List of video games set in New York City

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

Title	Year	Platform(s)	Notes
18 Wheels of Steel series		PC
18 Wheeler: American Pro Trucker		Arcade/Dreamcast/Gamecube/PS2
25 To Life		PC/PS2/Xbox
50 Cent: Bulletproof		PS2/Xbox
Alone in the Dark	2008	PC/PS2/PS3/Xbox360/Wii
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3	2011	PC/PS3/Xbox 360	Set in the near future, with at least two levels involving open warfare in the city, specifically Lower Manhattan
Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2			Featured in the first Allied mission and the third Soviet mission, as well as a multiplayer/skirmish map
Cruis'n World	1996	Arcade/N64
Crysis 2	2011	PC/PS3/Xbox360
NY		PC/Mac
The Darkness		PS3/Xbox360
Def Jam Vendetta		PS2/GameCube
Def Jam: Fight for NY		PS2/Xbox/GameCube
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 aka. 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	2002	PC
Duke Nukem: Zero Hour		N64
Fahrenheit aka. Indigo Prophecy	2005	PC/PS2/Xbox
Fantastic Four	2005
Fighting Force	1997	Playstation/Nintendo 64	Famous New York City Landmarks such as the World Trade Center can be seen in The Background. Areas such as The Bronx and Central Park are also in Playable levels.
Final Fight	1989
Freedom Fighters	2003	PC/PS2/Xbox/GameCube
Forza Motorsport 2		Xbox360
Forza Motorsport 3		Xbox360
Gargoyles		Sega Genesis
Ghostbusters video games
Gunblade NY Sega Arcade
The Godfather: The Game	2007	PC/PS2/PSP/PS3/Xbox/Xbox360/Wii	Taking place in New York from 1945–1955
The Godfather II	2009	PC/PS3/Xbox360	Takes place in the late 1950s and early 1960s in New York City, Miami, and Havana, Cuba
Gran Turismo 4		PS2	Features New York as a race track
Lost in New York		Super NES, NES, Sega Genesis, Game Boy, MS-DOS
Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis		MS-DOS, Wii
Left Behind: Eternal Forces			Set in an unspecified "near-future" time after the biblical Rapture
Left Behind: Tribulation Forces
Left Behind 3: Rise of the Antichrist
Legendary	2008	PC/PS3/Xbox360
Mafia 2	2010	PC
Manhattan Chase		PC
Manhunter: New York		PC
Max Payne	2001	PC/Mac/PS2/Xbox/GBA/
Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne	2003	PC/PS2/Xbox
Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty	2001	PC/PS2/Xbox	Most of the game is set on the Hudson River; the final fight is set atop Federal Hall
Midnight Club: Street Racing		PS2/GBA
Mike Tyson's Punch-Out		NES	Where Little Mac trains betweens fights
Mortal Kombat 3 and Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3	1995	Arcade/PC/Mega Drive/Genesis/Saturn/SNES/Game Boy/Game Gear/PS1
Mortal Kombat	2011
Mystery P.I.: The New York Fortune		PC
N.Y.C. 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
Peter Jackson's King Kong: The Official Game of the Movie	2005
Pilotwings		SNES
Project Gotham Racing		Xbox	Features many cities with New York as one of them.
Project Gotham Racing 3		Xbox360
Prototype	2009	PC/PS3/Xbox360
Resistance 3	2011	PS3
S.C.A.T.: Special Cybernetic Attack Team		NES
Second Sight		PC/PS2/Xbox/GameCube
Soldier of Fortune	2000
Smashing Drive	2000	Arcade/GameCub/Xbox/GBA
Spider-Man video games
Spawn: Armageddon	2003	PS2/Xbox/GameCube
Streets of Rage		SEGA Mega Drive
Street Fighter III: Third Strike	1999	Arcade/Dreamcast/PS2/Xbox
Syphon Filter	1999	PS
Syphon Filter 2	2000	PS
Tekken 2	1997	PS	The character, Paul Phoenix, had a stage which was set in New York
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles video games
Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory	2005	PC/PS2/Xbox/GameCube/Xbox360/DS/PS3/Wii
Top Spin		PC/PS2/Xbox	Includes a tennis tournament in New York
True Crime: New York City	2005	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	2008	PC/PS3/Xbox360
Tycoon City: New York		PC	A city-building game where players are tasked with developing Manhattan.
Ultimate Marvel vs Capcom 3	2011	Xbox 360/PS3/PS Vita	Some stages are set near famous NYC landmarks such as The Statue of Liberty and Manhattan Island.
US Racer		PC
World in Conflict	2007	PC	A RTS where USSR begins an invasion on US soil starting by attacking New York and taking the Liberty statue.
World of Subways Vol. 1	2008	PC	A subway driver Simulator which takes place in the underground of New York City and New Jersey.
The Warriors	2005	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)

• 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

• Futurama, in "New New York"

• EarthBound, has a city called Fourside, which is also referred as the Big Banana, a parody of the New York's nickname the big apple.

• Mother 3, New Pork City is an obvious parody of the city, for example, it parodies the Empire State Building with the Empire PorkY Building.

• Sonic series, has a lot of New York parodies.

• 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

• Streets of Rage (Sega Genesis, Mega Drive), set in an unnamed city based on New York City; many prominent New York City landmarks, such as the World Trade Center are visible throughout the game and on the Mega Drive cover of Streets of Rage 3

• Final Fight (Arcade, Super Nintendo), Set in a city called Metro City. Loosely based on New York City areas.

• inFamous is set in Empire City, based on New York City.

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