"This is the most iconic level in the game for me. My first experience with it was on a Playstation disc, so blame nostalgia. It's a very decent competition level with a really cool secret. I really like the graffitis as well."
PS: the gameplay used for this gifset is not mine. The original video belongs to the user: Insetik47, on Youtube.
True Crime: Streets of LA may seem like your usual mediocre tryhard third-person shoot-bang violence delight, but don't be fooled—it isn't much of a delight at all. It follows player character Nick Kang Wilson, recently suspended for repeated counts of excessive force, but now reinstated into an autonomous division with authority over the entire city of Los Angeles, which is actually pretty in-line with how real departments attend to police brutality so I can't complain about that. He's been tasked with solving a series of bombings in Chinatown, but all the while, a far more personal mystery hangs over Nick Kang Wilson like a greasy specter: Who the hell gave him a gunWhat happened to his father?
Anyway, Nick Kang Wilson has a Ryu Number of 3.
Yes, that's actually Snoop Dogg in True Crime, as opposed to just Snoop Dogg providing his likeness to a character. He says things like, "This is the Snoop Dizzle!" and, "Feels good to be the D-O-Double-G," which nicely disambiguates the issue.
Wilson is only referred to as "Nick" in the versions of Tony Hawk's Underground 2 he appears in, but both games came out through the same publisher, and the outfit "Nick" wears is an exact match for one Wilson wears in True Crime:
(Also, can I mention how maddening it is to watch Tony Hawk's Underground 2 footage and try to figure out if it's in the correct aspect ratio or not? I kept watching video after video, thinking, okay, surely this video was uploaded to YouTube without care; look how vertically squashed the skaters are—and then something circular would come across the screen, but properly executed in infinite symmetry, as the great circlemaker intended. I am beginning to suspect that, somehow, I am watching playthroughs wherein all the skateboarding—the actual gaming bits—are in the wrong aspect ratios, while at the same time all of the menus and nondiegetic indicators are properly squared away. But that can't be possible, can it? Can it?)