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There's an interview with the lead producer on Inside Xbox on the 360 dashboard at the moment. He emphasised the melee combat focus of the action and it actually looks really good. Using the environment as a weapon is a big thing it seems. Also trying to make it really immersive, and as true to Hong Kong as possible. For example, NPCs speaking Cantonese with no subtitles and stuff like that. Should be out by Summer on PC/360/PS3. Developed by United Front Games who did ModNation Racers on the PS3. Based on the little I've seen I don't expect it to win any game of the year awards but it looks like a lot of fun. |
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Syrette 51,181 posts
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DUFFMAN5 26,890 posts
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Registered 17 years agoLooking forward to this as well. I really enjoyed the first games on Xbox, many moons ago now but I remember them being lots of fun with good voice casts to boot. -
Wasn't aware of this, I love Hong Kong so will be keeping an eye on it. -
Syrette 51,181 posts
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Registered 19 years agoYou'll be glad to hear that it's a different developer this time round then ecureuil, Activision closed down the original True Crime dev team. -
Syrette 51,181 posts
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Registered 19 years agoIndeed, given we're dealing with Activision here. From what I recall New York wasn't a success when it came to sales.
I think there was meant to be a True Crime 3 long before this but Activision did kill that one off. -
ElNuevo9 14,164 posts
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Registered 15 years agoTrue Crime: NY was actually all right.
Won't pick this up though, unless it reviews really well. -
SomaticSense 15,062 posts
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Registered 16 years agoforeverafternothing wrote:
There's an interview with the lead producer on Inside Xbox on the 360 dashboard at the moment. He emphasised the melee combat focus of the action and it actually looks really good. Using the environment as a weapon is a big thing it seems.
Also trying to make it really immersive, and as true to Hong Kong as possible. For example, NPCs speaking Cantonese with no subtitles and stuff like that.
Should be out by Summer on PC/360/PS3. Developed by United Front Games who did ModNation Racers on the PS3. Based on the little I've seen I don't expect it to win any game of the year awards but it looks like a lot of fun.
"Looks like fun"
Did you actually see the vid? It looks absolutely terrible in it's current state, and ropey as hell.
In fact, as ropey as hell would be if Satan suddenly developed a fetish for hanging people instead of his usual torture methods. -
I'd forgotten about this completely. I think I just surmised it'd been cancelled. -
Syrette 51,181 posts
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Registered 19 years agoSomaticSense wrote:
foreverafternothing wrote:
There's an interview with the lead producer on Inside Xbox on the 360 dashboard at the moment. He emphasised the melee combat focus of the action and it actually looks really good. Using the environment as a weapon is a big thing it seems.
Also trying to make it really immersive, and as true to Hong Kong as possible. For example, NPCs speaking Cantonese with no subtitles and stuff like that.
Should be out by Summer on PC/360/PS3. Developed by United Front Games who did ModNation Racers on the PS3. Based on the little I've seen I don't expect it to win any game of the year awards but it looks like a lot of fun.
"Looks like fun"
Did you actually see the vid? It looks absolutely terrible in it's current state, and ropey as hell.
In fact, as ropey as hell would be if Satan suddenly developed a fetish for hanging people instead of his usual torture methods.
Sorry for having my own opinion on a game that isn't out for months, an opinion primarily based on a compressed video that in my view isn't half as bad as you're making out. -
Machetazo 6,373 posts
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Registered 16 years agoecureuil wrote:
Does it need to? I expect the aim is not to pick up where they left off, in any way. True Crime's just a catchy name, today - but if they can release a decent game under it, they've basically got a new franchise at their disposal to build on.
Strange that they're resurrecting the franchise, then. You wouldn't think the True Crime name carried much weight. -
SomaticSense 15,062 posts
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Registered 16 years agoforeverafternothing wrote:
SomaticSense wrote:"Looks like fun"
Did you actually see the vid? It looks absolutely terrible in it's current state, and ropey as hell.
In fact, as ropey as hell would be if Satan suddenly developed a fetish for hanging people instead of his usual torture methods.
Sorry for having my own opinion on a game that isn't out for months, an opinion primarily based on a compressed video that in my view isn't half as bad as you're making out.
Sorry if I couldn't help but notice the terrible collision detection, bad animations, dodgy looking combat, horrible looking handling when it comes to the driving. All fairly obvious in that vid.
All I've heard in the build up is how much better the game will be than the rough arsed previous entries, and how it's a "reboot" of the franchise. Sorry, but it looks the same old True Crime to me...
I know I don't qualify for expressing such a negative opinion on the game until I've bought it on release day for £39.99 and played it for 100 hours, but having such a positive opinion on it so early is equally absurd. In fact, arguably even more so seeing as the series has a poor reputation and the devs haven't exactly set the world alight thus far either. All we have to go on is what has been shown, which looks poor tbh, especially when you bear in mind the intense competition they are facing. -
Whizzo 44,810 posts
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Registered 20 years agoI quite enjoyed the first two games, I found LA a lot nicer to drive around than NYC due to it not having shit loads of one ways streets that really slowed you down when trying to chase someone down, the civvie traffic was a pain when you're driving the wrong way.
