True Crime: New York City (2005) (VG)

Writer:

Matthew Cirulnick (writer)

Release Date:

15 November 2005 (USA)

Genre:

Action | Adventure | Crime | Thriller

Tagline:

New Crime. New City.

Plot:

Former gangster, now street cop Marcus Reed tries to uncover who is behind the murder of his friend and mentor, Lt. Terrance Higgins.

Plot Keywords:

Nypd | Taxi | Grenade | Motorcycle | Handgun

Cast

Avery Waddell	...	Det. Marcus Reed (voice)
Laurence Fishburne	...	Isaiah Reed (voice)
Mickey Rourke	...	Terrence Higgins (voice)
Christopher Walken	...	Gabriel Whitting (voice)
Mariska Hargitay	...	Deena Dixon (voice)
Esai Morales	...	Captain Victor Navarro (voice)
Brian George	...	Freddie the Cabbie (voice)
Redman	...	Himself (voice)
Traci Lords	...	Madam Cassandra Hartz (voice)
Beetlejuice	...	Zeke (voice)
John Melendez	...	(voice)
James Hong	...	Mr. Lin (voice)
Tia Texada	...	Street Racing Promoter (voice)
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Paolo Andino	...	Rey
Philip Anthony-Rodriguez	...	Director
Susham Bedi
Doris Belack
Fred Berman	...	Vincent Tuzzi
Sheryl Bernstein
Corey Burton
Laura Kai Chen
Jennifer Chu	...	Vivian Chen (voice)
Sam Coppola
Kathryn Cressida
Monique Gabriela Curnen	...	Dispatcher (voice) (as Monique Curnen)
Francesca DiMauro
Jeremy Dunn	...	Marus
Greg Eagles
Venida Evans
Quinton Flynn	...	Alfie / Nosferatu
Olga Fonda
Candy Ford
Yoko Fumoto
Misha Gonz-Cirkl	...	(voice) (as Misha Gonzales)
Jay Gordon
Golda Inquito
Marina Kotovnikov	...	Russian Civilian Woman (voice)
Phil LaMarr
Dana Lee
Yin Lei
Telly Leung	...	Fei Lao / Peasant
Dawnn Lewis
Steven Littles	...	Lavar
Kari Loya
Jason Ma	...	Tommy
Tirlok Malik
Danny Mann	...	Tony
Vanessa Marshall	...	Candi / Secretary
Chuck McCann	...	Gino
Sam McMurray
Alvaro Mendoza
Justine Miceli
Pino Moreau
Jeanne Mori	...	Kobi
Phil Morris	...	President Lincoln
Matt Prescott Morton
Mark Moseley	...	Handler / Curator / Doorman (voice)
Masasa Moyo		(as Masasa)
Rene Mujica	...	Manuel
Yuri Naumkin
Laraine Newman
Natasha Perez	...	(voice)
Tony Pimental
Iraida Polanco
Carmine Raspaolo
Jane Runnalls	...	Metropolitan Opera Singer
Socorro Santiago	...	Teresa
Cathy Shim	...	Vivien Chen - Yakuza Party Girl
André Sogliuzzo	...	Orderly / Donnie
Gary Anthony Sturgis	...	Bouncer
Margaret Tang	...	Racey Stacey
Armando Valdes-Kennedy
Ben Wang	...	Jing / Cronie
Stephanie Wang
Cornell Womack	...	Benjami
Michael Yama
Richard Yearwood	...	President Hamilton
Jerry Ying	...	Leeland
Keone Young
Ruth Zhang

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Certification:

UK:18 | USA:M

Company:

Luxoflux

Trivia:

When Marcus (Avery Waddell) performs the first "Freddie the cabbie" side mission, he says, "Next they'll have me flying remote-control toys." This is a direct reference to Rockstar's Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (where Zero (David Cross) used RC helicopters to do battle with his nemesis Berkley).

Goofs:

Factual errors: In virtual Manhattan, there is a street called Frederick Douglass St. In the real Manhattan, that street name is called Frederick Douglass Blvd.

Quotes:

Marcus Reed: You have the right to remain, blah blah blah.

Movie Connections:

Spoofs Pulp Fiction (1994)

Total garbage.

True Crime: New York City is a pitiful attempt to cash in on the urban themed games, the game is the sequel to True Crime: Streets of LA, which was a decent attempt to cash in on the popularity of the GTA games.

One of the problems comes from the story, so bare bones and generic I was guessing the plot quarter of the way in.(And mostly right too!) The script is pretty bad, even though they've got Traci Lords and Christopher Walken in this game, they drop F-bombs and the N word every few seconds.

The only glimmer of hope in this game should come from the Graphics, sound, and gameplay... right? Well maybe the sound, but that's it.

The graphics are nothing short of unimpressive and uninspired, sure they mapped New York down to almost every nook and cranny, but it's useless when you've got nothing to do.

The gameplay combines sneaking,fighting,driving, into a mish mash of awfulness I can't even comprehend.

The sound is probably the only thing that saves this game, it has a combination of rap and the New York music scene.(The Ramones, Blondie, etc.)

But, here comes the worst part of the game. The bugs. Not your regular house hold bugs, but "destroy your game permanently" bugs. The x-box version gets the worst of it, including a bug that makes it impossible to finish the game. But that's not the only bug, oh no. Enemeies get hung up in objects and cars disappear. Which makes you have to restart the mission you where on at the time.

Overall, I give this mess 1/10. It's quite possibly the worst game i've ever played, don't even bother. Save yourself $50 or $5 dollars.