When you're on foot, Nick Kang can fight, shoot, flash his badge, fire in the air and roust suspects. In the role of detective Nick Kang-the stereotypical hot-shot cop with an attitude problem that we've seen in dozens of Hollywood blockbusters and B-movies-you have the freedom to travel anywhere in the game's depiction of Los Angeles, and you can seamlessly go from driving to operating on foot with the press of a button. However, some technical hurdles holding it back from being a completely successful PC port. True Crime gives you a purpose and a consequence for every criminal you bag and every civilian or cop you blast, and the events of one mission are tied to the next mission all the way to the multiple ends of the game.
If the GTA games gave us a living city that reacted to almost all of our whims and left us on our own to generate fun for ourselves, True Crime gives us very specific things to do in that living city so that we might drive a genuine story. The greatest strength of this Luxoflux game, however, is the integration of story and layers of game design into one cohesive package that's makes the whole thing flow more like an interactive movie than anything.
