Cities in Games
Cities in Games: Chernobyl in Call of Duty 4
Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare is a first-person game developed by Infinity Ward and published by Activision. Available for Windows, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 it features various real world locations, one of them being set in Chernobyl. The movie embedded below illustrates a series of photos taken from…
Gamescape: Create a City while Playing a Game
Gamescape is an interesting concept – the players in game movements are translated into 3d floorplans. As gameplay progresses levels are added and over time structures develop which in turn build into cityscapes that can subsequently be downloaded and imported into Google Earth. Is the sort of concept that does…
Prototype Game Preview – Modelling New York
Michael from Metromapper.org sent us in an interesting link to a movie detailing a new game entitled Prototype by Radical Entertainment. Of note is the 1:1 recreation of New York City with developers taking 22,000 photos to get it right, capturing the city as it was in 2007. The movie…
Automatic City Builder – Gamr7
The latest issue of EDGE (183) features an excellent article on Automatic City Building for games. Focused on Gamr7, it details their middleware aimed at enabling artists to quickly design and create detailed urban environments. The cities are grown based on the meaning of buildings according to activity. Cities are…
PGR 4 – Building the City Video
Back in August last year we took at look at Metropolis Street Racer under our Cities in Games series. Created by Bizarre Creations and renamed Project Gotham the game is now on version 4, released on the XBox 360. Project Gotham leads the way in digital city production and we…
Cities in Games – Midgar Final Fantasy
Normally our Cities in Games thread concentrates on real world cities. This post is a slight departure to that rule as the City of Midgar forms part of the Final Fantasy series. Final Fantasy developed as a role playing game in 1987 by Square Co., Ltd. for the Nintendo Entertainment…
Cities in Games – Utrecht's 'Blob' Downloadable Game
Continuing our series of Cities in Games we take a look at one of the most innovative uses of city models for drawing users into examining issues of Master Planning and City Development in a while. The 'Blob' is a downloadlable game integrated into the website of the City of…
Project Gotham Racing 4 – St Petersburg
The Project Gotham series of games has arguably led the way in the construction of digital cities on consoles. Take a look at our previous article on Metropolis Street Racer on the Sega Dreamcast for a look at how far the series has come. The movie above provides a glimpse…
Cities in Games – Spiderman 3 – New York
Games lead the way in terms of the visualisation of cityscape's and with Spiderman 3 being the first release of the series on the new generation of consoles the city visualisation is fasinating. Available on multiple platforms – Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, PC, Wii, PlayStation 2, Nintendo DS and Game…
Grand Theft Auto IV – New York Mayor's View of Digital Cities
The latest installment of the Grand Theft Auto series, which takes place in the fictional 'Liberty City', has upset the Mayor of New York with its striking resemblance to the real city. The trailer below provides a few glimpses of the city model: In a report in the New York…