The Best Real World Locations Recreated in Video Games

[Yevrah]

What are they?

[Disco]

Chernobyl in Stalker, end of.

[Shindig]

Gateshead in Driver.

[Danny]

Chernobyl in Stalker, end of.

Was decent in COD 4 too.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZkiPuy52tw

[Yevrah]

That single player campaign in CoD4 was so fucking good.

[Danny]

:nod:

Was my first real COD but I feel like its been downhill since

[Yevrah]

I think Alan Shearer (or his mate) described the subsequent games as 'formulaic mince', which was pretty bang on.

[Danny]

Pretty bang on to be fair.

[Ian]

That single player campaign in CoD4 was so fucking good.

"All Ghillied-Up." :drool:

[Danny]

Is that not the Pripyat mission?

[Yevrah]

The bit that swung it for me was in Durka Durka land when the nuke went off. :drool:

[Disco]

It's the only COD I've ever played. Opening mission on the boat and Death From Above stand out for me.

[ItalAussie]

I don't know if it's the best, but I had hours of fun on Liberty Island:

http://media.moddb.com/images/mods/1/10/9009/NV_3.jpg

[phonics]

Speaking of COD. The Stalingrad mission in Call of Duty 2 was the tits. At first you start off with no gun and you have to nick one off a body, and if you run backwards at any time your own mates shoot you for deserting :cool:

[Benny]

Whatever Medal of Honour game that had the Omaha Beach opening was pretty good too.

[Disco]

The first one, Allied Assault.

Not the opening mission either, there was a mission in North Africa first. What a game that was.

[phonics]

Some of Spec Ops landscapes were phenomenal. The game would change the intro screen as you got further into the game and they were nearly all great.

This one being a favourite, it's a phone picture taken off a TV so it's lost something but you get it.

http://i.ytimg.com/vi/1bas_vq7Lu4/maxresdefault.jpg
http://www.justpushstart.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/Spec-Ops-The-Line-10.jpg
http://www.shamusyoung.com/twentysidedtale/images/specops1.jpg

[Benny]

Battlefield 3's Paris Metro map was quite good.

http://www.geeky-gadgets.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/Battlefield-3-Beta.jpg

[Disco]

I always got thoroughly lost once I got inside on that map.

[phonics]

I always got thoroughly lost once I got inside on that map.

Thats my experience with any Battlefield map.

[Disco]

Thats my experience with any map.

This would be closer to my gaming experience.

[phonics]

My gaming life is just trying to run up/over cliffs to get there slightly faster. It's why I gave up on The Witcher/Dragon Age, I think. I just walked up Cliffs until I couldn't and then walked round adding frustration as well as boredom.

[Benny]

I always got thoroughly lost once I got inside on that map.

Sneaking round behind the enemy was such an easy way to rack up the kills, along with hiding in the pockets by doorways. I used to love that map.

[five time]

https://youtu.be/l14B3e9LHnk

Best CoD mission for me. The voice acting/atmosphere in that game was seriously good, I've been waiting for a return to WW2 games ever since.

[Benny]

There's scope for someone to really nail a new WW2 shooter, seeing as the market was done to death in the early CoD games. Graphics these days would be immense, I wish they'd redo BF1942.

[Weaver]

London in The Getaway: Black Monday was half decent, IIRC, although that must've been 2005-ish.

Bombing around London in a 2002 Corsa :cool:

[Benny]

Oh, how we could forget...

http://playtime.blog.lemonde.fr/files/2009/11/assassin-s-creed-2.1259317859.thumbnail.jpg

[Disco]

Is there anywhere that actually bears any real relation to it's real world counterpart? Barring style/architecture and a landmark or two I can't think of any.

[phonics]

Those ARG games based on you driving places and stuff at best.

[Disco]

Racing games in general I suppose, at least those that recreate existing circuits.

[Luca]

Is there anywhere that actually bears any real relation to it's real world counterpart? Barring style/architecture and a landmark or two I can't think of any.

GTA V did a cracking job (http://www.gtaist.com/grand-theft-auto-in-real-life/).

[Shindig]

They did LA alright in LA Noire.

[Gray Fox]

There's scope for someone to really nail a new WW2 shooter, seeing as the market was done to death in the early CoD games. Graphics these days would be immense, I wish they'd redo BF1942.

This was on my mind before Black Ops 3 was announced. The last WW2 game to my mind was World at War, which was released 6 years ago now.

I'd love to see someone take another go at it. This modern/slightly advanced warfare is starting to wear thin.

[Ian]

And then after WW2 maybe somebody could have a bit of a bash at the zombie games thing, it's probably time.

[Yevrah]

Oh, how we could forget...

http://playtime.blog.lemonde.fr/files/2009/11/assassin-s-creed-2.1259317859.thumbnail.jpg

Is that the Arse Creed based in Italy?

[Ian]

It is, and it's a great shout. Dunno if any of them are especially accurate but I loved Venice in whichever Ezio one it is. Rome had some great stuff too but there were too many bits I felt were just there to give me somewhere to run through between landmarks.

[Yevrah]

Doesn't Rome and/or the Vatican appear in two Arse Creed games? One for a tiny bit and then again for a lot longer.

[Ian]

Rome is one of the main settings in.... I want to say Brotherhood but that might be wrong. And then there's an extended bit in the Vatican. I also liked Istanbul in Revelations.

[Shindig]

You kill the Pope in either 2 or Brotherhood.

[wullie]

LA Noire's Los Angeles is remarkably accurate (http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2012-10-09-night-and-the-city) in places, which made it more of a shame that it was largely window dressing for a game that barely used the space.