Just a thought I had - will the World Trade Centre be part of the New York skylines in the video game?

Must be a bit of a head-scratcher, that one. Since it is set in 1991 there is no reason for the towers not to be there, and neither could it be in any way disrespectful for them to be there - but you have to imagine programmers thinking long and hard about it. Has enough time passed in the eyes of the cautious?

I reckon the game will be framed so we simply never see that part of the Manhattan horizon, which would be a bit of a shame really since the original movie provided one of the more iconic views of that area and it'd be nice to homage that in the game. Also a lack of them slightly detracts from the immersion of setting the game at a specific time in history… hmmm… They might be there for all I know, though.

it's completely unimportant to the game, of course. As I said, just a thought.

I think the game will have the WTC…. those were there in 1991, so I cannot see why not.

Besides… it can be some kind of tribute or good memories, as you wanna call it.

I agree - it's 1991, so they ought to be there. But I can also foresee caution around that. Simply put, if you put the twin towers in a game, you're going to get complaints. Silly but true. I wonder if the programmers might just forego realistic geography for the time period to avoid that.

The way I see it is if you were to make something wherein the towers were central to your plot, it would probably draw less flack then if they were just background. They're totemistic of something way beyond a recognisable silouhette now and I imagine it must be hard not to be drawn on the whoe ‘you’re trivialising it' thing. ie, “if they aren't central to the plot, there is no need to see them at all - you'll get more complaints for skyline accuracy than you will for a slightly revised version on this one”.

let me be absloutely clear. It's Ghostbusters, it's light-hearted, it'd 1991. If you turn and face that way on top of a building in the game you should ABSOLUTELY see the WTC standing there. That's my opinion. It doesn't take much of a stretch to imagine people getting themselves into a froth about it, though.

Genuine question. has any game released since that time been set in new york during the time period the towers stood for? if so, were they excluded? it's just a scholars interest, for want of a better phrase - i'm intrigued as to how much thought a programmer would give it? would they feel forced to include some kind of disclaimer? is it more trouble than it's worth to be hisorically accurate? After all, there is no weaver hall at columbia university - we're already in a very slightly skewed version of New York…

Well, he have to ask to the people who lives in NY and who suffered in the events back in the bummer 9/11.

We can get an idea from them about complains that the game could receive if it includes the WTC.

But isn't that over pandering slightly? it's representing a specific period in history so it really shouldn't matter, but still it's a game so it's frivolous and could be easily spun to be disresectful… nnnnnnnng! it's doing my head in and i made it all up! :-) man…

Anyway, ‘bummer’?! heh!

They're in GTA IV anyway (*peter)

(And I know it's “Liberty City” but come on, we all know that's NYC)

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They're in GTA IV anyway (*peter)

(And I know it's “Liberty City” but come on, we all know that's NYC)

Where? I am still trying to find the firehouse.

I don't know where exactly… Steal a copter and try to find them :p

I say ‘put the WTC in and damn the complainers’.

Nobody is ignoring the tragedy or disrespecting those who died, but if there's someone who is going to complain about it then they're gonna do just that. Either way there'd be someone complaining, either about their inclusion or removal, so might as well put them in and be historically accurate and just ignore the people saying the towers shouldn't have been recreated.

This reminds me when they released the first season of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles on DVD. People were complaining that the WTC can be seen in the episodes, and they actually wanted them to edit them out and re-release the DVD. That's just stupid (*egon)