True Crime: Streets of LA casts you as Nick Kang, a cop for the Los Angeles Police Department. Due to your extreme methods of policing and your ability to cause massive amounts of property damaged, you are suspended, only to be recruited by the EOD (Elite Operations Division), where your reckless attitude is a plus.

240 square miles of Los Angeles has been accurately rendered for you to cause havoc in. As a cop, you must behave when doing your duty. The game has a good cop/bad cop system, that gives you points based on what you do. Beat up an innocent pedestrian or run over a criminal that's surrendered and your rating will go down. Eventually, you can lose stats you've built up. Arrest a surrendering criminal or frisk an innocent that's acting suspicious, and your rating will go up, enabling you to upgrade certain aspects.

There are two main modes of getting around; on foot or in car. You can hijack (or, in police terms, commedate) various cars. Sports cars, sedans, etc. are yours for the taking. Each has various handling and stats. Since you're a well trained cop, you're capable of firing your weapon while driving. In an open top vehicle, you can aim anywhere. The other method is walking. While walking, you may encounter the odd street crime or suspicious looking pedestrian, which will let you get good or bad points, depending.

True Crime features a branching storyline with three different endings, depending on how good or bad you are. In missions where you're required to do something, failing does not mean repeating the mission. If you fail to tail someone to a hideout, you'll have a harder time finding that hideout in a later mission, whereas if you capture someone, your next mission will be easier.

Aside from gunplay, you're well trained in martial arts. You can pull off various punch and kicks, as well as combos. You can also grapple and possibly throw someone, ala a wrestling move.

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Alternate Titles

"真实犯罪：洛城街头" -- Chinese Title (Simplified)

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User Reviews

There are good clones and there are bad clones	Windows	SifouNaS (1172)
"Nick Kang In Pursuit Of Another Dumb-Ass Criminal"	Xbox	Classic Nigel (145)
I didn't even know you could top Vice City!	PlayStation 2	EboMike (2591)
The GTA and Brandon Lee's fame is blended in solid action about fight of Chinese-like officer with mafia, demons, and "red threat".	Windows	POMAH (18637)
GTA with more balls!	Xbox	Jason Hamilon (3)

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The Press Says

Next Level Gaming	Xbox	May 16, 2004	92 out of 100	92
GameZone	PlayStation 2	Nov 23, 2003	9 out of 10	90
XBox-Zone	Xbox	Nov 10, 2003	86 out of 100	86
JeuxMac.com	Macintosh	Apr, 2005	4 out of 5	80
Worth Playing	Windows	May 23, 2004	8 out of 10	80
Game Shark	PlayStation 2	Nov 30, 2003	B	75
GameSpot	PlayStation 2	Nov 04, 2003	7.2 out of 10	72
PC Gameplay (Benelux)	Windows	Jul, 2004	70 out of 100	70
Armchair Empire, The	Windows	Jun 27, 2004	6.5 out of 10	65
GameCola.net	PlayStation 2	Jun, 2004	5.58 out of 10	56

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Trivia

Crime author Robert Crais filed a lawsuit, stating that the game's lead character Nick Kang was essentially a rip-off of Elvis Cole, the ex-cop antihero that features in nine of his novels. After some weeks of negotiation with Activision, he dropped it.

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