The new True Crime title is to feature a fully working, faithfully recreated version of Manhattan!

Well, it's cheaper than going there yourself. And a lot less trouble, if you're going to be getting up to the sort of destruction this game allows, with fully destructable environments, and the ability to use practically anything around you as a weapon.

In a recent press release, Activision has shed some more on the upcoming game. Players will take on the role of former gang member turned cop Marcus Reed as they fight crime on the accurately recreated streets of Manhattan. The city will be complete with subways, hundreds of interiors, internationally recognized landmarks and real neighborhoods from Harlem to Chinatown to Times Square.

Players will navigate the city the way New Yorkers do, by taking cabs, riding subways, walking and driving cars and motorcycles. All the sights and sounds of New York will be authentically recreated, including the voices and likenesses of real New Yorkers, and character concentrations specific to each neighborhood.

True Crime: New York City is being developed by Luxoflux and is scheduled to be released this autumn for the Cube, PS2 and Xbox. Luxoflux was also responsible for the game's predecessor, Streets of L.A., which was the number one best-selling new intellectual property of 2003.

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