
The premise is that you're a new initiate into the street gang The Outlawz (although with no back-story, character or introduction it feels as though you've just dropped into the world, Mr Bean-style). Ora carefully monitored, marketing-led, BBFC-friendly interpretation of Ebonics, expressly designed to appeal to the target demographic, at any rate. A melange of drive-bys, gangbanging, robberies, urban decay, violent actions and people talking Ebonics. Sadly, Crime Life couldn't be further from these aims if it tried, and instead represents a particularly nasty nadir in the path of gaming history.

It's a noble cause, a good cause, a just cause, a cause we at PC heartily endorse. A return to the days when gaming meant collecting golden rings in colourful platform worlds made of ice cream, and a colour palette bedecked with yellows, pinks and lime greens.


An end to all this dreary urban yoof street gang violence dark days misery. Popular gaming commentary website UK Resistance recently ran what it called the Blue Sky In Games campaign.
