Video games take us to fantastic places across many different fictional worlds and times, but plenty of them are rooted right here in reality. This isn’t to say that those fictional destinations aren’t as great, but when a game shows you a place you can actually go, you can add it to your bucket list and start planning your next destination vacation.
Fallout 3 – Washington D.C.
At the top of the list in video game destinations is the Fallout series. There are five games in the main series, but the more recent ones: Fallout 3, Fallout New Vegas, and Fallout 4, hit more recognizable spots in the United States. Even without the context of having played Fallout 3, Washington DC is a tourist destination for everyone. You can compare photos of the haggard-looking Washington Monument or compare the futuristic technology built into the Jefferson Memorial as you tour through DC’s mall. Even so, the game faithfully recreates parts of Northern Virginia and Maryland as the surrounding area, like the Washington Naval Yard which houses one of the game’s largest hubs, Rivet City.
Fallout New Vegas – Las Vegas
Fallout New Vegas takes place in titular New Vegas and the surrounding Mojave Desert, rebuilding from the ruins of our current Las Vegas. While the actual elements of the Las Vegas strip are greatly diminished, New Vegas recreates the highway system surrounding the city and several locations such as Hoover Dam, Lake Mead, Goodsprings, Primm, and Nipton. Hoover Dam is the site of much of the game’s conflict, as is Lake Mead that fuels it, and you can easily make a trip to tour both locales to see one of the United States’ marvels of construction. The town of Nipton and Goodsprings are prominent in the early parts of the game and greatly resemble their real-world counterparts particularly well. Nipton is infamous for once having the most lottery sales in all of California, because it exists just across Nevada state lines, mirroring one of the story beats of Fallout New Vegas.
Fallout 4 – Boston
Fallout 4 is a goldmine for real-world locations mirroring the game, and they’re all conveniently close together, seeing as the game centers in Boston. Fallout 4 tends to repurpose Revolutionary War monuments and historical sites for plot points, including the famous Freedom Trail and the infamous Salem. Boston is ripe with other locations like Fort Independence, called The Castle in Fallout 4, and Fenway Park, which is the game’s primary hub as Diamond City. It would take you a whole week’s worth to hit all the things to do with kids in Boston that the game covers, not to mention everything else you’d find in the city.
Deus Ex: Human Revolution – Washington D.C.
In 2011 Eidos Montreal and Square Enix released Deus Ex: Human Revolution, a scifi game about people with high-tech prosthetics and other enhancements. The first area you come to in Human Revolution is Detroit, Michigan, the unofficial capital of “augmented” people. While the game heavily fictionalizes their locations, which include Montreal and a fictional district in Shanghai, they invoke very modern feel to all their destinations that can really entice a person to want to see them physically. Human Revolution received a sequel in 2016 called Mankind Divided, and heavily features Prague as its setting. Those with a penchant for international travel will find modern Prague just as exciting as the futuristic city portrayed by the game.
The Walking Dead – Savannah
While not exactly a game with the tone to inspire vacation, The Walking Dead series by Telltale Games hits a few locations in the southern United States as it tours around the zombie apocalypse for its protagonists. In the first season, you play as protagonist Lee as he guards a little girl named Clementine from the burgeoning zombie menace. The game ties neatly in with nods to characters that appear in the comic book and TV show, but also the series lands you directly in beautiful coastal Savannah, Georgia. Or, at least it would have been beautiful, had it not been for all the zombies. While the game meets an emotional climax in the town, players discover how its survivors have been coping and traverse its varying districts in a coastal city that’s very inviting to visitors; at least, visitors that are living.
Assassin’s Creed 3 – New York City
A series grounded heavily in historical locations is Assassin’s Creed. From the outset of the first game, the protagonist Altair journeys through Crusade-era Jerusalem and Damascus to bring justice to his enemies. However, the series truly begins to shine with later installments, such as Assassin’s Creed 2 and Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood, which both take place in Renaissance Italy, with the latter focusing nearly entirely in Rome. Ezio, the protagonist, leaps from buildings and dashes through streets that still exist today to enact his vengeance. Assassin’s Creed 3 touches on Revolutionary War-era America, showing you parts of Boston and New York City. Subsequent games continue the historical fiction, with Assassin’s Creed Syndicate occurring across Victorian England and showing historical sites of London and beyond. Forthcoming is Assassin’s Creed Origins, which plans on showing sites of ancient history—like the Great Pyramids’ construction.
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Games are a great way to introduce yourself to new places. With each one you can add to your list of dream destinations, and hopefully make them a reality. Take a trip to Venice and see the canals you leapt across in Assassin’s Creed 2, or tour the Mojave Desert to see the small town your courier crawled out of to save New Vegas. Video games are great, but take the chance to see the world for yourself.
Touchten - Startups (startup) gym mobile phone that Jakarta-based Touchten states has gained new funding from investors Prasetia Dwidharma.
The Startup will use the fresh funds to develop games that target players of the game (gamers) women.
“The Game is often regarded as a hobby guy-centric, but our world is changing.
Today, half of all cellular gamers are women, ” said CEO and Co-Founder of Touchten Roki Soeharyo, as quoted from TechInAsia, Thursday (10/10).
(Read: Minimal Investment, Market Share Developers Game Local Only 0.4%)
In a written statement the Company, investors know that companies must produce games that are innovative and of high quality, and do not imitate to be able to maintain market leadership in the segment of the gim cell phone.
Infielder Sydney Romero, who graduated from Oklahoma this spring with two NCAA championships, was among 30 softball players invited to try out for the U.S Olympic team that already has secured a spot at the Tokyo2020 Olympic Summer Games.
Romero and her older sister Sierra Romero had previously said they intended to represent Mexico.
Sierra Romero, the NCAA player of the year in 2016, has been sidelined since tearing her ACL in June.
Osterman 36 came out of retirement last October, hoping to get a chance to play for gold.
Softball will return to the Olympics for the first time since 2008 next summer but is not on the slate for Paris 2024 or beyond.
The United States Italy and Japan already have qualified for the six-team Tokyo Olympic 2020 field.
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ESPN, which had been planning to air an Apex Legends tournament as part of the X Games, decided to delay the program until after the X Games tie-in.
Meanwhile, Walmart, which had been the site of the El Paso shooting, decided to remove advertising for “violent video games” — despite, absurdly, continuing to sell the guns used in the shootings.
The latter illustrates the core issue facing the video game industry: It’s too cowardly to actually speak the truth about why it’s being targeted, thus Walmart (and ESPN, or its corporate parents Disney/ABC) felt like they would face absolutely zero consequences for scapegoating games.
The video game industry will continue to fail in the political arena as long as it is terrified to say the truth that it is deliberately being targeted by Republican politicians as a distraction for their failed gun policies and complicity in hate crimes.
Perhaps the most frustrating aspect of this whole story is how detached it is from reality.
There’s no evidence that violent media causes violent actions, let alone in games specifically.
