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True Crime: New York City is an urban adventure video game published by Activision and developed by Luxoflux for the Xbox, PlayStation 2, and GameCube consoles. It was released to Windows-based computers on March 24, 2006. It is the second game of the True Crime series, released after True Crime: Streets of LA. As of April 2009, the Xbox 360 is not backwards compatible with the Xbox version of the game.
Plot summary
Marcus Reed is a gang member who inherited his incarcerated father's criminal empire in New York City. Several years later, Reed is betrayed by a friend and assumed dead after an ambush. Covered in blood and injured, Reed shows up unexpectedly at the traitor's house to exact revenge. After a bloody, running gunfight with gang members, Reed corners the betrayer in a building basement and guns him down. Dropping his empty Uzi, Reed is almost shot and killed by another gang member, but an NYPD detective named Terry Higgins saves him.
Isaiah Reed (Marcus' father) and Higgins have been friends for a long time. Higgins tells Reed he should be ashamed of the level he's sunk to. Although Reed willingly offers to allow Higgins to arrest him, Higgins refuses. He says he's going to cover up Reed's involvement in the shoot-out, but this will be his final chance to clean up his act before he's left to the mercy of the NYPD. Reed agrees, and shuffles off to tend to his injuries. As he does so, Higgins sighs and says, "Merry Christmas."
Five years later, Marcus Reed is now an officer of the NYPD, having worked the beat for four years to become one of the precinct's best street cops with Higgins' mentoring and guidance. At the urging of Higgins, he applies to test for his detective's badge and a transfer to the Organized Crime Unit. After passing the test with flying colors, the head detective does not believe he is ready so Terry takes Reed out for a few basics, afterwards Reed and Higgins go to visit Reed's father in jail. The visit is cut short by a phone call to Higgins. A contact for a case he's working on has called a meeting in another part of town. Marcus Reed and Higgins hurry to the contact point. Before getting out of the car, Higgins instructs Reed to come in guns blazing if he's gone for too long. As Higgins walks into the building with a briefcase, Reed leans over to pick up some of Higgins' cigarettes that have fallen out of the glove box, and suddenly, a massive explosion sends the unmarked squad car flying through the air.
Back at the precinct, Reed is informed Higgins was killed in the explosion. Reed is denied a place in the OCU, for now. Marcus is then informed he will be going back out on the street as a plainclothes cop while the department investigates Higgins' murder. As Reed resumes his duties, he is contacted by FBI agent Gabriel Whitting, who requests a meeting in a parking garage downtown. Whitting informs Reed a member of the OCU is a mole and likely organized Higgins' death. Whitting does not know who but does know the mole was working with four major crime syndicates: the Magdalena Cartel, the President's Club, the Palermo Mob, and the Shadow Tong. Whitting wants Reed to investigate these four crime groups to track down Higgins' killer. After being given a folder with information on the Magdalena Cartel, Reed sets off on his mission of revenge.
[edit] Endings
Good Cop Ending: Victor Navarro comes to Grand Central Station to find Marcus Reed and Gabriel Whitting waiting at his locker. Whitting tells Navarro he has a warrant and tells him to open his locker. Navarro does so, revealing a clothes bag and some golf clubs. As Navarro taunts Reed, however, the bag falls down, revealing millions of dollars in cash. Navarro is carted off and Whitting asks Reed to get some rest. Down in the subway station, Reed is greeted by the one person he least expects: Higgins, alive and well. Reed realizes the truth at last: Higgins was the mole. He knew Whitting was on to him, so he faked his death and framed Navarro for his crimes. When Reed arrested the crime heads, he had unwittingly protected Higgins from gang vengeance. Higgins attempts to get Reed to join him and enjoy the money in Mexico, but Reed is angry with Higgins for tricking him.
Annoyed by Reed's self-righteous attitude, Higgins produces a folder filled with pictures of Reed's rampage five years ago, threatening him with them if he ever thinks of revealing Higgins' actions. Reed defiantly replies he would "do my time standing up, just like my pops" and orders Higgins to surrender. Higgins runs onto a subway car as Reed follows in hot pursuit. Higgins unhooks the cars and starts to make his getaway. Furious, Reed shoots wildly at the train car, striking one of the wheels and causing it to flip over. The rest of the subway train collides with the overturned train car, with Reed running desperately toward the back of the train, barely escaping the huge explosion. Later, Reed talks with Whitting and Dixon as Higgins' dead body is pushed away on a stretcher. In return for catching Higgins, Whitting promises to give Reed's father another chance with the D.A. Reed walks out of the station. Marcus' father meanwhile, narrates the end of the story in the background, saying how much he is proud to see his son stayed in the way of honor despite the fact there were two bad examples in front of him.
1 February 2010 
