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This game is awesome! It's like Kung-fu fighting mixed w/ max paine, GTA and need for speed all in one! The missions are fun and theres almost endless gameplay. You can complete the set missions or bust street crimes. If you like the mindless GTA style bloodbath then theres some of that too! You can go on killing rampages w/ the awesome bullet time(Max Paine,Dead to Rights). You can roam around the city of LA while jacking citizens cars and speeding around corners causing chaos. All of this of course will give u a bad cop rating. But you can do good deeds(busting criminals w/ out killing them and not killing civilians)to earn a good cop rating. The graphics are average(cmon,2d trees!?)and the music is cool. Most of the game is very realistic untill you get to the later levels. Dragons, Zombies, Magic? Last time i checked this wasn't a fantasy game. I guess i've talked enough so i'd just like to say 1 more thing... Buy this game! Tons of fun!

Fans of Grand Theft Auto and The Getaway have a treat in store for them. The landscape of True Crime, set in Los Angeles, is a full 250 square miles. That's 10 times bigger than Vice City!

Unlike the GTA series, this time you're on the side of the good guys. You are Nick Kang, an Asian-American who is part of an elite cop unit. You're a rough and tumble police officer who can easily shoot, fight or drive his way out of any situation.

The 'fake' maps of the GTA series and the 'real' map of London in the Getaway were mere training grounds for the HUGE map of Los Angeles and all its suburbs. Drive from Santa Monica into Hollywood, grabbing up to 50 different types of cars along the way. You're not carjacking them - you're commandeering them for police activities.

You have a good/bad rating and are penalized if you take out too many innocents in your quest to get the bad guys. You can find training centers to improve your skills, and take on a variety of missions. I liked this game MUCH more than the Getaway in that sense - instead of being stuck on missions in a single thread, you have much more freedom of exploring the city and deciding what to do next.

The navigation is also great. The streets actually have SIGNS on them - what a concept! You also are told on-screen where you are both in suburb, a mini-map and a street sign indicator. It always drove me crazy in The Getaway that a guy who LIVES in this town wouldn't even know where he was. True Crime handles that issue quite nicely.

The graphics on the XBox are extremely impressive. Car windows reflect light and can be shattered. When you run into a sign, it crumples. There are tattoo shops and fancy botiques along the streets. And even on the massive scale they cover, the trees have branches and the Japanese sports cars have legible kanji on the back.

I didn't like the default set of music - I was much more impressed with the GTA3/Vice City radio station selection which was just AMAZINGLY fun. But on the up side, the XBox lets you load your hard drive full of music and play it randomly. Build your own radio stations and enjoy them!

There are a good selection of sub-missions from hand-to-hand fighting, to shoot-outs, to car chases, to secret tails, to stealth infiltration and much more. There are slow-mo bullet time attacks, a fun sense of humor and destructable objects in your environments. On the down side, the game does get a little ... bizarre ... near the end, but I'll let you find that twist out for yourself.

Highly recommended for any GTAVC/Getaway fan!

I GOT TRUE CRIME A FEW MONTHS AGO.WHEN I FIRST STARTED PLAYING IT IT WAS FUN,BUT AFTER A WHILE IT GOT EXTREMELY REPEDETIVE.THE THING THAT I DONT LIKE ABOUT IT IS THAT THERE ARE ABOUT 3 TO 4 DIFFERENT KINDS OF MISSIONS.I AM A HUGE FAN OF KUNGFU,BUT THE KUNGFU IN THIS GAME HAS NO STYLE TO IT.THE DRIVING WASNJT ACTUALY THAT BAD,YOU CANT GET BIKES WHICH LEFT ME VERY DISSAPOINTED,BUT OTHER THAN THAT THE DRIVING WAS GOOD.THE SHOOTING WAS NOT THAT GOOD THOUGH,THE BULLETS MOVED SO SLOW THAT YOU COULD ACTUALY SEE THEM MOVING THROUGH THE AIR WHICH WAS PRETTY LAME,I AM NOT SPOSITIVE,BUT I DONT THINK YOU CAN SNIPE THE WHOLE GOOD BAD COP THING IS ANOYING,BUT IT IS COOL HOW YOU CAN ARREST PEOPLE AND SCUFF THE FOR DRUGS AND WEAPONS.THERE ARE NOT ENOUGH OPTIONS SUCH AS YOU CANT CHANGE THE RADIO STATION AND CANT UN A BUISINESS OR BUY THING OR ROB A STOR OR GET MONEY AND SO ON WHICH BY THE WAY ALL THESE THINGS YOU COULD DO IN GRAND THEFT AUTO 3 AND VICE CITY.THERE ARE NO GOOD CHEATS EITHER.BACK TO THE BULLETS I FORGOT TO ADD SOMETHING IMPORTANT THAT INLESS YOUR UP CLOSE THE BULLET WILL NOT HIT A MOVING TARGET IN ORDER TO HIT A MOVING TARGET YOU WILL HAVE TO FIRE AN UNREALISTIC AMOUNT OF BULLETS.JUST A SEGESTION NOT AN ORDER,BUT DONT BHUY IT IF THERE IS A GRAND THEFT AUTO AROUND AND IF YOU WANT TO BUY IT GET IT FOR $20 OR AROUND THAT PRICE RANGE.