True Crime: New York City

The Good
In True Crime New York City you play as Marcus Reed a gangster turned cop who when his gang tries to murder his father Isaiah Reed and Marcus himself but they fail Marcus decides to get revenge and kill his fellow gang members once he kills everybody his father’s friend Detective Terry Higgins finds Marcus in a blood soaked rage and pulls some strings to have him get off crime and train him to be a cop after his training and gaining his police badge he goes with Terry in the streets to get some pointers before being set on his on but while Terry goes into a building to take care of business the building explodes killing Terry and leaves no answers as to who is responsible so Marcus sets out to find his mentors murder by going after four drug cartel leaders in New York.

In the game you do missions such as shooting drug dealers collecting evidence interrogating main leaders or fist to fist fighting goons in between missions Marcus can bust random crimes like Domestic Disturbances, Hold Ups, bomb threats, or hostage situations doing such missions has rewards such as getting Promotions, or cleaning up a precinct of New York and Eventually the entire city getting promotions allows you access to better cars, better guns, and higher pay checks with which you can buy food for health and learn fighting moves and techniques such as Karate, Tae Kwon Doe, and Tai Boxing.

Just like in Streets Of LA you can walk the line of good/bad cops but in this installment more in depth like the ability to extort clerks and planting evidence on civilians or shooting an unarmed perp and you can except bribes from criminals while being a good cop requires you to refuse such temptations.

There are a such thing as informant missions which you can do should you fail an interrogation which is a hard thing to do cause the interrogations are easy to do and there is little room for failure but it’s nice to have.

The fact that New York is depicted accurately is defiantly a good thing and even though the graphics are better than Streets Of LA the graphics still aren’t going to be getting any awards but they aren’t horrible.

The music in this game is improved from the original like more music for a whitey like me and that rap that’s in it is more old school you know when rap was a good music genre and songs from the Ramones, Bob Dylan, and White Zombie.

The Bad
One of the things this game does do wrong is the atrocious cussing not that it offends me but its like the developers put it there basically only cause they can like you’ll frisk a guy and find drugs on his person and he’ll say “Douche” or you’ll be chasing a perp and you get in the way of a civilian and they’ll Yell “What The Fuck” also civilians will flick you off and others for virtually no reason.

This game does have a lot of bugs none of them are that bad except for one in a mission when it makes completing the mission difficult most other bugs just involve clipping and it occasionally freezes but not that often.

The Bottom Line
This game is underrated not nearly as bad as some reviewers have said and does just about everything better than the first one so if you enjoyed the original this game is for you even if you didn’t this one improves over that one.