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Gangstar: Crime City

Gangstar: Crime City is an open-world action-adventure video game published by Gameloft and developed by at least one of its subsidiaries; it is the first installment in the Gangstar series, was released in…

1 October 2006

Gangstar: Crime City is an adventure developed by Gameloft, released 1 October 2006 on Legacy Mobile Device.

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What Gangstar: Crime City is

Gangstar: Crime City is an adventure game developed by Gameloft and released in 2006. It is available on Legacy Mobile Device only. It runs on Java.

The premise, in the publisher's words

The player character arrives in Crime City, the fictitious setting of the game, and is pointed by a character (probably the aforementioned Kingpin) to the neighborhood of Crank Marshall, an old 'brother' (friend) of his, who gives the player jobs to do; the first is to learn to drive in the game, the second to kill Marshall's nephew, who has quit working for him, the third to steal a car from some rival gangsters, and the fourth to kill some ex-employees of his (who have also presumably turned against him). After that, recognizing the player's potential, he sends him to do some jobs for police officer Inspector Barnes, a "good friend of [his]", who he says "[is] deep down a chilling cold…
Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are action and open world. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

What it launched against

Gangstar: Crime City launched on 1 October 2006, within three weeks of Company of Heroes, Bully, Pokémon Diamond Version and Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Double Agent.

Released around the same time: Company of Heroes, Bully, Pokémon Diamond Version, Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Double Agent.

Official trailer

Gameplay Video thumbnail

Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.

Screenshots

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Quick answers

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When did Gangstar: Crime City come out?
Gangstar: Crime City was released on 1 October 2006 for Legacy Mobile Device.

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