Crime Cities - PC

Techland are further assuring their commitment to the PC platform with the release of Crime Cities. With the help of EON Digital Entertainment, the company’s latest instalment for the home computer boasts a great number playing features, setting the foundations for a classic game. After being framed by the Human Federation for treason and disobeying orders, Garm Tiger, otherwise known as Johnny Red (you) is sentenced to live out his days on a planet of crime. But it is at this point that his real mission in life begins.

Described as a gun for hire, you must learn to take on missions offered to you via your Globnet computer. You begin your initial missions with a small, but nippy spacecraft and just a few dollars in your bank account. Missions you attempt will be offered from a number of sinister groups that range from gangs to government organisations to commercial competitors, all willing to pay healthy amounts of cash. Asking no questions, you must fulfil these illegal requirements and eventually figure a way of getting of the crime-infested planet, exposing the criminal mastermind in the process. There are over a hundred missions in total, in which you will have the opportunity to use dozens of weapons and a wide range of vehicles and vehicle modifications. The game’s environments are in full 3D splendour, allowing for fully manipulative camera controls and free roaming action. Those of you not content with single player gameplay can participate in Crime Cities’ Deathmatch mode, in which up to sixteen players can battle it out in any of the three existing environments.

Crime Cities is highly playable and very stylish, if just a tiny bit controversial.
more