Classic Mobile Game Spotlight - True Crime: New York City

ZachMurphyQT · 2020-03-25T17:15:39Z

Zach writes: When the sequel to Activision’s sandbox police sim dropped in 2005, it was considered to be a bit of a technical step down for the Luxoflux-developed IP.

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eXclurel861d ago

My friend and I loved this game. The first one is always is my favorite though.

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P_Bomb861d ago

Had it, beat it, regret trading it in.

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Abnor_Mal861d ago

I had this game, was fun for the time. Trying to chase down Puffy and JLo in the limo fleeing the club shooting. I'm not really sure if you caught them or it was just a call on the police radio.

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Gamer79861d ago

It was good, but wouldn't call it amazing.

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MetroidFREAK21861d ago

I've loved this game since I got it Christmas 2005. Despite the glitches, I enjoyed it a lot

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boing1861d ago (Edited 861d ago )

It was awesome! I loved flashing the badge at pedestrians for random check.

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TheColbertinator860d ago

I loved planting drugs on people then arresting them to increase my cop points and unlocking new weapons.

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Terry_B861d ago

Its a True Crime that Sleeping Dogs never got a sequel and that the movie never happened.

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porkChop860d ago

Man, Sleeping Dogs was such a great game. Everything from the narrative, to the city/atmosphere, to the combat, etc., felt so fresh for an open world game.

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Profchaos861d ago

I loved this game on the PS2 it felt like a game on that scale shouldn't be possible GTA SA was better but true crime new York was denser and had way more explorable interiors. Adding functions like being able to check out the boots of cars shakedown shops etc really established a feeling of a living city it was played with bugs and glitches though din't get me wrong it was far from perfect but a solid game to play while waiting for the 360 era to start.

It's a shame it didn't sell well I remember reviewers hated it and it's funny that the franchise eventually became sleeping dogs which is now unfortunately DOA as well despite being a great game in its own right.

I wonder how different sleeping dogs would have been to true crime Hong Kong

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porkChop860d ago

True Crime: Hong Kong would have actually been the same game. It wasn't really a True Crime game. It started as Black Lotus. But Activision rebranded Black Lotus as a True Crime game to reboot the series. But from the start United Front Games were making the same game. The only thing that ever changed was the name.

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