Crime Life video

By Tom Bramwell Published 3 June, 2005

Street violence on film.

The streets can be tough. ("We can? Brilliant!" - The streets.) So says Konami, anyway, having unveiled its gangbanging Hothouse Creations effort, Crime Life: Gang Wars, earlier this year. ("What about hamlets?" - A hamlet.)

And now we have video proof, in the form of a 26MB introductory video available today from Eurofiles. Click up in this bitch, y'all. ("Watch out! It's a cul-de-sac with a knuckleduster!")

It should introduce you to the game's violent style and combat across a mixture of cinematics and in-game footage. Aand you can find out plenty more about the game -a hip-hop-flavoured streetsy kill-'em-up - by reading our pre-E3 preview up in here.

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About Tom Bramwell

Tom is Operations director of Eurogamer Network and Editor-at-Large of Eurogamer.net. He joined the company in February 2000.

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Comments (6) Latest comment 7 years ago

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  • TheRealBadabing #1 7 years ago

    Hip Hop fuck off

  • Macross #2 7 years ago

    im feeling alot of pent up aggression here

    breathe in, breathe out

    ouussaah

  • #3 7 years ago

    Hip Hop Fuck off , hmm so u dont like it then ? boy george more your style bing me old chum?

  • TheRealBadabing #4 7 years ago

    Every other game these days seems to have a "hip hop" theme. Am I the only person that has Ali G flashbacks every time I hear clichéd street "cool"?

    "Yo yo yo my man, you is bichin and down wid da homies" just doesn't appeal to me.

    Do people really "aspire" to ghetto culture these days? I just don't get it...so called street culture is simply another marketing tool.

    It's about as cool as your dad dancing at your aunt's wedding but if you want to get all def jam about it (whatever the fuck a def jam is), then good luck to you.

    Just don't forget your burberry baseball cap when you jump in your souped up Nova to go down to Dixons (and meet your mate Kev, their SENIOR sales assistant)and buy the game. Innit.

    btw, this was not addressed to you Petay, I'm sure you are not a chav and can appreciate the musical genius of the big gay BG ;)

  • crashVoodoo #5 7 years ago

    novas?

    its saxos/corsas round here, hundreds of the buggers all with audio equip worth more than the car

  • CatWeazle #6 7 years ago

    TheRealBadabing, yeh I agree.

    Hip-Hop & gangsta rap is just another marketing brand now. Jeez, when I see a load of kids still wearing baggy jeans, big-up trainers & cheap chains, it just reminds me of all those crustry old rockers with their drainpipes & Hi-Tek's..

    Time for a change is long overdue, but there's a whole industry depending upon propping up this dated 90's gangsta image.. And that means selling it to the new yout'.

  • #7 7 years ago

    Enjoying a game like defjam2 or san andreas doesnt mean u "aspire" to ghetto culture, i mean most ppl like mario , do they aspire to be short fat italians who hide in drainpipes nibbling magic mushrooms ? me thinks not!

  • TheRealBadabing #8 7 years ago

    But would Def Jam 2 be as good a game without the hip hop shite, and the associated "gangsta culture"?

    Admittedly many people think GTA:SA is a good game in spite of the ghetto-cool.

    My gripe is about games like Midnight Club:YoYoYoHomie edition and the like. They seem like perfectly good games but as soon as I hear some out of work actor reeling off lines obviously written by some middle class marketing/PR pleb, I turn off.