Summary

• Kingdom Come: Deliverance offers a rare RPG set in medieval Czech Republic, deepening historical storytelling through Bohemian settings.
• Assassin's Creed: Freedom Cry takes players to Haiti, focusing on disrupting the slave trade with historical parallels to the Haitian revolution.
• Spec-Ops: The Line swaps generic desert locations for modern Abu Dhabi, offering sleek city battles within real-life landmarks.

Video games are capable of taking you to all kinds꧃ of fantastical locations. But sometimes, the settings that are the most entertaining are the ones that exis🍌t in our world. Among the many places where games and their plots are set, some get far less attention than they should.

These lesser-known locales have only been highlighted a handful of times but have been no less impressive than more popular picks like New York or Paris. Instead, these settings have been used👍 to deepen the conn🦋ection to the story, creating even more unforgettable experiences.

8 Kingdom♛ Come: Deliverance ꦛ

Bohemian Odyssey

It’s rare to find a game set in the medieval era, and even rarer for it to be an RPG. But that is exactly what 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Kingdom Come: Deliverance offers, giving ༺you the chance to leave your mark on hist🙈ory in whatever way you see fit. All of this takes place in the lands of Bohemia, which today exists as the Czech Republic.

Even though Kingdom Come is set in another era, several of its towns and s📖ettlements still exist today. Among these is the main character Henry’s hometown Skalitz, a quaint village with a lot of history bꦗehind it.

7 Assassin’s 🌃Creed: Freedom Cry

Not Quite A Tropical Vacation

The168澳洲幸运5开奖网: Assassin’s Creed franchise has taken players across the globe in its many entries, from 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Ancient Egypt to America in 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:the midst of the Revolution. Of these hဣistorical settings, one of the most unique—not just the series but gaming as a whole—is Freedom Cry’s Saint-Domingue🍸.

Located in modern-day Haiti, the player character Adéwalé devotes himself to disrupting the slave trade which had begun to take part there. Just as with other ga𓃲mes in the series, the game has historical parallels, sh💎owcasing aspects of the Haitian revolution.

6 Spec-Ops: The ꧅Line 𝓀

Blood In The Sand

Modern military shooters have a negative reputation for taking place in similar environments, most infamously desert locations in the Middle East.168澳洲幸运5开奖网: Spec-Ops: The Line puts 𝐆a unique spin on this, swapping out the gener🐠ic villages and dusty encampments for the sleek modern city of Abu Dhabi.

Thank🎶fully, the real-life location has avoided the deadly sandstorm scene in Spec Ops. The game also includes some variations of real-life icons including the Burj Khalifa, called the Seaside Tower in the game, offering a chance to fight inside the tallest manmade structure in the world.

5 ꦜ Deus Ex: Mankind Divid💮ed

A Glimpse At The Future

Europe has been home to many games over the years, but nations like Britain and France often receive the lion’s share of the attention. 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Deus Ex: Mankind Divided breaks from traditi☂on by cen🎶tering events around a futuristic Prague.

Even though Deus Ex takes place in the future, it’s far less pronounced than you might see in something like 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Cybperunk 2077’s Nig🌳ht City. Instead of jumping ahead, Prague found in Mankind Divided gives a glimpse into what the future of a few years could hold.

4 ☂Stalker: Call Of Pripyat ꦕ

For True Scavs Only

The Nuclear Exclusion Zone located in Chornobyl is one of the most dangerous places on the planet and is the primary subject of numerous pieces of media, both real and fictional. 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Stalker: Call Of Pripyat uses this wasteland. It adapts some of 🧸the real-life landmarks of the radioactive zone but has been altered for the game.

Call Of Pripyat’s attention to detail does an excellent job of establish🔯ing an atmosphere. The haunting visuals of a place once liℱveable and now infected with the inviable plague of radiation create an immediate sense of unease.

3 Fallout New Veg🍸as: Honest Hearts

Potential Paradise

The Fallout games have taken place all over America. With Fallouts 1 and 2 taking place on the West Coast and 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Fallouts 3 and 4 taking place on the East, it’s up to 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:New Vegas to give us a look at how nuclear war impacted the center of the nation. Sin City itself has seen its fair share of attention thanks to other franchises like T168澳洲幸运5开奖网:om Clancy’s Rainbow Six and 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Duke Nukem,ꦡ but one Fallout🌸 Expansion covers more unique ground.

Honest Hearts has you get involved in the affairs of Zion Canyon, or as it🔯’s known today, Zion National Park. Unlike the irradiated wastelands, the series is known for much of the natural life in Zion has surv🐬ived, which makes for a pleasant contrast.

2 ☂ Pathways Into Darkness 🧸

In The Shadows Of The Jungle

Before Bungie went on to create one of the most influential shooters of all time with Halo, they experimented with other styles of games. Released in 1993, Pathways Into D🗹arkness has you exploring an ancient temple ཧin the hopes of killing an ancient God before it wakes up and destroys the world.

The temple in question is nestled in the jungles of the Yucatan Penisula. Though it’s not based on any one temple in🏅 particular, Pathways Into Darkness does an excellent job of highlighting why this area should be used more often. The setting makes for a uniquely tense environment, and the remains of Spanish explorers as well as Nazis, show that there isn’t a limit to the number of stories that could take place here.

1 The Thing

It Came From Beneath The Ice

Ant🍨arctica exists as both one of the least habitable and least accessible places on planet Earth. It took humanity great effort to be capable of living there, even temporarily. This makes it the perfect setting for a horror title like The Thing.

The Thing is an adaptation of the film of the same name, taking place at a remote research station in Anta🎃rctica where an alien being is discovered. This creature can shift into🎶 all sorts of terrible forms that you must battle if you hope to survive. Even without the risk of being devoured by aliens, Antarctica is better suited to experiencing virtually rather than truly making the journey.