Grand Theft Auto Goes to Coney Island

We wanted to make sure to touch on the Coney Island angle in the new Grand Theft Auto IV story. Maybe you read where any number of local officials are condemning the game that will be released this fall and its setting in a city that is very much like New York City. Says Council Member Peter Vallone, who can always be counted on to opine on such matters, "Setting Grand Theft Auto in the safest big city in America would be like setting Halo in Disneyland." In any case, the trailer for the game shows a Cyclone-like structure in Coney Island, and a reader sent us the screen cap above showing the Wonder Wheel. He writes, "They aren't the first game to do this, there is the warriors video game that has the game menu as the cyclone."