Plus, the progression setup in the game, allowing you to play out the role of a cop in a stand-up or dastardly manner, makes working through the game compelling in spite of the game's many problems.Īnd, if nothing else, at least the game looks pretty most of the time.
That may sound a bit monotonous, but the many side missions throughout the game, where you'll be doing all the standard cop routines with a certain flare, help break all that up. Most of them play out as elaborate shoot outs that lead to a boss character of sorts. The mostly on foot missions are interesting enough, if not for the aforementioned faults. On foot, things fare a bit better since the manual targeting system is sharp enough to leave you with few frustrations and plenty of dead bodies in your wake - it's just a shame that so much of the body county is racked up due to the brain dead AI that'll have enemies casually standing around during fire fights. Then, with both hands typing, you realise how utterly shoddy the port is - the only difference between Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing and True Crime: NYC is that Mavis comes across as a believable character. The second part of the game is your tutorial, where you're coaxed by the prompts to come off your mouse and use the keypad. What's more, with occasional dips to eight frames-per-second, we're barely dealing with animation.Īs for the controls, you can either aim with the unresponsive mouse controls or press Shift-F to automatic aim, shoot and kill. It's not like we're dealing with physics here. What's all that processor power doing? Every person dies in the exact same way, for Christ's sake. It's staggering that a game that looks this average - a patch of flowers in Central Park looks like a purple and green chessboard - could be so demanding. This introduces you to the game's enduring themes: shaky frame-rates, awkwardly ported controls and embarrassing dialogue. First, there's the five minute pre-game set-up, recounting your days as a street thug. For review, True Crime: NYC can be split into three parts.
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