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The best urban setting games

There are a lot of games that take place in urban environments. Cities from any epoch (both ancient and modern) were often used as the setting, or even for the purpose, for any kind of game: simulation, strategy, action, etc. Think about a medieval town, an ancient city, a modern metropolis, a futuristic megalopolis; you can bet that someone used one of these as the setting of a successful game.
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Space Quest 6: Roger Wilco in The Spinal Frontier

DOSWindows XP/98/951995protecteddemo4/5 Sierra On-Line
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Vette!

DOS19894/5 Sphere
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SimCity 3000

Windows XP/98/951999protected4/5 Maxis
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Corruption

DOS19884/5 Magnetic Scrolls
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Double Dragon

DOS19884/5 Technos Japan
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Jones in the Fast Lane

DOS19914/5 Sierra On-Line
Jones in the Fast Lane is the kind of game that you don't see often these days. It's a mix between a digital board game and a modern day life simulation. The goal of the game is to live the life of Jones, making choices about school, work, your home, etc. Graphics is a mix of cartonish and digitized characters, very reminishent of some of the best ...
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Grand Theft Auto

DOSWindows XP/98/9519974/5 DMA Design
In Grand Theft Auto the player takes the role of a criminal who can freely roam around the city (Liberty City) completing tasks for the local mobs: stealing cars, killing pedestrians, all of it while avoiding the police and the army. The freedom of gameplay and the "I'm the bad guy" appeal of the game made the Grand Theft Auto series very popular.
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2400 A.D.

DOS19884/5 Origin Systems
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The Bard's Tale

DOS19874/5 Interplay Productions
The Bard's Tale 1 is the first chapter of a popular first person RPG series by Interplay. You control a group of six adventurers with the task of defeating the evil wizard Mangar the Dark. You will fight monters, explore the city of Skara Brae, solve riddles and guide your party into earning levels, gold and glory.
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SimCopter

Windows XP/98/9519964/5 Maxis
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Home Alone 2: Lost in New York

DOS19924/5 Manley Associates
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221B Baker Street

DOS19864/5 Datasoft
221B Baker Street is a turn-based strategy strategy game developed by Datasoft. 221B Baker Street is base on the tabletop game of the same name "221B Baker Street" and it plays in a very similar way, with dices, etc.
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APB

DOS19894/5 Atari
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Batman: the Caped Crusader

DOS19884/5 Special FX
Batman: The Caped Crusader is an action-adventure video game released in the late 1980s. It was developed and published by Ocean Software and was available on various home computer systems of that era, including the Commodore 64, ZX Spectrum, Amstrad CPC, Amiga, Atari ST and, of course, DOS. The game was a graphic action-adventure that combine...
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Crime City

DOS19934/5
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Felony!

DOS19844/5 BrainBank
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Ghostbusters

DOS2006remake4/5
Ghostbusters is a abandoned action game based on the 80s hit movie Ghostbusters. Ghostbusters was released in 2006 as a remake of the game of the same name developed by Activision in 1984 for a number of platforms including C64, Atari 2600, ZX Spectrum.
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Hill Street Blues

DOS19914/5 Krisalis
Hill Street Blues is an old DOS "driving" game developed by Krisalis in 1991. The gameplay it's similar to a Grand Theft Auto clone (we're talking about GTA 1 or 2) in which you are the police and you have to apprehend criminals. Hill Street Blues is a rare example of game based on a TV series.
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Industry Giant 2

Windows XP/98/952002protected4/5 JoWooD Entertainment
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Manhunter 2: San Francisco

DOSMac OS19894/5 Evryware
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Quarantine

DOS19944/5 Imagexcel
Quarantine is a futuristic racing/driving game released by GameTek in 1994 for DOS. Quarantine is set in a dark dystopian futuristic city where the player drives around in a taxi cab, picking up passengers and killing everyone else. If you loved Carmageddon, you will also like Quarantine. Stay away if you don't like gratuitous violence, gore and bl...
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Sherlock Holmes: The Vatican Cameos

DOS19864/5 Magicom Multimedia
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Softporn Adventure

DOS1981freewareNSFW4/5 Sierra On-Line
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Tex Murphy: The Pandora Directive

Windows XP/98/95DOSLinuxMac OS1996protected4/5 Access Software
Tex Murphy: The Pandora Directive is the sequel to Under a Killing Moon and the 4th game in the Tex Murphy series. The Pandora Directive is a first-person 3D adventure game set in a dark sci-fi version of the U.S.A., more specifically in a futuristic San Francisco. The Pandora Directive was developed by Access Software and released in 1996 for...
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Tex Murphy: Under a Killing Moon

Windows XP/98/95DOSLinuxMac OS1994protected4/5 Access Software
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The Taking of Beverly Hills

DOS19914/5 Off The Wall Productions
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Beneath a Steel Sky

DOS1994freeware4/5 Revolution Software
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The Bard's Tale 2: The Destiny Knight

DOS19884/5 Interplay Productions
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Mean Streets

DOS1989protected4/5 Access Software