Gangstar: Crime City
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| Gangstar: Crime City | |
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 The Gangstar: Crime City game art. |
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| Developer(s) | Gameloft |
| Publisher(s) | Gameloft |
| Distributor(s) | Gameloft, phone service providers |
| Designer(s) | Gameloft |
| Engine | Java |
| Platform(s) | Mobile (J2ME) |
| Release date | 2006 |
| Genre(s) | Action/Adventure/Sandbox/Racing |
| Mode(s) | Sandbox, Racing |
| Media | Digital phone download |
| Input methods | Keypad |
Gangstar: Crime City is a 2006 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.
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[edit] Gameplay
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 like Los Angeles police. Like Grand Theft Auto, the game has a free-roam, sandbox-style structure, and allows the player to do whichever mission at his/her own leisure.
[edit] Pedestrians
There are only three types of pedestrians in the game. Some of the simplified versions of the game have only one model for the Gangster pedestrian group.
[edit] Whore
The prostitutes usually carry money and are not hostile to anyone.
[edit] Gangster
The Gang Members are usually hostile if provoked, some carry money or have a killing bonus.
[edit] Policeman
The policemen almost always have money and killing a large enough number of policemen will raise the player's wanted level.
[edit] Vehicles
The number of the vehicles varies for the version. For example, the "simplified" version has only three vehicles - Horizon, Saga GT, and Police Car - in the Freeroam mode.
[edit] Horizon
Color: Blue
Horizon is the basic vehicle in the game, akin to Manana or Perennial of the Grand Theft Auto series. It cannot accelerate further than 139 kilometres per hour.
[edit] Evyl
Color: Light-Blue
Evyl is another basic car present in the game. It's similar to Greenwood or Esperanto of the Grand Theft Auto series. Its highest speed is 166 km/h, like the Police Car.
[edit] Pimpstar
Color: Black
The Pimpstar is an SUV, similar to the Rancher or Landstalker in the Grand Theft Auto series, and is based on the Hummer H2/H3. As suggested, its main use, although not shown, is pimping. Only the Gangster pedestrian group ever drives this vehicle. Its highest speed is 156.
[edit] Police Car
Color: Black + White
As suggested, the Police Car contains policemen, who will make an attempt to arrest you once the vehicle is stolen. More and more Police Cars show up as the player gains a higher Wanted Level. Its limit of speed is 166, like Evyl.
[edit] Saga GT
Color: Blue + stripes
The Saga GT is the most basic sports car of the game, akin to the Deluxo or the Kuruma of the Grand Theft Auto series. Its highest speed is 176.
[edit] Longhorn
Color: Orange
This vehicle is present in two iterations - orange with two white stripes (Longhorn Vegas) and plain orange (Longhorn), the latter being the player-controlled in races and the former being an opponent, or, in other versions of the game, a freeroam version of the vehicle called the Longhorn. While the limit of the Longhorn Vegas's speed is 275 km/h, the Longhorn variation's limit is 219 km/h.
[edit] Weapon Stores
The weapon stores are similar to Grand Theft Auto's Ammu-Nation. However, not only guns could be bought there.
[edit] Pistol
Pistol could not be bought as its ammo is unlimited.
[edit] Shotgun
[edit] Uzi
[edit] AK-47
[edit] Bazooka
[edit] Dialogue
Most dialogue in the game is "street-like". Words such as "ho" (in the game it is censored as h*), "pimp", "brotha", and "homie" are often used throughout the game. As it seems, the dialogue is stereotypical "gangsta" dialogue.
[edit] Easter Eggs
- The Miami-like part of Crime City includes an "Ocean Drive" area, complete with an "Ocean View" hotel.
- Near the hotel a rocket launcher is located, possibly spoofing the fact that in Grand Theft Auto: Vice City the rocket launcher's spawn point was in a different hotel's pool.
- If the player moves into another part of the city, the loading screen shows the vehicle the player has stolen and words from Crime City Police Department prompting the citizens to call 555-We-Tip if anybody spots it. 555-We-Tip is a fictional phone number in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, used in a mission of the same name for an arrest of a DA.
