True Crime: Hong Kong
Website: http://truecrime.com
Release Date: Fall 2010
Platforms: Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, PC
Developer: United Front Games
What You Need To Know:
- You play Wei Shen, an undercover cop infiltrating Hong Kong’s criminal underworld. Trouble is, you still have to act like you’re on the wrong side of the law, so to keep up appearances, you’ll have to keep your morality…flexibile.
- This is the first open-world game to take place in an Asian city.
- It’s expected to earn a Mature rating easily. You’ll use the environment to do very nasty things – I saw someone get electrocuted against a fuse box during combat. I also saw someone beat up and thrown into a trunk. That wasn’t a mission – that’s just something you can do.
- Big Hollywood talent is lined up to play the characters, including Sammo Hung, Tom Wilkinson, and James Hong. Pharrell Williams (N.E.R.D., the Neptunes) is on board to wrangle the soundtrack.
What It Doesn’t Have: Any ties to the previous games. The undercover-cop-facing-moral-challenges setup is similar, but the stories are different, not to mention the combat, engine, controls, and just about everything else.
What You Might Not Have Heard Yet: True Crime: Hong Kong is being created by United Front Games — the folks who just released ModNation Racers on PS3.
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