During sections of the game where the New York skyline is visible in the background, the
two towers of the World Trade Center are noticeably missing; the real towers were destroyed a year after the game was released. Harvey Smith has explained that due to texture memory limitations, the portion of the skyline with the twin towers exists in the game's data files but had to be left out of the final game, with the other half mirrored in place of it. According to Smith, during the game's development, the
developers justified the lack of the towers by stating that terrorists had destroyed the World Trade Center earlier in the game's storyline.
