Miami Nights: Singles in the City

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Miami Nights: Singles in the City
Miami Nights - Singles in the City Coverart.png
Cover art for the Nintendo DS
Developer(s) Gameloft Bucharest
Publisher(s) DS:
Ubisoft
J2ME, BlackBerry:
Gameloft
Director(s) Stanislas Dewavrin
Producer(s) Manuel Figeac
Designer(s) Matthieu Gosnet
Stefan Dan Foaie
Programmer(s) Emil Dobre
Victor Bernot
Carlos Morales
Artist(s) Arthur Hugot
Christophe Latour
SeriesNights Series
Platform(s) J2ME, Nintendo DS, BlackBerry
Release
November 1, 2006
  • Mobile
    • EU: November 1, 2006
    Nintendo DS
    • NA: January 15, 2008
    • PAL: February 15, 2008
    BlackBerry
    • WW: May 13, 2009
    2: The City Is Yours
    • WW: August 5, 2009
    Life in the Spotlight
    • NA: December 14, 2009
    • EU: January 1, 2010
    • JP: May 12, 2010
Genre(s) Dating simulator
Mode(s) Single-player, multiplayer

Miami Nights: Singles in the City is a dating simulation game for the J2ME Platform, Nintendo DS and BlackBerry. It is based on the successful Gameloft Nights franchise for mobile phones which has generated more than 4 million downloads.[ citation needed ]. The game is similar to New York Nights: Success in the City which is also a part of Gameloft's Nights series.

Contents

The American cover art depicts a woman wearing a dress, whereas the European/J2ME/BlackBerry cover art depicts the same woman in a bikini. There have been complaints about the game being slow after the language selection and taking a long time to load.

Other Miami Nights games include Miami Nights: Life in the Spotlight for DSiWare (released on December 14, 2009 in North America, and in 2010 internationally). [1] and Miami Nights 2: The City is Yours, released on August 5, 2009 for BlackBerry.

Sequel

The game had a sequel for the DSi & BlackBerry. For the DSi sequel, it is called Miami Nights: Life in the Spotlight, while for the BlackBerry sequel, it is called Miami Nights 2: The City is Yours. Both have the same title cover, they just differ in title.

Reception

The DS version of Singles in the City and its DSi sequel received "generally unfavorable reviews" according to the review aggregation website Metacritic. [2] [3]

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