True Crime: Streets of LA

Reviewed by:
Alex Porter

If you look to the left, you’ll recognize Mann’s Chinese Theatre. To our right, you’ll see the home of Ed Begley Jr., made from 60 percent postconsumer product. And, if you’ll look down that side street, you’ll notice gangbangers and Triads blowing each other to shreds with AK-47s. As Nick Kang, a cop on LAPD’s any-means-necessary Elite Operations Division, you get to the heart of a Chinese crime syndicate with two-fisted shooting, fighting, and driving any vehicle you choose (you’re a cop, man!) across hundreds of miles of city—detailed to the bougainvillea bush. Dispatches come in on your radio to apprehend (or slaughter) criminals, tempting you from your primary objective. The shooting control takes some getting used to, but stick with it and you’ll advance through a solid plot laced with a meaty hip-hop soundtrack, celebrity voices, and…drumroll…a playable Snoop Dogg! You’ll never need MapQuest in L.A. again.

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