Video: Activision Gives True Crime A Hong Kong Makeover
Activision revealed the development of United Front Games' reboot of the True Crime franchise with this trailer for the all-new True Crime during Spike TV's 7th Annual Video Game Awards show. Inspired by classic Asian action thrillers, they're shooting for this to play like a true Hong Kong action flick. The story follows detective Wei Shen as he infiltrates the Triads and travels an open-world sandbox that includes areas from the high-class Central Hong Kong to the fish markets of Aberdeen.
"We've been waiting for the right story and opportunity to bring True Crime to a new generation of gamers in 2010," said Maria Stipp, EVP and GM of Owned Properties, Activision Publishing. "United Front Games has the vision to bring this new undercover game experience to life, where fans will play out their own epic Hong Kong action thriller!"
I've gotta admit that the trailer sure looks pretty, and yeah, it does look like a John Woo-style crime thriller. But without footage of actual gameplay, I can't be sure that it's not just a GTA-lite wannabe.
"We're excited about the opportunity to deliver a complete reboot of the True Crime experience," said Stephen van der Mescht, Executive Producer at United Front Games. "As our Spike TV VGA reveal trailer shows, we are dedicated to creating both an exceptional open-world gameplay experience through our combat, free-running, shooting and driving mechanics, as well as a rich story with memorable recurring characters. We want players to feel like an undercover cop experiencing the moral dilemmas and life and death situations of the HK underworld."
Free-running? Scratch that. GTA-lite wannabe with a little bit of Mirror's Edge thrown in for good measure. We'll see. True Crime will be out in the Fall of 2010 for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3.
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Posted to Video Games, Videos on 15 December 2009
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At what point will sandbox games stop being compared to GTA? I wonder how long it took before first person shooters stopped being called Wolfenstein or Doom clones.
"Wei Shen"? don't the producers know that Hong Kong is a Cantonese speaking city and we don't use Mandarin names?
Reminds me of United Airlines who insist on doing all their announcements in Mandarin coming into HK - where the official languages are Cantonese and English.
@ Branovices
I know what you mean. Wish games could just be judged on their own merrit.
My personal pet peeve is GoW-clone. It's hilarious too, since GoW was such a blatant clone of Rygar. ¬_¬