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Best games about/set in Chicago?
- Thread starter Dranakin
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Watch Dogs 1 is set in Chicago. But my favourite one is a really old driving game called Midtown Madness.
Here's a Wiki link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Video_games_set_in_Chicago
Here's a Wiki link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Video_games_set_in_Chicago
It's set in Chicago, but they change so much about the area & terrain that it may as well be a fictional city.
WD1 or Midtown Madness? Midtown Madness came out in 1999 so they had to change the environment.
We don't have mountains, or islands. They couldn't even get the rights to the art in our public spaces and parks.
Canadian developers being (I assume) forced by publishers to do American cities for marketing reasons needs to end. Let the game take place in Montreal.
Yup. Because when I think Chicago, I think the Bean, the South Side and...the west suburbs? What?
Ubisoft couldn't even be bothered to put Wrigley in there. Much less any of the actual North Side.
Can you really fault them for that though, that sounds like a huge headache. The rest is valid, though.
As a Chicago native I call bullshit. It felt and looked totally wrong.
Don't forget the fact that the entire North Side was underwater. Y'know. The lake north of the loop. Lake Lincoln Park.
Oh they had Wrigley tho, it was just something different and it was on the west side 'island' LMAO.
They couldn't even do the south side right.
For reference for the people who haven't played:
WD's Chicago:
Actual chicago
They literally obliterated the north side and made islands out of the west and south side lmao
True story: I traded the game in after two days because I was just that disgusted by how bad their Chicago was. I wanted to hack the security system at an improv theatre and scare a bunch of comedians.
I wouldn't have been really that bothered if Ubisoft went GTA about it and just called it anything BUT Chicago. It would've been pretty clearly evident that they were heavily influenced by it same way Liberty City is or San Andreas.
But all of the promotional stuff leading up to WD was talking about how detailed and realistic THIS next gen Chicago was going to be.
It was horrible.
But all of the promotional stuff leading up to WD was talking about how detailed and realistic THIS next gen Chicago was going to be.
It was horrible.
If you aren't worried by inaccurate depictions of Chicago, there's plenty of great picks.
Lethal Enforcers is set entirely in Chicago. John Woo's Stranglehold shares locations between Hong Kong and Chicago. Rampage: Universal Tour lets you destroy the then Sears tower in one stage. Driver 2 starts off at a bar in Chicago. Crimson Skies mission "The Windy City" surrounds flying around a modified iteration of the city.
My Eyes On You isn't released yet. It looks interesting and explicitly mentions Chicago by name in its trailer.
Lethal Enforcers is set entirely in Chicago. John Woo's Stranglehold shares locations between Hong Kong and Chicago. Rampage: Universal Tour lets you destroy the then Sears tower in one stage. Driver 2 starts off at a bar in Chicago. Crimson Skies mission "The Windy City" surrounds flying around a modified iteration of the city.
My Eyes On You isn't released yet. It looks interesting and explicitly mentions Chicago by name in its trailer.
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There aren't any "authentic" explorable representations I know of, but two very great "British people without internet access imagine what Chicago might look like" portrayals of Chicago are:
Yea 20-year veteran of Chicago and I was really disappointed at WD1 depiction. Landmarks are not really great representations(licensing?) and the entire city layout was just so off that it was a headache to parse it out.
At the time PGR2 was kind of a neat glimpse at a somewhat accurate few downtown courses. My old apartment building was rendered in the game even! But it's a racing game on set tracks running in and around the loop.
MK9 had a nifty stage set in Chicago actually. Basically fighting on one of the river bridges downtown. Midway was once based in Chicago during the old MK era so it was a nice shoutout to have a stage obviously set there.
At the time PGR2 was kind of a neat glimpse at a somewhat accurate few downtown courses. My old apartment building was rendered in the game even! But it's a racing game on set tracks running in and around the loop.
MK9 had a nifty stage set in Chicago actually. Basically fighting on one of the river bridges downtown. Midway was once based in Chicago during the old MK era so it was a nice shoutout to have a stage obviously set there.