Have you ever imagined to explore a video game city, and feel like walking inside it as if it was the real thing? Now, thanks to Oculus Rift, this dream could become reality. There are lots of cities full of enchantment and wonder in gaming history, and now we wanna share with all of you our first five choices.
5) Rivet City (Fallout 3)
It takes ย a long walk to reach Rivet City while playing Fallout 3. This giant ship is a true floating city built on anย aircraft carrier docked at Washington Naval Yard. It’s the most technologically advanced built up area in the wholeย Wasted Land, organized like a proper city with museums, hospitals, laboratory, shopping areas and personal houses.
Its skyline is definitely different from the real one: Washington D.C. has never been so decadent and it would be wonderful to explore it with the Oculus Rift.
4) Dunwall (Dishonored)
We all know what the design of a steam punk setting looks like, but we didn’t know what anย oil punkย settingย was before Arkane Studio showed us the city of Dunwall. Dishonored is a very beautiful game that mix stealth mechanics and adventure gameplay but, to speak the truth, the most impressive thing in the game was the city of Dunwall itself. The dark smoke that result from oil combustion is one of the main characteristics, shrouded in the brilliant light of the wealthy district: a sort of sci-fi Victorian age city. I can’t wait to be there thanks to the Rift.
3) Midgar (Final Fantasy VII)
If we speak about steam punk we cannot forget to mention Midgar, the capital of Gaia, Final Fantasy VII fictional world and main power base for the evil Electric Company Shinra. Midgar is one of the few cities of Gaia that is totally independent and its structure is organized in two levels: at the base we can find eight reactors that lift up the city from the ground, and on the top lies the proper city. In the end the Shinra tower, with his strange shape, dominates Midgar from the top.
There are lots of Final Fantasy cities that deserve to be in this list butย Midgar, for sure, is the one I’d like to explore in a virtual reality environment.
2) Silent Hill (Silent Hill)
Silent Hill is the creepiest city of all videogame history, no doubt. It is so important in the economy of Silent Hill’s game that everybody knows Silent Hill is the true main character of the saga. Not Henry, not James, not Heather but the eerie fog-shrouded city we all learned to love. Now, let the imagination flow. Given how creepy is to explore this city on a simple screen, with a joypad in our hand, what about walking along the misty streets of Silent Hill in an immersive virtual reality? It would blow up my mind!
1) Rapture (Bioshock)
And finally here we are, the most impressive city of gaming, the new Atlantis according to Ken Levine vivid imagination: Rapture. Just few months ago Bioshock Infinite shocked all the players with the skies of Columbia, but nothing is like the deepest sea of Rapture.
There’s no other location that can instill the same sense of wonder, with all the lights and all the buildings of this underwater city. ย A paradise for scientists and gamers with Oculus Rift!
This is Oculus Rift Italiaย 5 favorite gaming cities to explore with Oculus Rift, what’s yours?