Meeting violence with violence, True Crime: The Streets of New York

Since the success of Rockstar's GTA3, it has been controversial and litigated for its violent and obscene content. But the game, which allows players to vent to the end, is still popular with many players. Players can do whatever they want in the game, the real life dare to think but dare not do things in the game to play freely. Sales of these games have skyrocketed, and the subsequent two sequels of the series, GTA: Vice City and GTA: San Andreas, have pushed the GTA genre to its peak. Luxoflux's True Crime: Streets of LA, released in September 2003, is also a GTA title. After two years, the sequel True Crime: The Streets of New York is about to meet players.

The "True Crime" series, which used the GTA Justice edition as its tagline, will release a sequel, "True Crime: The Streets of New York," in May. New York City), the game design company Luxoflux stressed that the game increased the car chase, shoot-out shooting and boxing action of the three major elements, and integrated into the Hollywood style of film, so that players taste violence to fight violence, show the dream of heroism.

A bizarre revenge story with twists and turns

Despite being the second installment in the series, True Crime: The Streets of New York is loosely tied to its predecessor, with players taking on the role of Marcus Reed, the African-American son of Isaiah Reed, the head of the criminal underworld. After Isaiah is arrested by the police, the player is raised by his father's friend Terry Higgins, who eventually teaches Marcus to become a police officer, where he receives rigorous and systematic training in shooting, fighting, and driving. He is in charge of the most prosperous Manhattan district in New York, from the New York black residential area to Chinatown and then to Times Square, are his responsibility, here is a high incidence of criminal cases in the area, is to adhere to the heart of justice, become a criminal star to punish evil and promote good, or go with the flow, become a greedy, venal black heart police officer, the development and evolution of the story, It will all be in the hands of the player. Due to the conflict between the past background and the present identity, the player must arrest the criminal who is related to the family. Not only that, but when the player is promoted to detective, his adoptive father Terry is mysteriously killed, and the whole story provides a character depth rarely seen in action games.

High realistic scene, attention to detail description

In order to bring players a closer to the real world, True Crime: The Streets of New York, like GTA, will be a certain proportion of the game and the real world time exchange, but also the weather, the change of the month, for example, Christmas, the street will be everywhere decorated with lights to celebrate the holiday; During the duty period, the weather may also change, sudden heavy rain or blowing snow and so on. In terms of the game scene, "True Crime: The Streets of New York" includes New York's famous landmarks such as the Statue of Liberty, Times Square, Broadway Avenue, etc., which completely presents New York City's people coming and going, as well as dark and messy, and players can also hear the 1960s and 1970s punk, tongue and rock style music filled the streets of New York City. In the game, players can choose to drive to any location by themselves, the "satellite navigation system" so that players do not have to worry about getting lost in this complex urban maze, and if you are in a hurry, you can also use the "public transportation system", which takes only a few seconds to automatically transport players to the designated location. Moreover, the places in these games can form interaction with the player: such as the car factory can transform the car, the martial arts can learn new fighting skills.

Therefore, although the graphics, like similar games, are not very good, but the details of the game environment, the game is strive to be true.

A free choice of weapons, a variety of torture weapons

In addition, "True Crime: The Streets of New York" also has a new feature, the entire city will be divided into a number of precincts, each precinct has a different level of crime, some are relatively peaceful, and some are very violent every day. When a crime occurs in the area, the game screen will pop up a window warning, at this time the player can choose to deal with. Solving crimes in each jurisdiction does not affect the main story and is not mandatory, but as a member of the New York Police Department, it is the player's duty to reduce the crime rate in the jurisdiction.

This game does away with the "crime" system of the previous game and increases the exciting fighting and shooting system. The game, like its predecessor, takes place in the third person, with a larger number of weapons than a typical first-person shooter, with a total of 35 guns and 23 fighting weapons to choose from, as well as the ability to use flamethrowers or rocket launchers to fight the New York massacre. The John Woo action gunfight scene remains in the sequel, in which players can activate bullet time, jump forward and back left and right as time slows down, and fire at enemies in a cool shooting style.

As for fighting, as the game progresses, players will be able to learn a variety of advanced fighting skills in the New York City Police Department headquarters, and when they want to fight with the enemy unarmed or with hand-to-hand weapons to cut each other, they can choose to switch different fighting moves to fight the enemy. In addition to general weapons, most of the props and items in the scene can be moved to use, including ovens, electric stoves, various machines, refrigerators, teapots, pans, tables and chairs, etc., can become the player's hands to attack and use props. Stoves, ovens, freezers and even boiling water can be used to torture criminals. If there are players who like to abuse the enemy, you may wish to wait patiently for the launch of this game.