The places that inspire games

[TG1]

Just a small thing I wanted to share about the relationship between video games and the real world.

Since I live in Israel one of the things I liked about Assasin's creed is that I know most of the places in the game. a few days after finishing it I drove to a wedding in Jerusalem and while standing in traffic I could imagine Al'tair riding his horse on the same roads (without all these annoying cars of course). Last weekend I went with my family to the northern part of the country and we visited Acre on Saturday, I was really tempted to try and climb one of the mosque towers and then do an eagle dive, sadly there were no hay stacks in the area .
If anyone is interested, I'm adding a link to the photos taken by my brother (who is very talented, in my somewhat biased opinion) this Saturday and also during a visit in January. enjoy

http://www.pbase.com/avshig/akko&page=all

(Oh, and if anyone is conserned about the kids jumping to the waters from the walls, they all climbed back the walls safe and sound )

[Adrir]

Originally Posted by TG1

Oh, and if anyone is conserned about the kids jumping to the waters from the walls, they all climbed back the walls safe and sound

Tombstoning for the lose! So many kids get killed in Plymouth (where I used to live) doing that.

[myfourtwofour]

Great photos! Also if you´re interested in the realationship about reality vs virtual technology you should check out Baudrillard (quite a taxing read but really interesting) and/ join second life!!

[Doe11]

I am already using Pbase. This is a great website.