True Crime: New York City

True Crime: New York City (2005)

by Exakt Entertainment, Luxoflux, Activision, Aspyr Media, Hands-On Mobile
Genres:Adventure, Shooter
Themes:Open world, Action, Sandbox
Game modes:Single player
Story:Be a good cop or a bad cop in the streetwise action game True Crime: New York City. You can explore the authentically modeled streets of New York City as a police officer tracking down criminals and administering justice. The game features a diverse weapon set, as well as a mixed offering of fighting styles that you can use to take out those who stand in your way. In addition to combat on foot, the game features driving sequences and shootouts. Laurence Fishburne, Christopher Walken, and Mickey Rourke contribute their voice talent to the game as well.Show more
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user avatar@Radsodzuser avatar@Radsodz
January 29, 2025
I played a lot back then on PlayStation 2,the game is incredible,I remember stopping completing missions when it started to rain,to drive around the map listening to the incredible playlist of songs, being able to play again would be very nostalgic. (Sorry for mistakes, I used Google Translate).
Oh man what a blast from the past, very ambitious GTA clone with LA fully recreated, super huge map and great soundtrack! how cool to hear MCR album deep cuts on it, the cop approach makes this pretty cool where you can just arrest instead of kill, altho it's a bit surface level and repetitive, it's still pretty creative game, enough for me to have had it back then and finish it
Loved this game growing up. spent many nights with my friends passing the game pad back and forth. would love to play it again. i wish this series would return.
Fun game. I played it growing up. The only open world crime game that was better than True Crime is GTA San Andreas and GTA Vice City back then. I still played this game just as much. I would switch between them all the time. I mostly played GTA San Andreas and True Crime New York. It hits all the right buttons. Maybe its because I get to choose between being a good cop or a dirty cop. The story isn't the greatest but the gameplay is just fun. We didn't appreciate it enough when we had it. It feels like a spoof of a lot cop gritty cop shows and movies. That's one reason why I loved it as a teen. To me, this is the ultimate alternative to GTA if you don't want to be a hired gun in the underworld. We desperately need this series to return.
loved playing true crime one of the best games ever loved how we were a cop a true different side to the game instead of always robbing and stuff like that on gta
user avatar@EwClGruser avatar@EwClGr
May 28, 2025
This was a game with a lot of troubles on PC as it was based from the GameCube version. But I played it because I had it on PS2 back then. This was the game that helped me get through GTA SA. It sounds dumb now but at the time I took around a year to finish GTA SA and went to play The Getaway and its following title The Getaway Black Monday. I had my load of serious sided open world games and The Getaway got me into "you're a cop" type of game. But then when I saw True Crime NYC, I got the perfect mix between the cop play and the unseriousness of GTA. It went great, I loved the story back then and know that the gameplay incentive to get better cars helped me get through the annoying good cop techniques. Now that I've finished Sleeping dogs many times, I'd just love to get the opportunity to play its predecessor without the hassle of tweaking your installation with many things.
One of the first police games I played alongside streets of la would love to see this game brought back to life on GOG make it happen for us I used to have many days and nights sat there playing this game and still now I want to play it
I love the replay ability for this game. It had like 3 or 4 ending depending on what you decide, good, bad and story. Love to play it on PC with mod, snd have a modern feel to it.
This game is a little bit something of love/hate for me, since I remember being playing and advancing through the story a lot, until I left the son of a friend of my mother playing while I was doing some other stuff and when I came back, the kid had started a new game, overwriting my save and lost all the progress. Since then I never went back to that game but I think is some kind of pending stuff I have and it would be lovely to access to that game again.
this game is easily in my top 5 games of all time. so many memories! I loved to drive my Ford GT through the rainy roads listening to Don't Fear The Reaper (and this is how I got into Blue Oyster Cult too). blessed!
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