PS2 Underrated Gem: True Crime: New York City
122This is a series of gameplay vids I'm doing highlighting overlooked games for the PS2.
Overshadowed by the GTA series, the True Crime series seems at first like a second rate ripoff.
Though I've only kinda played the original (Streets of L.A.), and wasn't too impressed with it, I decided to take a $10 chance with this one, and was pleasantly surprised.
Unlike the way I play GTA, I've found myself not going on huge murderous rampage sprees. In fact, I find that I like doing the random police calls in this game, and it makes up for not killing everything I see.
I used to think that playing from a cop's perspective would cripple the fun, but I really enjoy the way this game makes being a cop seem like more than a title. You'll constantly have the ability to respond to a variety of emergency calls (or you can just ignore them and play the missions), or even shake down random people on the street. Throughout the game you'll gain police levels in an almost RPG kind of way which unlocks new weapons, and new vehicles, and etc.
The combat system is also more in depth than GTA's, and the dual stick control is a godsend.
The game isn't perfect though. Even though it's graphics are amazing for a PS2 game of this type, the game does have a lot of technical issues. There a lot of glitches in this game. Some even lead to freezups, and other weird glitches. My best advice is to save often.
Though I'd say that GTA is better, True Crime New York City is still a great game for those who want to get into it.
True Crime: New York City is also available on the Xbox, Gamecube, and PC.