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Gameloft's move into the free-to-play arena is now well established, of course, and from a business perspective, the publisher would no doubt argue it makes perfect sense to revisit one of its past hits in Urban Crime. Only the missions and plot have been ditched, with Gameloft instead attempting to layer freemium-friendly elements - and new UI - into a game that's showing its age graphically.Īlso, by hacking out Miami Vindication's plot, Gameloft has stripped the game's violence of all context, resulting in a crude take on gang culture that's often hard to bearĮarly disdain for such an approach is not hard to find: Urban Crime currently sports a two star rating on the UK App Store, with players taking a dislike to both Gameloft's attempt to rehash an old release – one which, as Pocket Gamer readers will know, didn't win all too many plaudits itself - and its efforts to covert what was a paid game into a freemium one. You can see this from the comparison screens below, with Gangstar: Miami Vindication above and Urban Crime below. Return tripĬlose inspection reveals Miami Vindication's entire setting – from the game's city streets, to the cars and people that populate it – has been picked up and dropped into Urban Crime. The only problem is, those very same streets popped up almost two years ago in Gameloft's Gangstar: Miami Vindication.

The scandal surrounding its most recent iPhone and iPad release, however, centres on the suggestion it's a cut-and-paste job of one of its existing titles.įree-to-play release Urban Crime charges players with making a name for themselves for all the wrong reasons on the streets of Miami, killing rival gang members one after another until the city is theirs.

No stranger to accusations of plagiarism, Gameloft has made a name for itself in recent years by mirroring some of the biggest console games with its own mobile releases - N.O.V.A.

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