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This article lists computer and video games in which a major part of the action takes place in New York City or a fictional city closely based on it.

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List of games which feature New York City

• 18 Wheels of Steel series (PC)

• 25 To Life (PC/PS2/Xbox)

• 50 Cent: Bulletproof (PS2/Xbox)

• Alone in the Dark (PC/PS2/PS3/Xbox360/Wii)

• The Big Apple (Arcade)

• Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2 - Featured in the first Allied mission and the third Soviet mission, as well as a multiplayer/skirmish map

• Crazy Taxi 2, two cities, "Around Apple" and "Small Apple", both somewhat based on New York City

• Crazy Taxi 3: High Roller, includes "Small Apple" from Crazy Taxi 2

• CSI NY: The Game (PC/Mac)

• The Darkness (PS3/Xbox360)

• Def Jam Vendetta (PS2/GameCube)

• Def Jam Fight for NY (PS2/Xbox/GameCube) and Def Jam Fight for NY: The Takeover (PSP)

• Deus Ex (PC/Mac/PS2) - A futuristic New York set in the 2050s which features Battery Park, Hell's Kitchen, and Liberty Island.

• Die Hard Trilogy (PC/PS/Saturn) - The third part Die Hard: With a Vengeance, like the film of the same name, was set in New York.

• Driver: You Are the Wheelman (PC/PS/Mac/GBC) - Features New York as the final stage alongside Miami, San Francisco, and Los Angeles.

• Driver: Parallel Lines (PC/PS2/Xbox/Wii), takes place in 1978 and present day 2006 New York City, including all the boroughs except Staten Island and parts of the New Jersey shore.

• Driver 76 (PSP), handheld version of Driver: Parallel Lines

• Duke Nukem: Manhattan Project (PC)

• Duke Nukem: Zero Hour (N64)

• Fahrenheit / Indigo Prophecy (PC/PS2/Xbox)

• Fantastic Four (2005)

• Freedom Fighters (PC/PS2/Xbox/GameCube)

• Forza Motorsport 2 (Xbox360)

• Gargoyles (Sega Genesis)

• Ghostbusters video games

• The Godfather: The Game (PC/PS2/PSP/PS3/Xbox/Xbox360/Wii), taking place in New York from 1945-1955

• The Godfather 2: The Game (PC/PS3/Xbox360), taking place in a small borough somewhere in Long Island. Also sets in Miami and Havana

• Gran Turismo 4 (PS2) - Features New York as a race track

• Home Alone 2: Lost in New York (Super NES, NES, Sega Genesis, Game Boy, MS-DOS)

• Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis (MS-DOS, Wii)

• King Kong (2005)

• Left Behind: Eternal Forces

• Legendary (2008) (PC/PS3/Xbox360)

• Manhattan Chase (PC)

• Manhunter: New York (PC)

• Max Payne (PC/Mac/PS2/Xbox/GBA/)

• Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne (PC/PS2/Xbox)

• Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty (PC/PS2/Xbox)

• Midnight Club: Street Racing (PS2/GBA) Also features London

• Mystery P.I.: The New York Fortune (PC)

• Mike Tyson's Punch-Out (NES), where Little Mac trains betweens fights

• NYC: The Big Apple - AKA "New York City" (Atari 8-bit home computers/Commodore 64) by Russ Segal, Synapse Software, 1984.

• Outlaw Golf 2 (PS2/Xbox) - Features a fictitious golf course in Central Park

• Parasite Eve (PS), including an extensive secret level set in a heavily-infested Chrysler Building

• Pilotwings (SNES)

• Project Gotham Racing (Xbox) - Features many cities with New York as one of them.

• Project Gotham Racing 3 (Xbox360) - As well as Tokyo, Las Vegas, London, and the Nürburgring Nordschleife circuit

• Prototype (PC/PS3/Xbox360)

• S.C.A.T.: Special Cybernetic Attack Team (NES)

• Second Sight (PC/PS2/Xbox/GameCube)

• Soldier of Fortune

• Spider-Man video game series

• Spawn: Armageddon

• Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory (PC/PS2/Xbox/GameCube/Xbox360/DS/PS3/Wii)

• Streets of Rage (SEGA)

• Syphon Filter (PS)

• Syphon Filter 2 (PS)

• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles video games

• Top Spin (PC/PS2/Xbox) - includes a tennis tournament in New York

• True Crime: New York City (PC/PS2/Xbox/GameCube) - Noteworthy for featuring a street-accurate recreation of Manhattan with many landmarks as well as the ability to use the New York City Subway and taxis to get around the island. Bridges such as the Brooklyn Bridge are present but are blocked off.

• Turning Point: Fall of Liberty (PC/PS3/Xbox360)

• Tycoon City: New York (PC) - A city-building game where players are tasked with developing Manhattan.

• US Racer (PC)

• The Warriors (PS2/PSP/Xbox)

• Vampire: The Masquerade - Redemption (PC)

• XIII (PC/PS2/Xbox/GameCube/Mac)

• Yo! Noid (NES)

List of games which feature a fictional city closely based on New York City

• All set in Liberty City, a New York City look-alike
  • Grand Theft Auto (PC, PS, GBC)
  • Grand Theft Auto III (PC, PS2, Xbox)
  • Grand Theft Auto (GBA)
  • Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (PC, PlayStation 2, Xbox), featured one mission in Liberty City
  • Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories (PlayStation 2, PSP)
  • Grand Theft Auto IV (PC, PS3, Xbox 360)
  • GTA IV: The Lost and Damned (PC, Xbox 360)
  • GTA IV: The Ballad of Gay Tony (PC, Xbox 360)
  • Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars (Nintendo DS, PSP)

• Futurama, in "New New York"

• Kingpin: Life of Crime, set in Radio City, a city that resembles New York City in the art-deco era

• Mafia: The City of Lost Heaven (PC, PlayStation 2, Xbox), set in Lost Heaven, a representation of New York City and Chicago in the 1930s

• Mafia II (PC, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360), set in Empire Bay, a representation of New York City in the late 1940s

See also

• Culture of New York City
• Media in New York City

Other city video game lists

• List of fiction set in Chicago
• List of video games set in London