I like learning little bits about places I won't get to see in real life. In Assassin's Creed you can access historical information about the locations you're visiting. I've always wanted games to follow Ubisoft's approach to cities. The in-game phone has a Scout app that encourages you to tour the city's landmarks, which is a really nice touch that encourages players to see the city as a storied, lived in place, rather than just a chaotic play space. Ubisoft's interpretation of San Francisco is luminous and extremely fun to drive around, not least because you get to live the Bullitt fantasy of careering down those steep hills. My memories of San Francisco mostly consist of sunshine and good sandwiches-our sandwiches are crap in comparison. Samuel Roberts San Francisco, Watch Dogs 2 I'd love to see it revisited in GTA Online or a new singleplayer game at some point. From Star Junction, its version of Times Square, to the light coming through the train tracks on the streets of Broker, it's still an emotionally stirring place to explore. The over-the-top golden skies of Rockstar's love letter to New York are completely unrealistic, but they add this mythical feel to a playable space that was unprecedented in detail at the time. Los Santos is a much bigger and undeniably more impressive location, but the now decade-old Liberty City is still my favourite open world city in any game. Tom Senior Liberty City, Grand Theft Auto 4 A cracking bit of virtual tourism with the bonus ability to shoot nanobees at bandits. The soft storms of the Division 2 make DC's wide avenues even more beautiful. As in real life, the White House is smaller than you expect, and the Capitol Building seems huge.
The layout of the city has to be changed to fit the mechanics (cover everywhere!), but there are sudden moments of powerful recognition as you have a tense gunfight in the National Air and Space museum. It's odd to walk around a virtual city you've also visited in real life. Sometimes the shooting and driving feels secondary to the experience of wandering the streets, soaking up the atmosphere. It's not just about getting all the landmarks in, the best cities use light, weather and sound to create a distinct mood.
These games capture something special about the places they model. We're lucky enough to have visited a lot of the cities on the list, and it's always a surreal experience to compare reality to a virtual interpretation. Happy July 4 to all our friends in the USA! Today the UK team loosely tries to join in with a story about the Independence Day game that time forgot, and this celebration of the best US cities in PC gaming.
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