True Crime New York City ~ Gaming Zone

Thursday, October 6, 2011

True Crime New York City

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True Crime New York City:

Features:

New York City

Times Square as depicted in True Crime: NYC

True Crime: New York City features a GPS street-accurate recreation of the New York City borough of Manhattan and its many landmarks.
A major difference from previous open world video games is many buildings are accessible to the player besides just the locations related to the game's story. These include restaurants, hotels, apartment buildings, pharmacies, clothing shops, car dealers, dojos, record stores, and more. Besides shopping opportunities at some locations, the random street crimes found in the first game often occur within building interiors as well. Players can also purchase food (which increases health) from New York City's many hot dog stands.
Bridges such as the Brooklyn Bridge that lead off the island are present but blocked off. However there is a glitch where Marcus can get past the otherwise unclimbable fence at the Willis Avenue Bridge climbing over a barrier and cross the bridge but will respawn back in Manhattan when he gets to the other side. Parks such as Washington Square Park and Central Park are accessible; the Statue of Liberty is not but can be seen from Battery Park. Using the debug menu to access the debug camera reveals the statue's tablet bears the same inscription as in real life.
Times Square features the familiar bright neon lights, and the Naked Cowboy can be found playing his guitar. There is also a replica of the TKTS booth. Grand Central Terminal is the only major landmark that can be entered any time by the player, but the actual subway stop there is inaccessible for most of the game. In the game's story, the other major landmark that is featured as a setting is the American Museum of Natural History.
Other landmark buildings such as the Empire State Building, the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, the United Nations headquarters, St. Patrick's Cathedral, Rockefeller Center and the Chrysler Building are present but can not be entered, and a few areas, particularly in northern Manhattan (such as the Columbia University campus), are recreated exactly as in real life. The Guggenheim Museum, the Manhattan Municipal Building, the MetLife Building, the MetLife Tower, the Flatiron Building, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Citigroup Center, and the Time Warner Center at Columbus Circle feature accurately in the game, and Belvedere Castle and the Bethesda Terrace in Central Park are both present. The World Trade Center site is depicted in its 2005 condition: cleaned up and closed off.
Through use of the debug camera, it has been discovered there are incomplete versions of Governors Island, The Bronx, Roosevelt Island, Queens, and Brooklyn. These areas are mostly inaccessible, as most attempts to spawn the player will lead to the player being respawned in Manhattan, or the game crashing. However, certain sections of these unfinished boroughs allow the player to spawn normally, and even drive a vehicle in some instances.

System Requirements :

Processor 1.5 GHz or equivalent
Memory: 256 MB
Video Memory 64 MB
Hard Drive Space 2700 MB
Other: DirectX 9.0c compatible Sound Card