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 enlarge | From: Activision Inc.
Category: Video Games
List Price: $9.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  37 reviews
Sales Rank: 3660
Platform: Playstation2
ESRB: Mature
Media: Video Game
Edition: Standard
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: No
Age: 17 - 20 years
Operating System: Playstation 2
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 5.4 x 0.5 x 7.5
MPN: 100730
Model: 80997
UPC: 047875809970
EAN: 0047875809970
ASIN: B0009Z3HXI
Release Date: October 4, 2005
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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 The controls are difficult to master January 3, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This game isn't bad, it's just kind of frustrating. You have to press the directional pad in different directions to change the functions of the buttons constantly. This is very difficult to explain, and even more difficult to learn while playing. If you have patience enough to play this game for two hours straight to try to learn the controls, then you are a lot more patient than me! I gave up after stage 3...
1ST TRUE CRIME, IS A BETTER GAME January 3, 2007
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
I DID NOT LIKE THE NY VERSION. IT MAKES NY LOOK LIKE SOMETHING OUT OF A GODFATHER FILM. MIGHT BE BECAUSE I WAS BORN AND RAISED IN NY. SO, I MIGHT BE PARTIAL TO NOT ENJOYING THE GAME. THE CONTROLS ARE NOT GOOD WHILE DRIVING THE STREETS. THE LA VERSION I THINK HAD A BETTER STORY. THE ONLY GOOD THING ABOUT THE GAME IS THAT IT DOES LOOK LIKE NEW YORK CITY. IF YOU WANT A BETTER GAME SIMILAR TO THIS ONE, GET THE GODFATHER GAME. I KNOW IT'S VIOLENT ALSO, BUT THE CONTROLS ARE A LITTLE BIT BETTER, AND IF YOU ARE A FAN OF THE FILMS, GET IT. THANK YOU
 Good But needs sone improvements August 26, 2006
3 out of 9 found this review helpful
This game starts you out at Christmas 2000 and you are a gangster named Marcus Reed. This part is not very hard. Then 5 years later you become a street cop. After that you half to go through Fighting training, Gun training, and Driving training. Led by the person who takes care of Marcus, Terry. It is kind of boring. Then you half to drive to a certain place where Terry tells you the different kinds of crimanils and you half to search for drugs. You half to check 3 people for drugs. The last person you check has drugs. Then you half to check the car ahed for drugs. Of course, it has some. Then Terry tells you about the different kinds of criminals. After he tells you about all of them, you half to arrest all of them. After you arrest 4 out of 5 people, the last person escapes. You go into the car thet you see 1st (not Terry's) then you drive to the closest street. Then you chase the guy down and arrest him. Then you half to drive to another place because Terry has to do something the biulding explodes and Terry dies. Then back at the police station, Deena Dixon tells you that you are on yo'ur
own. You are. My opinion of the game play is 5 stars but the music is -100,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 stars. Rap and Punk are horrible! But the rock is ok.
Fun, but falls to GTA June 28, 2006
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Ok, you could assume without much information that GTASA is a better game than this, though since this is sort of an imitation of it, it makes it less worth while. That's just a foreword: this game is decent.
The graphics aren't great or anything, but they don't do a bad job of portraying NYC. The building designs aren't so great, they have the neighborhoods down and know where to place key structures (like churches or synagogues or famous food places, not just Statue of Liberty, Ground Zero, or Empire State). That said, the human model graphics are somewhat mediocre, but they're not as bad as the grand theft auto ones, and the building graphics are decent, and vehicles look fair.
The controls hold up pretty well. Compared to a lot of games, the combat engine is nice. Melee isn't anything special, but shooting holds up well, I just wish you could get weapons more easily (there's an armory that you can get as you go up in rank as an investigator, but it seems nearly impossible to be able to actually use them, unless I'm seriously missing something huge).
The gameplay itself varies. There are the neighborhoods of Manhattan that have different crime rates, and you can temporarily 'clean' them up, but they'll decay as time goes on, and you can help this decay, the engine of 'rotting buildings' is rather amusing. As Game Informer cited: The stores will slowly close down on the streets where you randomly punch people in the face. Basically, there are repeatable crime scenarios (there are many, so you don't end up using too many) and several routes to resolving the issue. The only problem is, when the violators are getting intensely violent (to the point of guns) and you need to shoot them, other cops who are helping to arrest them will sometimes shoot at you, and flashing your badge generally won't work, in which case you need to flee or shoot them, which will eventually lead to demotion. There are story missions as well, of course, in which at first you're chasing down what appears to be a run-of-the-mill drug ring, which evolves into a more complex storyline, but the storyline missions really aren't very entertaining.
In short, this game is a good effort, is generally entertaining, and has a decently good sense of city geography (central park is actually done alright, as is morningside. Riverside, like in spiderman 2, has shops on it which are illegal, there are no key spots.... well if you consider the actual meeting scene of The Warriors a key zone, and the park itself is just an intensely narrow strip. They have some buildings that are well-known, like Saint John's Cathedral, which is to an extent somewhat realistic). Basically, the subway system is done well, and it's a good free-roam game, but the storyline is mediocre.
 True [...]: New York May 16, 2006
1 out of 4 found this review helpful
Both games in this series are horrible copies of Driver 3, which is a horrible copy of the Getaway, which is a horrible copy of Grand Theft Auto.
TC: New York starts off forcing you to participate in a two-hour long "training" session that gets worse and more boring by the minute, then its another 30 minutes of "drive here, do this" before you can even start the game. Horrible, sloppy controls (such as having seperate buttons for firing a weapon and firing warning shots) and some of the worst video game acting I've ever seen totally destroy this game before it even starts.
This game is such a waste of money, its a true crime.
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