True Crime: New York City (Xbox, 2005)

ths story line is very in depth. we start out with markus all bloody going into a thug house at the begging of the game soaked in blood and looking for vengence. you will be surprised that the first 4 minutes of game play is all out shoot outs with very distructable enviroments with massive blood shed and screaming hood rats that are literaly half naked. sounds promising already. you will then go into a tutorial which is oddly simple for the most part, but a little of the glitchy side, not too bad though. the game is all about the gta franchise with side missions, buying clothing for your charater, sleeping at a local run down cheap hotel just to restore strength and buying your own custom sound tracks at any record stores. of course being a game thats attempting to be to realistic in alot of ways, since you are a cop you get a paycheck ever so often from your police station to help pay for goods. the more good deeds and good cop stuff you do, the higher the paycheck. then you could pull the billy badass and sell drugs to pawnshops. hold up the burger joint and harass the manger for sweet green by gun point to his head. the drving scheme is the exactly the same as gta. the only defference is there is a icon with your car on the screen that indicates where it has taken damage. kinda like the game distruction derby for those who remember. even when people decide its open season on your vehicle is shows where the gun shots is. this game has it all. but the game has some skips and glitches on it that can be over looked very easily. if you can find this title for under 20 bucks and a realy big gta fan, you will be shocked how good this game is. it had very realistic graphics, very interactive enviroments, over use of the f bomb and body count city. if your looking for somthing thats just gore fest 3000 try a game like bloodrayne 2 or suffering ties that bind, if your wanting somthing to retry the gta kind of pace, then this is it. i give it a 4..... out of 5.

A MUST FOR ANY TRUE GAMER! TONS OF ACTION, SIDE JOBS, AND HUMOR!! WAY BETTER THEN THE FIRST! I'M LOOKING FORWARD TO THE THIRD! I'VE BEEN PLAYING FOR HOURS HOURS AND HOURS AND HAVE NOT YET GOTTEN A QUARTER OF THE WAY DONE. EVERYTHING IS INTERACTIVE! YOU HAVE CLOTHING STORES, YOU CAN PURCHASE MUSIC FROM THE MUSIC STORES, ETC.... THE STORES ACTUALLY CLOSE AT NIGHT SO YOU HAVE TO WAIT TIL MORNING TO BUY THINGS. ITS A GREAT GAME AND ANYONE SHOULD GET IT..

So many of the game reviews are picky. One of the biggest complaints about this game has been that it is the same old thing. Just like Grand Theft Auto. WHen was being like one of what is considered one of the best games ever been a bad thing? That said, if you don't like violence or profanity, avoid this game at all costs. It has both in spades. The game is

The item description was sold as "Good". However, the game does not play more than 15 minutes before freezing. It is not the system as it plays other games well, there are no finger prints or such, it is simply a damaged product.

Let me start by saying I am a huge fan of the True Crime series but the second installment just sucked balls! This game could have been great, this game could have given Grand Theft Auto a run for their money but due to many, many glitches it can’t pull it off. Yes it is better than Streets Of L.A. New York City never looked better in a video game. The sound track was great, the storyline and voice talent was good but the first day I started playing, the game froze on me four times within three hours. That’s not all, sometimes when driving around the city my radar/map would disappear for more than 30 seconds at a time leaving me lost. In certain mini games, you have to crouch down or hug the wall and the result was my character being stuck. (Objects around the city were moving just not me)I had to save my progress almost every time I got a new upgrade out of fear the game would freeze up again.(And NO! it’s not my Xbox) The bottom line: This game should have never made it out of development as fast as it did. Too many bugs and glitches ruined this game. It had a good story, better depth and it was fun to play but that just was not enough to warrant a purchase. My advice is avoid this game. The development team should hang their heads in shame.