I actually enjoyed the PC version of the original True Crime game, but man do you have my sympathies for having to struggle through this. Although your pains were humorous to read.
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One of the game's themed criminal organizations is called the 'President's Club'. They're theoretically named after the presidents who appear on paper money: Lincoln, Hamilton, Jackson, Grant. Their leader calls himself Benjamin (as opposed to Franklin) because, according to the manual, he appreciates the irony of the fact that Benjamin Franklin wasn't a president. Of course, neither was Alexander Hamilton, who appears on the ten dollar bill. When two of the five members of one's themed gang don't have names that correspond to one's theme, the theme is officially broken. Were the developers unaware of this fairly easy-to-discover piece of trivia, or were they so proud of their 'ironic' joke that they didn't want to confuse matters by having another member of the gang named 'Washington'? Either way, the result is hilarious stupidity that makes the rest of the rest of the game look even more ridiculous.
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My guess is the designers of the game stayed up late watching old Keanu flicks and got inspiration from the movie "Point Break" and the ex-Presidents but felt they need to combine it with a little gangsta-borrowed "All About the Benjamins" and voila, the misnamed President's Club.
Actually, I imagine they knew full well about the fact that 2/5 of their members weren't actually Presidents, but by then the voice overs were recorded and the story written so they just went with it and hoped nobody would notice. Pitiful.
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