Hit the Streets for a Crime Life
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With any business career, professional progress is the major incentive for those ready to give their all for the company. So why should it be any different if you're jacking cars instead of shaking hands?
Crime Life: Gang Wars is a new game in the vein of Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas. Described by publisher Konami as a "free-roaming crime-based beat 'em up", the game allows you to explore life as a lowly "homie" with aspirations of grandeur and the sensibility and work ethic to make it happen.
Of course, when rival factions - or posses, if you will - are waiting at every corner to knife you to death, you're going to need to command respect and it's a crucial element that the game seeks to emphasise.
As with others from this mould, Crime Life: Gang Wars finds its base in American inner-city street culture - or at least the cinematic representations of it. Expect to find homages to cult gang films, such as Boyz N The Hood, Menace II Society and New Jack City.
But Konami is not simply exploiting this pool of imagery. The developers have adorned the violent edges with a lining of morality that addresses what it means to be in a gang and to live the rough street life glamorised by so many others.
You'll be able to see for yourself how successful they've been in June, when Crime Life: Gang War is released for PC, Xbox and PlayStation 2. Word.
Alex Wollenschlaeger
Editor, Kikizo Games
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