Video games that make you want to travel
by Maguinic | created - 03 Oct 2018 | updated - 1 month ago | PublicHere is a list of video games based on real locations (shown in a realistic way in these video games) that make you want to travel and visit these places in real life.
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1. Assassin's Creed (2007 Video Game)
M | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
A man enters a machine called the Animus that lets him relive the memories of his ancestor, a 12th century assassin named Altair.
Stars: Kristen Bell, Philip Shahbaz, Nolan North, Phil Proctor
Votes: 20,273
- Syria (Damascus, Masyaf)
- Israel (Jerusalem, Acre)
2. Assassin's Creed II (2009 Video Game)
M | Action, Adventure, History
Desmond Miles is trained to become a modern-day Assassin through the resurrected memories of ancestor Ezio Auditore da Firenze, who uncovers a massive Templar conspiracy in Renaissance Italy leading to the new Pope.
Directors: Sylvain Bernard, Shea Wageman | Stars: Roger Craig Smith, Kristen Bell, Nolan North, Fred Tatasciore
Votes: 25,781
- Italy (Venice, Florence, Forli and a bit of Tuscan countryside)
3. Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood (2010 Video Game)
M | Action, Adventure, History
Desmond Miles continues to travel the memories of Ezio Auditore, bringing him to turn-of-the-century Rome with Ezio rebuilding the assassin order to bring down the tyrannical Borgia rule.
Director: Sylvain Bernard | Stars: Roger Craig Smith, Kristen Bell, Nolan North, Fred Tatasciore
Votes: 17,349
- Italy (Rome, Vatican City)
4. Assassin's Creed: Revelations (2011 Video Game)
M | Action, Adventure, History
Ezio travels to Constantinople, at the peak of the Ottoman Empire to discover the truth behind his Ancestor, Altair, which will help him retrieve a powerful weapon hidden within Masyaf, the ancient assassins' fortress.
Director: Alexandre Amancio | Stars: Roger Craig Smith, Cas Anvar, Nolan North, John de Lancie
Votes: 14,507
- Turkey (Istanbul and Cappadocia region)
5. Assassin's Creed III (2012 Video Game)
M | Action, Adventure, History
The American Colonies, 1775. It's a time of civil unrest and political upheaval in the Americas. As a Native American fights to protect his land and his people, he will ignite the flames of a young nation's revolution.
Directors: François Daubet, Shea Wageman | Stars: Noah Watts, Neil Napier, Robin Atkin Downes, Adrian Hough
Votes: 18,646
- USA (Boston, New York City, and North East American countryside with the "Frontier")
6. Assassin's Creed III: Liberation (2012 Video Game)
M | Action, Adventure, History
In 18th century Louisiana, a female assassin named Aveline has to infiltrate the Templars' order and uncover and destroy their schemes.
Stars: Cas Anvar, Andreas Apergis, Shawn Baichoo, Alain Benatar
Votes: 1,544
- USA (New Orleans, Louisiana Bayou)
- Mexico (Chichen Itza)
7. Assassin's Creed: Rogue (2014 Video Game)
M | Action, Adventure, History
Bridging the gap between Assassin's Creed IV and III, as tragedy and failure force Shay Cormac to question his own Creed. The Assassin turns Templar and embarks on a quest of vengeance and personal revelation, during the Seven Years' War.
Director: Martin Capel | Stars: Steven Piovesan, Andreas Apergis, Lucinda Davis, Stéfanie Buxton
Votes: 5,106
- Portugal (Lisbon, but this city only appears very quickly in the game)
- USA (New York City, Albany, Sleepy Hollow, Mount Vernon)
- Canada (inland rivers in the Canada territories)
8. Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (2013 Video Game)
M | Action, Adventure, History
A video game where you play as sailor, privateer and assassin Edward Kenway exploring on and around the islands in the Caribbean Sea during the early 17th century.
Director: Ashraf Ismail | Stars: Adrian Schiller, Ralph Ineson, Kate Fleetwood, Sarah Greene
Votes: 19,654
- The Bahamas (Nassau)
- Jamaica (Kingston)
- Cuba (Havana)
- Haiti (Port-au-Prince, only in the DLC)
9. Assassin's Creed: Unity (2014 Video Game)
M | Action, Adventure, History
Paris, 1789. You play as Arno Victor-Dorian, an assassin during the French Revolution. As the nation tears itself apart, Arno will expose the true powers behind the Revolution.
Directors: Jesse Malcolm Sweet, Alexandre Amancio, Sylvain Bernard | Stars: Dan Jeannotte, Catherine Bérubé, Julian Casey, Anthony Lemke
Votes: 8,386
- France (Paris, Versailles, and Saint Denis in the DLC)
10. Assassin's Creed: Syndicate (2015 Video Game)
M | Action, Adventure, Crime
Set during the industrial revolution, play as twin assassins Jacob and Evie Frye who fight those who gain from the less privileged.
Directors: François Daubet, Scott Phillips, Ramiro Bélanger | Stars: Victoria Atkin, Paul Amos, Kris Holden-Ried, Sam Crane
Votes: 7,728
- United Kingdom (London)
11. Assassin's Creed: Origins (2017 Video Game)
M | Action, Adventure, Fantasy
A prequel to the Assassin's Creed Franchise set in Egypt from 48 BC where Bayek, a Medjay, begins the foundation of the Assassin's Brotherhood.
