The New Destination for Detroit's TV Car Commercials?

Will this video be enough to convince ailing General Motors to film future car commercials on Roosevelt Island? It is unlikely but the owner of this Charger RT had some fun on a bright Saturday morning showing off his wheels.

Direct YouTube link by CiscoNY718

GTA IV: Images from Colony Island nee Roosevelt Island

A week or so ago I ran a post regarding the fact that the new Grand Theft Auto IV game including sequences that take place on Roosevelt Island (nee Colony Island) and my desire to see what the virtual representation of our island looked like.

Well with a little digging I found on a site called Gamespy several screen-shots of “Colony Island” (images 37-41 if you visit the source website). I have created a slide show (see above) of the more recognizable Colony Island sites. It is not hard to see that these shots are indeed modeled after Roosevelt Island but as with all GTA locations the images take on a much darker and foreboding feel to them. It also appears that President Avenue is the Main Street equivalent in the game and as in reality Colony island is part of Manhattan Isle's counterpart Algonquin Island.

Thanks again to the “blah-blah-blahg” for pointing out what I was curious about in the first place.

In Liberty City Video Game is Roosevelt Isle Colony or Charge Island? One Has a Subway One Does Not

Apparently there is a hot Sony Playstation video game coming to market soon called Liberty City. Well today pictures of a detailed Liberty City Transport Authority map was made public. The map details two islands sitting in their equivalent of the East River.

[I later learned that the game is actually Grand Theft Auto IV.]

One island, Colony Island, has two subway lines crossing through it. The other, Charge Island, has no such mass transit option, from what I see, but for two bridges connecting it to Algonquin (the game’s Manhattan) and also to Broker (the games Queens / Brooklyn equivalent).

I’d like to think in this virtual world that Roosevelt Island is the one with the subway connection. If we take a step backwards and Charge Island is supposed to be Roosevelt Island I want to protest. It would be terrible if we get even less respect from the subway in the virtual world.

Can anybody answer this question?