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** ''[[L.A. Noire]]'' does this for the LA of 1947.
* The ''[[Grand Theft Auto]]'' series, starting with ''San Andreas''. Many a player was surprised at the level of detail that went into the fictional versions of Los Angeles, San Francisco and Las Vegas. Likewise for ''GTA IV'' and NYC.
** Not to the same extent, but present in Vice City as well. More than just Miami Beach, you can see various familiar sites driving around the city of Miami itself.
* ''[[The World Ends With You]]'' contains a remarkably faithful recreation of Shibuya, barring the [[Rule of Cool|stylish yet impossible angles of skyscrapers]] and [[No Communities Were Harmed|the fact that none of the stores]] [[Bland-Name Product|are the brands they should be]].
* The tracks in ''Project Gotham Racing 2'' are so accurate that one Scottish gamer was able to identify a store he used to frequent on an Edinburgh track.
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* ''[[Fallout]] 3'' uses the Washington Metro area for its Capital Wasteland. Of course, the scenery is all blasted and post-apocalyptic, but there are several places where you can see what the Real Place Background would look like if it got blown up.
** ''[[Fallout: New Vegas]]'' is even better at this. Even the little ghost town you start the game in, Goodsprings, is a real-life location; the bar and general store are lifted straight from the real ones.
* ''[[Project Reality]]'' includes several real cities and locales among the map roster, such as several cities in Iraq and Lebanon.
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* ''Modern Warfare 2'' did this with various real life cities, most notably Washington, with running and gunning inside the White House, but in a less obvious but funnier case, there was a level of the campaign (and the Special Ops-mission "Homeland Security") made from an area with some [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XTOyxsnMl0s fast-food restaurants in Vancouver].
* ''[[Akiba's Trip]]'' includes accurate recreations of a large chunk of Akihabara, where the developer is based. The sequel even allows walking from one end to the other without opening the world map.
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