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GTA IV Trailer Inflames Big Apple Politicians
GP writes "The GTA4 trailer isn't 48 hours old yet, but NYC politicians are up in arms because the game's setting, Liberty City, is a virtual version of the Big Apple." Obviously these guys never played GTA3, since it was also set in the "fictional" Liberty City, that also felt a lot like NYC.
The movies pay a royalty for using the likeness of cities in most circumstances. If there was an outrage, it would likely be over not getting their cut.
This is one reason you see LA being called NYC or NYC being called Chicago in some movies. It isn't because they can't read a map, rather because Once city lets them shoot cheaper then another and the story says it is a certain city. If you come from these places, you will see stunning similarities in the skyline. Although now it is possible to add landmarks relatively easily making it more easy to do this.