True crime new york is such a shameless clone of gta, that is just not done as well. You play an undercover cop, who has to infiltrate gangs etc, and build reputation. You can do questionable acts, like deal drugs, kill people, break laws etc, to gain criminal notority (but will make your cop buddies question your real motives, and make them more likely to "blow" your cover), or you can help the cops by stopping robberies and so on. This is one neat thing about this game, you can kinda decide on what motivates your character, is he a good guy pretending to be bad, or vice versa?

Basically, the game is a 3rd person rpg shooter, almost the same in mechanics as GTA, but you can tell they did not spend too much time, this is a very glitchy game. For example, one of the weapons is the flashlight. You can buy it once, and you can turn it on, or throw it at an opponent. However, if you throw it, and don't pick it up, you can't then buy it again, or retrieve it from a shop. As far as I can work out, you can't get it back.

Things get worse, in the manual, it says you place weapons in car boots, to save them, and they will automatically reload etc. However, when I did this, and saved, the next time I went to my car, the weapons weren't there??? And when I went to the gun shop, it said that all the weapons were already owned!!! So basically I got through a few levels into the game, unlocked the shotgun, a wicked pistol, a silenced pistol, and a smg, and then lost them all, and onyl had the basic pistol left!


So, whats good:
I like the maps, and the driving mechanics. Both of these are exceedingly good. I also like the concept of the game, the way if you build you good notority, you can unlock nice police cars and weapons (pepper spray, police sniper rifles etc), or if you go bad, you can get jammed up criminal cars and butcher style weapons (sawn off shotgun etc).

The bad:
I get this feeling that this game is not finished. I can't really think of it as a game, its almost like the producers couldn't be bothered to finish it off properly, so just sent it out to be sold. A real shame, for this reason I give it 1/5 stars, its just way to glitchy, and i don't even consider it a game.