After yesterday’s quickie wrapup of Activision’s financial report, a few people wrote privately to ask me why I didn’t mention True Crime. The answer is “because I am distracted by multiple shiny objects.” I was focused on the stuff that was being freshly confirmed by that call; by contrast, True Crime’s website is already up and running with several trailers.
To make matters worse, on Twitter, I mistakenly called True Crime a new IP. I was quickly reminded by gamers with memories that there were two games on the previous generation of consoles; it’s even more embarrassing if you consider that I wrote a GamePro cover story on the first one. Chalk that one up to my outlook on the game: other than the fact that you are playing an undercover cop, everything else is new. Characters, location, mechanics, the works. Please note this game is is simply and definitively titled True Crime, and executive producer Stephen van der Mescht from developer United Front Games calls it a “complete reboot.” So I’ve kind of aligned my thinking with the newness to the point where I count it alongside the other new-new games launching this year.
More evidence of True Crime’s new newness will be coming soon. But I didn’t want True Crime to think I had intentionally snubbed it, because if True Crime thought that, True Crime would, without hesitation, kill me.
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