True Crime: Streets of LA

One of the first Action-Adventure Games set in an Open World environment to be released after Grand Theft Auto III, True Crime: Streets of LA focuses on the other side of the law in the genre of the police procedural. The player controls police officer Nick Kang, and is to set out catching criminals and doing missions for the police force.

True Crime’s gameplay has been called “the GTA III clone where you play a cop, as the core mechanics are identical – the player can wreak havoc across the city, do whatever they want in the city and progress through the storyline at their own leisure. However, as the game focuses on the other side of the law, committing similar crimes in True Crime: Streets of LA in comparison to that of Grand Theft Auto will have less severe consequences than in the Grand Theft Auto games, but will result in the player losing “good cop” points. If the player loses a certain amount of “good cop” points, their rank in the police force will drop, to the point where they are exiled from the police force entirely. If that does happen, the player will have to perform “good cop” actions in order to rise back up the police ranks. The amount of “good cop” points determines the game’s ending.