The Evolution of True Crime Games (2003 - 2012)

True Crime is a series of open world action-adventure video games told from the perspective of law enforcement. There are two games in the series and the third game True Crime-Hong Kong was released as Sleeping Dogs, True Crime: Streets of LA, released in 2003, and True Crime: New York City, released in 2005. Each game features GPS-accurate open world recreations of parts of Los Angeles and New York City, respectively. Streets of LA was developed by Luxoflux for the PlayStation 2, Xbox and GameCube, and ported to Microsoft Windows by LTI Gray Matter, to mobile by MFORMA and to macOS by Aspyr. It was published on all systems by Activision, except the Mac version, which was published by Aspyr. New York City was developed by Luxoflux for PlayStation 2, Xbox and GameCube, and ported to Windows by Aspyr and to mobile by Hands-On Mobile. It was published on all systems by Activision.



Why is Sleeping Dogs included in here?:
In 2007, they hired United Front Games to develop an open world game set in Hong Kong. By 2009, this game had become True Crime: Hong Kong. However, in 2011, the game was cancelled. Square Enix employee, and avid fan of the franchise, Heath Hallas made strives to revive the game, until, ultimately, the publishing rights were picked up by Square Enix several months later, and True Crime: Hong Kong was ultimately released in 2012 as Sleeping Dogs, which has no connection to the True Crime series. In 2014, Activision abandoned the True Crime trademark.


Games:
1. True Crime 1 - Streets of LA
2. True Crime 2 - New York City
3. True Crime 3 - Hong Kong, also known as: Sleeping Dogs

There are 2 clips included for each game in order to give an extended view on the gameplay.

Дата на публикация: 16 април, 2025
Категория: Игри
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