The Crow: City of Angels

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The Crow: City of Angels
System(s): Sega Saturn
Publisher: Acclaim Entertainment
Developer: Gray Matter
Distributor: Scanbox Danmark (DK), Roadshow Interactive (AU)
Sound driver: SCSP/CD-DA (1 track)
Genre: Action
Number of players: 1-2
Release Date RRP Code JP 1997-04-25 ¥5,8005,800 T-8123G US 1997-03-12 $59.9559.95 T-8124H EU 1997-02-26 T-8124H-50 DE 1997 T-8124H-18 UK 1997-04-10 T-8124H-50 PL 1997 AU 199x
Non-Sega versions PlayStation Windows PC

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The Crow: City of Angels (ザ・クロウ) is a Sega Saturn third-person action game developed by Gray Matter and published by Acclaim Entertainment. Based on the titular 1996 film The Crow: City of Angels (in turn based on the 1989 comic book series The Crow), it was first released in Europe in February 1997, was brought to the United States and Japan in the following months, and was eventually released in Australia some time later.

Gameplay

City of Angels uses a similar control scheme to Alone in the Dark and its derivatives (popularised further by Resident Evil). While the game plays in three dimensions, the levels are constructed out of pre-rendered 2D images with fixed cameras. Moving to the edge of the screen can lead to a different pre-rendered portion of the stage with a different camera.

As The Crow, the player moves using a "tank" control scheme, in which and rotate the player around the Y-axis, and and move forwards and backwards, respectively. Unlike Resident Evil, the game is almost entirely based around fighting enemies in hand-to-hand combat - while projectile weapons do exist, ammo is scarce.

Production credits

Pressman Films

• Executive Producers: Edward R Pressman, Miles Mogulescu

Gray Matter Development Team

• Producers: Stefan Posthuma, Dan McBride
• Assistant Producer: Hugh Cruttenden
• Lead Programmer: Stefan Posthuma
• Programmers: Eric Randall, James Thomas, Tony Yiu, Gard Abrahamsen, Barabara Ott, Martin Bysh
• Rendering Technology: Colin Reed, Andi Smithers
• Art Director: Dave Duncan
• Lead Artist: Simon McGuire
• Environments: Vlad Bina, Lisa CarrHarris, David Carman
• Animation and Models: Mario Lerriera
• Interface Design: Mike Upton
• Texture Art: Stuart Ure, Mike D Agnillo
• Music and Sound Effects: Mark Kerr, Nelson Everhart
• Game Design: Abam Mock, Calvin Campbell, Stefan Posthuma, Martin Bysh
• Game Testing and Map Design: Mike Inglehart, Kwame Newman, Jeff
• Tools and Support: Alan Penford, Peter Worthing, JP Schelter, Michael Coons, Mike Ravner, Rajiv Patel, Todd Showalter, Gard Abrahamsen, Perry Robertson, Ahmed
• Video Editing and Processing: Ian McKenzie, Dennis Mohr

Acclaim Product Development

• Executive Producer: Billy Pidgeon
• Producer: Simon Gouldstone
• Interactive Director: Melianthe Kines
• Director Assistant: Francis M Esposito
• Licensing: Erin Maloney
• Marketing: Douglas Sherman, Tom Bass, Lori McCue, Tracy Lopez
• Acclaim Motion Capture: Larry Melley, Brian Windsor, Andy Acquilino, Phil Grunfelder, Danielle Popsidero, Cynthia Gruham, Kelly Holmes, Rich Nelson, Joe Gibbons, Nicole Scharff, Chuck Mongelli, Barbara Ribbe, Sharon Dougherty
• Stunts: Jeff Gibson, Brad Martin, Love Bricourt, Robert I Rivera, Joe Coghlin, Nicole Cardiello
• Voices: Curtis Davenport, Donna Pheister, Mr Neely, Chris Rudtke, Richard Ackermann
• Special Thanks: Mike Archer, Hal Turkiewicz, Kelly Coleman, Jim Dunn, Kathleen Bryne, Alex Delucia, Adam Ingberman

Acclaim Quality Assurance

• Supervisors: Carol Caracciolo, Tom Falzone, Harry Reimer, Gil Leong
• Qa Team: Jeff Rosa, Michael Mazziotto, Eugene Riouse, Mike Patterson, Jun Crabbock, Andre Abramowits, Mark Garone, James Daly, Brian Krieger, Rich Larocca, Brady Wickham, Alex Gestani, Nick Theodorakis, Edmund Kok, John Nicolaou, Leigh Busch, Jerry Tian, Richard Varney, John E Gonzales, Howard Perlman, Dan Wimpelberg, Greg McGovern, Andrew Fullaytor, Robert Coffey, Keith Robinson, Bethany Blewett, Brian Regan, JJ Mazziotto

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In-game credits (JP)

Magazine articles

Main article: The Crow: City of Angels/Magazine articles.

Promotional material

Print advert in Electronic Gaming Monthly (US) #91: "February 1997" (199x-xx-xx)
also published in:

• Electronic Gaming Monthly (US) #92: "March 1997" (1997-0x-xx)

Print advert in Sega Saturn Magazine (JP) #1997-09: "1997-09 (1997-03-28)" (1997-03-14)

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Publication Version Score Bravo ScreenFun (DE) 60 Edge (UK) PAL 20 Famitsu (JP) NTSC-J 50 GamePro (US) NTSC-U 43 GamesMaster (UK) PAL 15 Game Informer (US) NTSC-U 56 MAN!AC (DE) PAL 60 Mega Console (IT) PAL 80 Mega Fun (DE) PAL 72 Player One (FR) 60 Saturn Fan (JP) NTSC-J 50 Saturn Fan (JP) NTSC-J 54 Saturn Power (UK) PAL 29 Sega Magazin (DE) 70 Sega Saturn Magazine (UK) 67 Sega Saturn Magazine (JP) NTSC-J 43

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