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Not 1:1 recreations, but the Assasins Creed games scratch this itch. Im not a big video-gamer, but do love history, so usually buy them when the price drops down to a couple bucks just cause its neat to spend a couple hours walking around the historical recreations.

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AC really made my experience in Italy better —- I probably was more in awe of the buildings and paintings as I only interacted with them on the screen.

I did have the urge to climb up everything. Thankfully I didn’t try and then flip around and accidentally stab a passerby like I did hundreds of times in the game.

AC was sold in the Uffizi’s gift shop in Florence which was cool to see.

I know with Origins (the best of the games) they had an option to explore and not play the game.

Would love for someone to buy up the rights to use the engine and models for Assassin’s Creed and develop stories which are historically realistic.

Building upon this idea: UbiSoft could license a version of the engine stripped of its game features (e.g. combats & health, climbing of buildings) with the purpose of creating historical reconstructions. These would be open source projects supervised by historians; every single detail could be discussed and improved, and changes merged via pull requests. Maybe UbiSoft's interest in the deal would be the free usage of the generated contents in the next instalments of its game.

They already do this, it's called "Discovery Mode" and is specifically aimed at education. See this trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_yMDdQKfv70

It's also available as a stand-alone if you don't already own the game: https://store.ubi.com/upc/discovery-tour-by-assassin-s-creed...

Some of the areas in assassin's creed Odyssey are almost jaw-dropingly pretty.

Sure it's not the most inspiring game, but they nailed the setting and the gameplay loop is superb

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