True Crimes

Cipher · Post by **Cipher** » Sun Dec 28, 2003 10:21 pm

Okay, WTF is going on with TC? I checked out games stop and EB games a month ago and they both had release dates for the PC version of TC and now I can't find jack shat about the PC version. Please don't tell me the PC version was canned I was looking forward to buying the damn game for the PC.

I wouldn't think they would all of a sudden can the PC port at the last minute.

avenger69ie · Post by **avenger69ie** » Mon Dec 29, 2003 3:08 am

true crime was a pile of shit on the consoles, gta vic ecity is much better, for either console, dont waste your money on it on the pc, just download it when it flops.

PerroViejo · Post by **PerroViejo** » Mon Dec 29, 2003 7:34 am

Steve is so disapointed with TC that he pretty much warned me that if I picked it up he'd sumarilly chop off my thumbs to spare me the pain of going thru that POS.

Funny thing is, he made it sound like it was a fate better than death itself when compared with TC. He should know, as of last count Steve has finished Vice City 5 times.

Over the years, concerning videogames I've learned to listen to his critisim.

avenger69ie · Post by **avenger69ie** » Mon Dec 29, 2003 12:56 pm

who the hell is steve?

Kashluk · Post by **Kashluk** » Mon Dec 29, 2003 4:15 pm

Steve "where are my screenshots?" EvoG.
I think.

And I still can't understand why the hell should the model half the state when they're going to make LA look like a ghost town? Pretty useless work if you ask me... Who the hell needs a city if there are no people around?

atoga · Post by **atoga** » Mon Dec 29, 2003 5:32 pm

It looks pretty lame. The fact that there's only five mission types - and each is repetitive - is kind of a downside, and there's nothing really interesting added to the whole Grand Theft Auto "go around on the streets and do kewl stuff" idea.

Too bad; Los Angeles rules.

Nicolai · Post by **Nicolai** » Mon Dec 29, 2003 5:33 pm

Looks & Sounds like crap to me :arrow:

Cipher · Post by **Cipher** » Mon Dec 29, 2003 6:26 pm

Hmmm... I have only been able to play a little bit on a console but it seemed like it would be fun and from what I read it looks good too. I don't know though, maybe it's good if it doesn't come out I don't want another Deus Ex 2 dissapointment on my hands.

I would really like to see something with the open ended city and driving but be strong RPG with good combat

oh-well maybe in 5 or so years when technology catches up with my imagination. In other words looks like Mafia or GTA but tottaly different design and game play.

Kashluk · Post by **Kashluk** » Mon Dec 29, 2003 6:36 pm

Yeah, the main difference is that it sucks, unlike Mafia/GTA.

Cipher · Post by **Cipher** » Mon Dec 29, 2003 8:19 pm

Mafia was a great game, GTA it cool too.

The main thing I didn't like about GTA3 is it felt too much like a arcade game and not good enough story and game play.

avenger69ie · Post by **avenger69ie** » Mon Dec 29, 2003 9:22 pm

the story in gta3, and vice city was great, they had so many easter eggs it could have been two easter bunnys!! and the gameplay was a lot better than true fucking crime, the cars were better, and the weapons better, the stunts better, the missions more intricate, the SOUNDTRACK!!! Cipher, are you sure you played gta3 and vice city? if you didnt liek either of them, there is no WAY you could like true crime.

Burnov · Post by **Burnov** » Mon Dec 29, 2003 10:03 pm

I still want to try True Crime, the fact that it -appears- to add a decent melee combat system (aka: better than GTA's) appeals to me. However some of the grabs of the game in the television commercial had me cringe as I saw a guy with two automatic submachineguns "dancing" around another guy guns ablaze and nobody was dying, that bothers me. I purposely modded GTA3 so all the guns were pretty lethal. Nothing kills ambience like watching a guy run around taking a metric ton of bullets without dying to me.

I would rather have a fast brutal encounter in which I was shocked, surprised and died in a rather cinematic or at least so sudden way that I was left thinking "Where the heck did that come from!?" Than I would by being worn down by bullets that appear to do as much damage as a pea-shooter on crack.

The only way I could handle low damage values in a game is if it was done very well, ie full blow inverse kinematics, if the guy isn't dying immediately he might as well go into some really wicked-cool hitstun animations and get knocked about in real time from the impacts. Seeing a guy shug off bullets has been played out far too much since the days of quake and doom.

Sankis · Post by **Sankis** » Mon Dec 29, 2003 11:42 pm

I rented this game awhile ago and beat it. Seemed decent, but the 5 types of missions over and over got boring, as did the whole cheesy "Good Cop, Bad Cop" thing they had.

If you want realism, Burnov, this isn't the game. At the end of the game, the main char is toting akimbo .50 cals and killing zombies. Yes, zombies. One of the bosses is even an undead dragon thing. I'm not making this up.

The game's soundtrack consists entirely of rap, so if you arn't into rap then you'll be forced to turn off every song one by one. The game's random crime thing was kinda cool, but like everything else got boring after awhile. The only things I really liked about this game was that Christopher Walken does one of the voices.

Burnov · Post by **Burnov** » Mon Dec 29, 2003 11:55 pm

Well to be honest. I don't really expect realism from any console game. However as I indicated below. If it's done well and creatively. I can appreciate it, or at least overlook.

Zombies? .50 cal? What fifty caliber weapons would those be? Sniper rifles? That sounds rather ridiculous. Still I'm even more curious about it now. If it's only 7 bucks for some cheap entertainment or at best a good laugh. I'm up for it.

Jeff · Post by **Jeff** » Tue Dec 30, 2003 12:49 am

Burnov wrote:Zombies? .50 cal? What fifty caliber weapons would those be? Sniper rifles?

Golden Desert Eagles, of course!

Mihail · Post by **Mihail** » Tue Dec 30, 2003 1:13 am

I agree, TC is just some lame rip off of GTA, trying to cash in on the fame, and by adding some user wanted features

EvoG · Post by **EvoG** » Tue Dec 30, 2003 1:53 am

The big shit thing in TC is that they wasted that entire huge ass city. There is absolutely ZERO reason to explore, short of arresting people committing the same 12 crimes, and that gets old real fast. The thing about GTA was just that, exploration( as avenger said )...the world felt alive...not dry and empty like TC. Couple that with a dorky main character, sub-par vehicle physics and cheeze gun play, oh and yea, zombies, demon skulls and a dragon ( oops, did I spoil that! :roll: ).

Yea its crap and its NOT GTA in concept. It just has a city, you drive and walk and shoot um, thats it.

Cheers

Jeff · Post by **Jeff** » Tue Dec 30, 2003 1:49 pm

But you can play as SNOOP DOGGLE DOG, doesn't that count for something? :D

Cipher · Post by **Cipher** » Thu Jan 01, 2004 12:29 pm

avenger69ie wrote:the story in gta3, and vice city was great, they had so many easter eggs it could have been two easter bunnys!! and the gameplay was a lot better than true fucking crime, the cars were better, and the weapons better, the stunts better, the missions more intricate, the SOUNDTRACK!!! Cipher, are you sure you played gta3 and vice city? if you didnt liek either of them, there is no WAY you could like true crime.

No dude, I said I liked GTA. It was cool, I just wasn't impressed with the story, the missions were good and the game play rocks though. I haven't tried Vice yet though.

Mihail · Post by **Mihail** » Thu Jan 01, 2004 2:38 pm

GTA3 I thought was rather great, in alot of ways I liked how he did not speak, but that also limits the how much story-line you can do for a game, but GTA4 vice city was nearly a perfect game