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General => Video Game Bored => Topic started by: Bebpo on January 14, 2018, 11:04:44 PM

Title: Virtual Tourism - Available Locations
Post by: Bebpo on January 14, 2018, 11:04:44 PM
Been wanting to make this thread for a while, though it's more of a resetera kinda mass audience participation thread to fill out but I don't have an account there. Looking to make a list of all the virtual cities and locations that are available to explore through a $59.99 or less videogame purchase. Only listing real world locales (even if they are not super accurate and only loosely based on them like Infamous/Fallout), so Just Cause 2/3 "bunch of islands" as cool as they are is not listed, as is not the planet Mira from Xenoblade X. Here's what I can think of:

Not USA or Japan:
-Jerusalem - AC1
-Damascus - AC1
-Acre - AC1
-Tuscany - AC2
-Florence - AC2
-Rome - AC Brotherhood
-Constantinople - AC Revelations
-Paris - AC Unity
-France (German Occupied) - The Saboteur
-London - AC Syndicate

USA:
-New Orleans - Infamous 2
-Seattle - Infamous Second Son
-New York - Mafia I/II (early 2000s), GTAIV (modern), AC3 (1700s)
-Boston (1700s) - AC3, Fallout 3 (post-apocalypse)
-Los Angeles - GTAV, GTA San Andreas
-Las Vegas - GTA San Andreas, Fallout New Vegas (post-apocalypse)
-Chicago - Watchdogs
-San Francisco - Watchdogs 2
-Miami - GTA Vice City

Japan: (various Yakuza info may be incorrect because there are so many of them I can't keep track)
Tokyo (Kabukicho only) - Yakuza 1-6
Osaka - Yakuza 2/4/5/6?
Okinawa - Yakuza 3
Kyoto (edo period) - Yakuza Kenzan, Yakuza Isshin

Please add stuff you can think of!
Title: Re: Virtual Tourism - Available Locations
Post by: Great Rumbler on January 14, 2018, 11:28:11 PM
-Hong Kong: Sleeping Dogs
-Los Angeles (modern): Vampire the Masquerade Bloodlines
-Los Angeles (1940s): LA Noire
-Chernobyl/Exclusion Zone: STALKER series
-Tokyo (Akibahara): Akiba's Trip/Akiba's Beat
-Rural Japan: Shenmue
-Hong Kong: Shenmue 2
-Oxford: Gray Matter
Title: Re: Virtual Tourism - Available Locations
Post by: Bebpo on January 14, 2018, 11:47:16 PM
Quote from: Great Rumbler on January 14, 2018, 11:28:11 PM
-Hong Kong: Sleeping Dogs
-Los Angeles (modern): Vampire the Masquerade Bloodlines
-Los Angeles (1940s): LA Noire
-Chernobyl/Exclusion Zone: STALKER series
-Tokyo (Akibahara): Akiba's Trip/Akiba's Beat
-Rural Japan: Shenmue
-Hong Kong: Shenmue 2
-Oxford: Gray Matter

Thanks! When I have a some time I'll add in everything people add to the OP to have a master list.
Title: Re: Virtual Tourism - Available Locations
Post by: TEEEPO on January 14, 2018, 11:50:56 PM
Annandale, VA - Fallout 3
Title: Re: Virtual Tourism - Available Locations
Post by: thisismyusername on January 15, 2018, 01:10:54 AM
Tom Clancy's The Division: Brooklyn (for the intro), Manhattan.
Title: Re: Virtual Tourism - Available Locations
Post by: demi on January 15, 2018, 02:17:36 PM
Egypt (and some Roman thrown in) - AssCreed Origins

The game literally has a "virtual tourist" mode built in

https://news.ubisoft.com/article/assassins-creed-origins-discovery-tour-shows-different-side-ancient-egypt
Title: Re: Virtual Tourism - Available Locations
Post by: thisismyusername on January 15, 2018, 04:00:55 PM
I think the Arma or Operation Flashpoint islands are based on real islands? Though I think they take liberties with it so they're "based" but not exactly like the islands they ape from.
Title: Re: Virtual Tourism - Available Locations
Post by: CrazyDiamond on January 15, 2018, 09:04:34 PM
The only virtual tourism you need is cs_rio in Counter Strike 1.6
Title: Re: Virtual Tourism - Available Locations
Post by: Great Rumbler on January 15, 2018, 09:23:59 PM
-Hawaii (Oahu): Test Drive Unlimited
-Spain (Ibiza): Test Drive Unlimited 2
Title: Re: Virtual Tourism - Available Locations
Post by: Joe Molotov on January 16, 2018, 09:56:23 AM
The Earth - Geoguessr
Title: Re: Virtual Tourism - Available Locations
Post by: HardcoreRetro on January 16, 2018, 10:10:30 AM
The Getaway games had London.

Brothers in Arms Hell's Highway had decent Dutch countryside and cityscapes.

The Hitman games generally have settings that capture certain areas pretty well. I loved the Rotterdam levels in Contracts.
Title: Re: Virtual Tourism - Available Locations
Post by: tiesto on January 16, 2018, 11:09:34 AM
Quote from: Great Rumbler on January 15, 2018, 09:23:59 PM
-Hawaii (Oahu): Test Drive Unlimited
-Spain (Ibiza): Test Drive Unlimited 2

I remember actually considering getting that game bc it took place on eyebeefa :p
Title: Re: Virtual Tourism - Available Locations
Post by: thisismyusername on January 16, 2018, 11:30:36 AM
Quote from: Great Rumbler on January 15, 2018, 09:23:59 PM
-Hawaii (Oahu): Test Drive Unlimited
-Spain (Ibiza): Test Drive Unlimited 2

Australia: Forza Horizon 3
Title: Re: Virtual Tourism - Available Locations
Post by: Brehvolution on January 16, 2018, 11:35:46 AM
Civ IV: Earth
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Title: Re: Virtual Tourism - Available Locations
Post by: Skullfuckers Anonymous on January 16, 2018, 11:36:49 AM
Nintendo actually had this on WiiU.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Dx7nwOQSMY

Google Maps VR on Oculus is super cool for this stuff too.