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True Crime: New York City for Nintendo GameCube
True Crime: New York City for the Nintendo GameCube is an action adventure with an open city world. You play Marcus Reed, a former gang member working as a police officer. After his mentor's death, he investigates criminal organisations in Manhattan. You travel through the city on foot or in vehicles and begin missions that move the investigation forward.
The action alternates between driving, gunfights and hand-to-hand combat. You can pursue, arrest and search suspects, while reports of street crime may draw you away from the main case. Marcus can do his police work by the rules or abuse his position. The game keeps track of your conduct, so an arrest can mean more than simply taking down the next opponent.
Between story missions, you can drive around Manhattan freely and see where something is happening. Familiar streets, buildings and neighbourhoods give that exploration a sense of direction. A neighbourhood's condition is also linked to the crime you tackle or allow to continue. You play the campaign alone and view Marcus from an external perspective during the action. The combination of free driving and individual police assignments regularly lets you decide whether to follow the main case or answer a report first.
Region and language
Our Nintendo GameCube games are PAL editions and come with a Dutch or English box, unless stated otherwise. By default, you receive the version for the European market. We note it in the product details if the region is different or the box is in another language. In almost all cases, the game is playable at least in English, and often in the other five common European languages too.
Manual
True Crime: New York City for Nintendo GameCube includes the manual unless the product title states otherwise. If the booklet is missing, the title says “No Manual”. This lets you see before ordering whether the game comes with a manual.
The manuals included with our games usually contain at least English and often around six European languages. The exact languages vary by edition, so Dutch is not always included. The booklet explains the controls and the main rules. You can use it to check how to control the game, which actions are available and how its different features work.
The history of True Crime: New York City
True Crime: New York City was released in Europe for the Nintendo GameCube on 25 November 2005. Activision published it as the successor to 2003's True Crime: Streets of LA. Luxoflux developed the original game; Exakt Entertainment handled the GameCube conversion. The series retained its combination of driving, shooting and fighting, but moved to the American East Coast.
The new protagonist, Marcus Reed, brought a different past and an investigation of his own. Manhattan became the basis of the open world, with existing street layouts, recognisable locations and buildings you can enter. At release, Activision emphasised neighbourhoods that react to the amount of crime. Police work therefore had a visible effect beyond the story's individual assignments.
Music also played a part in that relocation. The soundtrack includes more than eighty tracks from genres such as hip-hop, punk and rock, selected around artists with a connection to New York. Redman also created new material for the game. Actors including Christopher Walken, Laurence Fishburne and Mickey Rourke contributed voices. Along with the different city and protagonist, this gave the sequel a character of its own. On the GameCube, the foundation remained a single-player campaign alternating between free exploration and missions involving organised crime.
Similar games for Nintendo GameCube
True Crime: Streets of LA is the direct predecessor and also combines police work, driving, shooting and fighting. You play Nick Kang in Los Angeles and follow a different case. New York City moves that foundation to Manhattan, with Marcus Reed and neighbourhoods whose condition changes when you fight or ignore crime.
The Simpsons: Hit & Run shares the alternation between driving around a city and assignments outside the car. Springfield offers familiar locations from the cartoon and plenty of humour. True Crime: New York City uses that same broad freedom for a violent police story, with gunfights and arrests as recurring parts of the action.
Spider-Man 2 also lets you move freely around Manhattan and respond to problems between story missions. You travel by swinging past buildings and fight enemies with superpowers. True Crime: New York City views the city from street level, where vehicles, firearms and Marcus' police work determine how you approach a situation.
The Incredible Hulk: Ultimate Destruction combines open city areas with missions and activities you can seek out yourself. Hulk leaps over buildings and uses his surroundings as weapons. True Crime: New York City keeps movement closer to traffic and pedestrians, while police work and the investigation into criminal organisations connect the assignments.
James Bond 007: Everything or Nothing also alternates third-person gunfights with vehicle action. Bond follows separate espionage missions and uses specialised gadgets. True Crime: New York City places its action in a freely explorable Manhattan, where you can also tackle street crime between main assignments and choose your own route.
