, even on easy difficulty levels. It also has multiplayer on it too, online play for the PS2. The graphics and battles push the PS2's processor to the limit, but producing outstanding ... results. Epic battles are throughout the campaign. You charge towards a building with over a hundred soldiers taking down enemies from windows, and you can choose what way you go round. The game is great and features different locations including Germany, Africa and more. The control and feel is loose but good nevertheless. You get to ride tanks, man turrets on vehicles and more in this epic game with hundreds of missions packed in. One of the best PS2 games I have ever played, will keep you entertained for ages and has lot's of different types of missions to do.
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True Crime - Streets of LA (PS2)
by sparkymarky1973
True Crime: Strets Of L.A is an awesome PS2 classic that is often over-looked by gamers who assume this, quite wrongly, to be just yet another inferior Grand Theft Auto clone. In fact, this is very cleverly done and has a personality all of its own ~ at times playing more like an interactive movie with alternative endings to an actual ... game itself! And complete the game and as a bonus, you can also choose to do Police missions as none other than Snoop Dog! How cool is that?
You play the role of mixed-heritage Police Officer, Nick Kang; an Elite Operations Division (EOD) operative caught up in a crime war betwen opposing factions of the Triad and Russian Mafia whilst trying to find out the truth about what happened to his father. The game encompasses the usual array of game-styles of driving, shooting and hand-to-hand combat all in a third person perspective but the twist here is that all these skills can be improved by visiting training centres, such as a Japanese Dojo, where you can take part in challenges to earn valuable power-ups. As well as the story missions, you can also do standard Police Missions taking down a batch of ordinary criminals across an extremely authentic and accurate representation of the real L.A much in the same way as The Getaway was set in an authentic representation of London! This gives the game just that extra edge and though the story does go off a bit on a bit of a supernatural tangent, it is never knowingly not fun to play!
I loved this though found it a little bit easy in places to complete. Depending on the actions you take during the game, the ending varies but one thing I paticulary liked was the way that you are presented with a story map showing how your actions have branched you off from the "true" ending giving you a chance to experince every alternative!
Another thing I loved about this was the introduction of a friend of your fathers who is voiced by none other than the legendary Christopher Walken! It is almost worth playing the game just for that itself!
This is tons better than any of the Driver games and much more than just another GTA rip-off! It is not perfect but then neither are all the GTA games but it is good to play a similar game from the perspective of the good guys for once and if you are looking for something different, then you really should check this out!
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