User blog comment:The.Outsider/AC3 Modern Day Element/@comment-24.183.193.225-20120804150235/@comment-5503561-20120806014228

Rome, if you want to see modern NYC, you have billions of other games taking place there. From every Spider-Man game, through Prototype 1 and 2, ending at Crysis 2. There's many more that I haven't mentioned, and I'm personally sick of seeing Manhattan over and over again.

I've never been there for real, yet I know the layout of the island like a regular citizen, thanks to its overuse in games.