The franchise has pulled a similar trick with each successive location, using the setting asthemain driver for creating hype while slowly building a better game through a series of titles.
One of America's most beloved comedies, 1959's zany "Some Like It Hot, " starring Marilyn Monroe and drag-bedecked Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon, used the Hotel del Coronado as a mainlocation.
The Pierre, even though the lease stipulates that its name cannot be changed, offered history as well as a location near a main entrance to Central Park.