Video: Times Square As Portrayed In Video Games

Please note the Hard Rock, the Soft Rock, and Hollyweird Cafes!

The team at Achievement Hunter has put together a video montage of how Times Square is portrayed in video games. One of them explains, "I got to thinking what is the place, the location that's been viewed the most times in a video game. So we looked into it and we found that Times Square has been featured in like a billion XBOX 360 games." Unsurprisingly they are mostly dark scenes, but watch to the end when you get to see the Hulk throw a taco at the old Times Square Building!

[via Laughing Squid]

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By Jen Carlson in Arts & Entertainment on July 18, 2011 6:11 PM

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3fingersbrown

Love murdering tourists in GTA 4. Decimating "Broker" is wonderfully cathartic as well. You can tell a lot of natives worked on that game.

jibbly

In Gran Turismo 4 for PS2 there's a NYC course that goes from Times Sq down I think to the Flat Iron and up to Columbus Circle (pre-renovation). It's actually a nice time capsule of when they scanned the streets around 2002-2003.