The new location is Hong Kong, breaking away from the US setting of the originals. We play undercover cop Wei Shen, infiltrating the triad rings.
"I think the designers on True Crime - just like ModNation Racers - have benefited from a clean sheet. They were able to build a team with the right talent, they were able to build a game engine with all of the right tools... there's no legacy on our games and that's been kind of a luxury," United Front Games director William Ho told CVG.
United Front also developed ModNation Racers which releases for PlayStation 3 exclusively May 21st, and features awesome degrees of customisation - like LittleBigPlanet.
"I think you're going to see a pretty fresh and original take on the open-world action game. It's not going to be confused for any other game," he continued. That means no 'GTA-clone' feeling hopefully, although some have enjoyed that sentiment.
This new True Crime may revive the series which has been plagued with so-so impressions, as United Front Games takes over from former developer Luxoflux. True Crime releases on Xbox 360, PS3 and PC later this year.
