I spent many hours playing this as a kid! Good times! Happy new year everyone 🎉 🍻

Christopher Walken is a legend lmao

"Don't be surprised if you're stuck in this fight for a while" it's been almost 20 years and I'm still stuck on it😢

I played this game so much as a kid but never beat it and had no idea it had so many endings 😂

There was a period where I thought this game was the best game ever. When this came out I was just starting to get into martial arts movies and other stuff like Rush Hour. Then this dropped in my lap on Christmas of 2003. Couldn't have had better timing.

I'm like 90% sure this video was narrated by Steve buscemi

its a shame that streets of NY was way buggier than the first game but this was a classic. love that it lived on in Sleeping Dogs, which was originally going to be True Crime: Hong Kong

I wasn’t allowed to play gta as a kid but this got a pass and it was the greatest game ever

My damn childhood!! This flipping game!! Man there were times this game had me shook as well. Especially when they went mystical! With that being said, Nick Kang was wicked!! I hope you do streets of NY and also Sleeping Dogs!! If you haven’t played it, that story is well written!

Me and my cousins played this so much. We unlocked Snoop Dogg and made bets on how many people we could arrest in a time limit. I was just thinking about this game and it popped up on my feed.

I hate that every open world game is called a gta clone 😒

This game reminds me of my little brother.  We've grown apart over the years so this game is now very nostalgic to me.   He was always the bad cop in this game and thought the good cop route was lame and boring.  This game really brought out the differences in our characters and how the next decade or so would play out.  Thanks for the memory lane drive.

Man where do I even start. Remember that early point in your childhood where things were a blur? That’s where I was with this game, I loved how expansive the map was compared to GTA, with me being so young the repetitious early 00’s map design was actually somehow interesting to me. I was fascinated when I connected the dots with the Motorola phone map, and my own mom’s cell phone. I remember being absolutely frustrated with the fact I could never obtain Good Cop status, in hindsight it’s probably because I gleefully ran over peds like any other sandbox. The last act of the game can play before my eyes. I also remember the shame/guilt in Walken’s voice after I’d get annihilated by the last boss. That ending sucked lol. Good memories with these old PS2 OG’s…

I remember playing this game in high school when I got my tonsils out. I had my parents take me to the store to pick it up right after my surgery. I remember being so excited to be at home playing video games and eating ice cream while all my friends were at school. I don’t remember the branching story paths though, I might have got the bad ending and called it a day.

This game felt like Max Payne mixed with GTA. Especially with the bullet time dodging and diving shooting mechanics.

The Yakuza 0 music really elevates this trip down memory lane on a game I played way too much of on my GameCube. I love it

As someone who played it at the time I can tell you it was very impressive, as for the no secrets there were the odd few Easter eggs but also the bones to collect to unlock snoop dogg.

One point about this game I'd like to make is that the soundtrack was astonishing, fighting general kim atop a rainy skyscraper at night to the sound of Deftones - Minerva was an iconic moment for me, that and sneaking around to Grade 8 in the stealth sections 👌🏻👌🏻👌🏻👌🏻

Man I used to love this game as a kid! What a throwback

I would love to see you tackle True Crime Streets of New York next! It's a bit of a mess, but oddly compelling, as far as I remember!

The best thing about this series, is that we got Sleeping Dogs out of it