[Xantar]

Fun fact: a videogame may be set in a real location, but it cannot depict the destruction of any such location without permission from the owners. So for example, the Chrysler Building is there but you can't blow it up or anything. You can't even put bullet holes on its face.

So New York should actually feel pretty good because although GTA depicts a thinly veiled version of the city, it's going to be absolutely pristine.