LA had some nice ideas like the targeting when shooting from your car and the mission failure not equalling game over but taking you on a different path. Obviously if you kept fucking up don't expect things to turn out very well.
It was also fucking insane, how many cops end up having to fight a frigging dragon in China Town? Not too many I should imagine.
NYC felt like a buggy rush job though, shame really as it did a decent job of recreating the city. -
foreverafternothing wrote:
SomaticSense wrote:
foreverafternothing wrote:
There's an interview with the lead producer on Inside Xbox on the 360 dashboard at the moment. He emphasised the melee combat focus of the action and it actually looks really good. Using the environment as a weapon is a big thing it seems.
Also trying to make it really immersive, and as true to Hong Kong as possible. For example, NPCs speaking Cantonese with no subtitles and stuff like that.
Should be out by Summer on PC/360/PS3. Developed by United Front Games who did ModNation Racers on the PS3. Based on the little I've seen I don't expect it to win any game of the year awards but it looks like a lot of fun.
"Looks like fun"
Did you actually see the vid? It looks absolutely terrible in it's current state, and ropey as hell.
In fact, as ropey as hell would be if Satan suddenly developed a fetish for hanging people instead of his usual torture methods.
Sorry for having my own opinion on a game that isn't out for months, an opinion primarily based on a compressed video that in my view isn't half as bad as you're making out.
Agreed, the vid got me quite looking forward to this. Might need a little touch up before being released but the game play I saw it looked like great fun.
Really looking forward to the melee system with the counter attacks and environmental weapons and hearing the gun play is there not toned down from other sandbox games it could mean that fire fights are more interesting.
Looking forward to hearing more about this. -
Syrette 51,181 posts
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Registered 19 years agoSomaticSense wrote:
foreverafternothing wrote:
SomaticSense wrote:"Looks like fun"
Did you actually see the vid? It looks absolutely terrible in it's current state, and ropey as hell.
In fact, as ropey as hell would be if Satan suddenly developed a fetish for hanging people instead of his usual torture methods.
Sorry for having my own opinion on a game that isn't out for months, an opinion primarily based on a compressed video that in my view isn't half as bad as you're making out.
Sorry if I couldn't help but notice the terrible collision detection, bad animations, dodgy looking combat, horrible looking handling when it comes to the driving. All fairly obvious in that vid.
All I've heard in the build up is how much better the game will be than the rough arsed previous entries, and how it's a "reboot" of the franchise. Sorry, but it looks the same old True Crime to me...
I know I don't qualify for expressing such a negative opinion on the game until I've bought it on release day for £39.99 and played it for 100 hours, but having such a positive opinion on it so early is equally absurd. In fact, arguably even more so seeing as the series has a poor reputation and the devs haven't exactly set the world alight thus far either. All we have to go on is what has been shown, which looks poor tbh, especially when you bear in mind the intense competition they are facing.
It's just my opinion.
I even said at the end of my OP that "I don't expect it to win any game of the year awards".
Games like The Saboteur and others have similar flaws to the ones you've pointed out and still remain fun.
I'm pretty sure the vids they used in that interview were from an old build anyway, which might have something to do with them being taken from Gamespot. Even if it's not an old build, there's still time to eradicate those flaws. It doesn't have a fixed release date. -
Rauha 4,271 posts
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Registered 11 years ago:/ Activision just cancelled this game o.o (according to front page news article). -
Machetazo 6,373 posts
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Registered 16 years agoUnited Front Games previously worked on Mod Nation Racers, so from that I reckon they'd have a good chance of delivering at least, a good game (expectation tempered by not much media being about, to know what they were going for on this) with TC.
I checked their twitter, and it's not been added to since MNR, there's no mention of True Crime there. I simply hope they're going to be all right and will bounce back. -
Only the devs actually give a fuck about this news. -
Freek 7,682 posts
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Registered 18 years agoDDevil wrote:
Only the devs actually give a fuck about this news.
Harsh, but true. True Crime had zero buzz around it. -
Blerk wrote:
Teh premonitions! :-D
I'd forgotten about this completely. I think I just surmised it'd been cancelled.
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Euromillions numbers for tomorrow...? ;o) -
It's got to be worth a shot! :-D
Am I right in thinking that True Crime: Hong Kong wasn't always a True Crime game? i.e. it was something else and then later got rebranded into True Crime?
I wonder if there's an opportunity for the team to remove that branding again and pimp it to another publisher? -
Syrette 51,181 posts
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Registered 19 years agoOh hello.
And a Jaffa Cake to Blerk for his prediction. -
Syrette 51,181 posts
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Sounding good. -
Syrette 51,181 posts
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Registered 19 years agoEG sent Minkley to Hong Kong to have a look at the game (lucky guy).
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Sleepingdog make nice music. -
Syrette 51,181 posts
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Registered 19 years agoDo want.
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Still amazes me that no one has done a proper cyber-punk one of these. The most futuristic sandbox GTA clone I can think of is Crackdown and that was more urban warfare than anything.
This looks pretty interesting, though. One of the things I like is that you aren't just playing a criminal as you normally do in these things.
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