New York Nights: Success in the City

New York Nights: Success in the City is an interaction-based action-adventure video game developed by Gameloft Montreal and published by Gameloft. It was released for button-operated mobile phones in 2005 for iPhone in 2009. New York Nights is the first installment in the Nights series, and features two-dimensional (2D) graphics and is similar to The Sims series. A sequel, New York Nights 2: Friends For Life was later released for mobile phones.

New York Nights: Success in the City
Developer(s)Gameloft Montreal
Publisher(s)Gameloft
Designer(s)Stainlas Dewarvin
Barbara Laurent
Programmer(s)Dominique Canzeri
Stefan Podea
Simon Boucher<>Mathieu Latremouille
Writer(s)Jess Kimball
Alexis Green-Painchaud
SeriesNights
Platform(s)Mobile phone
iPhone
ReleaseMobile
2005 [1]
iPhone
Genre(s)Action-adventure
Life simulation
Mode(s)Single-player
SoundRomain Gauthier
Nicola Archambault
Mathieu Vachon


Gameplay

iPhone

The player only taps on the screen to point the area where their avatar will go. To chat with non-player characters, the player has to tap the interaction button prompted whenever near one. Many interactions that can be performed, such as chatting, flirting, and pranking. Many activities can be performed, depending on which location the player is at. Performing activities results in addition or subtraction of the player character's attributes (there are 16 of them). The player gets to visit the many famous landmarks of Manhattan.

Mobile

The player can use the directional pad (D-pad) or the numeric keypad to move the player character. To chat with non-player characters; the player has to come close to the one and press the button on the center of the D-pad or 5 on the numeric keypad when prompted to interact. There is a heavy amount of interactions that can be performed. Many activities and actions can be performed, such as eating pizza, watching television (TV) and getting a tan. These actions contribute to the four attributes of the character (they are: Health, Beauty, Humor, and Culture). The player visits facades commonly found in NYC.

Reception

New York Nights received generally positive reviews from gaming companies such as IGN and Pocketgamer who gave the game an 8.8/10 and 8/10 points respectively. It also became subject to many game reviews.

"There is always something to do, it's easy to play (...) and advance the story, and the game has a wonderful sense of humor." -IGN[2]

"Attractive, funny and definitely worth a fling - just don't tell the wife." -Pocketgamer (8/10 silver award)[3]

Other game reviewers such as GameSpot Asia gave the game an 8.2/10.[4] Slidetoplay gave it a 3.0/5[5] and PCmag gave the game a 4.5/5 reviews saying that the game was "Excellent... Just as long as you go home and take the subway before 3:00am".[6]

References
  1. "Mobile release date". IGN. Retrieved 2008-03-16.
  2. "IGN Review". Retrieved 23 October 2012.
  3. "Pocketgamer Review". Retrieved 23 October 2012.
  4. "Gamespot Asia". Archived from the original on 16 September 2013. Retrieved 23 October 2012.
  5. "Slide-to-play". Retrieved 23 October 2012.
  6. "PCmag.com".


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