True Crime: Streets of LA (2003) — Release Date, Cheats, Price & Requirements

True Crime: Streets of LA

True Crime: Streets of LA is a free-roaming driving and action game similar in concept to Grand Theft Auto III. The game's structure is mission-based; most of the missions are dictated by the story and…

74 3 November 2003

What True Crime: Streets of LA is

True Crime: Streets of LA is an adventure game developed by Aspyr Media and released in 2003. It was published by Activision. It is available on Nintendo GameCube, PlayStation 2, Xbox, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).

The premise, in the publisher's words

True Crime: Streets of LA is a 2003 open world action-adventure video game developed by Luxoflux and published by Activision for GameCube, PlayStation 2 and Xbox in November 2003, for Microsoft Windows in May 2004, and by Aspyr for Mac OS X in March 2005. A mobile phone adaptation was released in November 2004. The game tells the story of Nicholas Kang, an uncompromising LAPD detective who is recruited into the Elite Operations Division to investigate a series of bombings in Chinatown. As he delves further into the case, he discovers it may be connected to the disappearance of his police officer father 20 years prior. The game features a 240-square-mile (622 km2) re-creation of a large part…

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How it plays

It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action, open world, sandbox and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

How it was received

True Crime: Streets of LA holds a critic score of 74 out of 100. That places it above 47% of the 7,527 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2003 averaged 69, so it scored 5 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 72, across 111 votes.

What it launched against

True Crime: Streets of LA launched on 3 November 2003, within three weeks of Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne, Call of Duty, Beyond Good & Evil and Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne, Call of Duty, Beyond Good & Evil, Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time.

Cheats and codes

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Official trailer