Gangstar: Crime City
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Gangstar: Crime City game art.
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| Developer(s) | Gameloft |
| Publisher(s) | Gameloft |
| Designer(s) | Gameloft |
| Series | Gangstar |
| Platform(s) | Mobile (Java ME) |
| Release | 2006 |
| Genre(s) | Third-person shooter, action-adventure, open world, racing |
| Mode(s) | Single-player |
Gangstar: Crime City is a 2006 open world action-adventure mobile game developed and published by Gameloft. The game is about a gangster who explores the fictional town of Crime City looking for money, power, and occupation of other gangs.
A sequel, Gangstar 2: Kings of L.A., was released on November 2008.
Crime City is almost like a combination of Los Angeles and Miami (mostly Miami-based areas). Areas such as Ocean Beach (as used in Grand Theft Auto: Vice City) and Ocean Drive are examples. Policemen and their vehicles are patterned after the LAPD.
Like Grand Theft Auto, the game is structured as an open world, sandbox-based environment, affording the player an area in which to move around. On foot, the player is able to run and operate a variety of vehicles, but is limited to using firearms, though this is compensated by inifinite ammunition on the pistol to make up for the lack of melee combat. While storyline missions are necessary to progress through the game, they are not mandatory as players can complete them at their own leisure. Aside from the main storyline, players can also partake in side activities such as street racing, purchasing properties such as a restaurant and a recording label, and a drug-dealing minigame, though given the heavily-censored nature of the game, euphemisms like "candies" were used to avoid any direct references to narcotics.
The weapon stores are similar to Grand Theft Auto's Ammu-Nation, although the player can buy additional health and bodyguards there. The selection ranges from the pistol, with infinite ammunition, the Uzi, which can be used for drive-by shootings, the AK-47 rifle, a pump-action shotgun, and the rocket launcher, which can only be obtained in certain places. Unlike in Grand Theft Auto, players are only restricted to using weapons; hand-to-hand combat and melee attacks aren't available in-game.
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