Directors: Ashraf Ismail, Laurent Bernier, Jean Guesdon | Stars: Abubakar Salim, Alix Wilton Regan, Zora Bishop, Michael Nardone
Votes: 10,229
- Egypt
12. Assassin's Creed: Odyssey (2018 Video Game)
M | Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Set in 431 BC during the Pelopenesian War, play as either a male or female mercenary as you embark on your own epic odyssey to become a legendary Spartan hero in a world where every choice matters.
Directors: Jonathan Dumont, Scott Phillips, Sophie Ann Rooney | Stars: Melissanthi Mahut, Michael Antonakos, Leonidas Castrounis, Maria Syrgiannis
Votes: 9,661
Greece
13. Assassin's Creed Mirage (2023 Video Game)
M | Action, Adventure, Fantasy
You are Basim, a cunning street thief in the ninth-century Baghdad that becomes a deadly Assassin through a mysterious organization known as the Hidden Ones.
Directors: François Daubet, Stephane Boudon, Richard M Dumont | Stars: Shohreh Aghdashloo, Jan Kamar, Lee Majdoub, Aline Aboujaoude
Votes: 1,245
- Iraq (Bagdad, Anbar)
- Iran (Alamut)
14. Watch Dogs (2014 Video Game)
M | Action, Crime, Drama
After losing his niece in an assassination attempt, Aiden Pierce, a street-smart vigilante, uses hacking apps on his phone to take over a new operating system in Chicago to hunt the criminals that killed his niece.
Directors: Jonathan Morin, Kun Chang | Stars: Noam Jenkins, R. Charles Wilkerson, Holly Uloth, Isabelle Blais
Votes: 9,904
- USA (Chicago)
15. Watch Dogs 2 (2016 Video Game)
M | Action, Adventure, Crime
In San Francisco, hacker Marcus Holloway joins DedSec, to take down a corrupt system by fighting and hacking his way through the entire San Francisco Bay.
Directors: Danny Bélanger, Jonathan Morin | Stars: Ruffin Prentiss, Shawn Baichoo, Tasya Teles, Jonathan Dubsky
Votes: 4,908
- USA (San Francisco)
16. Sleeping Dogs (2012 Video Game)
M | Action, Crime, Drama
Asian-American cop Wei Shen goes undercover in Hong Kong to infiltrate a Triad organization. However, he is soon torn between his duty as a police officer and the organization he helped rise through the ranks.
Directors: Justin Bullard, Sean Horne, Blade Zavier | Stars: Will Yun Lee, Edison Chen, Kelly Hu, Robin Shou
Votes: 7,734
- Hong Kong
17. L.A. Noire (2011 Video Game)
M | Action, Crime, Drama
Cole Phelps, a war hero and rookie cop, moves up the ranks and solves dark cases in 1940s Los Angeles.
Director: Brendan McNamara | Stars: Aaron Staton, Michael McGrady, Adam J. Harrington, Sean McGowan
Votes: 16,610
- USA (Los Angeles)
18. Red Dead Redemption (2010 Video Game)
M | Action, Adventure, Crime
A former outlaw is forced by the federal government to hunt down the members of his old gang.
Stars: Rob Wiethoff, Josh Blaylock, Sophia Marzocchi, Spider Madison
Votes: 30,428
- USA and Mexico (but the locations are fictionalized in the game)
19. Mafia: Definitive Edition (2020 Video Game)
M | Action, Crime, Drama
The game follows Thomas Angelo where his life as a hard-working taxi driver is forever changed after a fateful run-in with the Italian Mafia.
Director: Alex Cox | Stars: Andrew Bongiorno, Glenn Taranto, Steven J. Oliver, Don DiPetta
Votes: 4,148
USA (with the fictionnal city of "Lost Heaven", based on Chicago)
20. Mafia II (2010 Video Game)
M | Action, Crime, Drama
The chronicles of Vito Scalletta, a young Italian immigrant who joins the Italian mafia, but soon gets in over his head when illegal drug dealing and deception take place.
Stars: Rick Pasqualone, Robert Costanzo, Ray Iannicelli, Roger Rose
Votes: 11,657
- Italy (Sicily, but quickly crossed in the game)
- USA (with the fictionnal city of "Empire Bay", based on New York City)
21. The Saboteur (2009 Video Game)
M | Action, Adventure, Thriller
Sean, an Irish racing driver, must help out the French resistance during WWII. The death of his friend Jules, gives him the reason to risk his life.
Director: Trey Watkins | Stars: Robin Atkin Downes, Karen Strassman, André Sogliuzzo, Kari Wahlgren
Votes: 1,263
- France (Paris and other french regions)
22. Yakuza 0 (2015 Video Game)
M | Action, Crime, Drama
Kiryu and Majima, both Yakuza's who are in different cities in Japan in 1988, as the fate of the two characters become intertwined in a gritty, violent, and often touching narrative.
Directors: Kazuki Hosokawa, Toshihiro Nagoshi | Stars: Takaya Kuroda, Hidenari Ugaki, Kazuhiro Nakaya, Miyuki Sawashiro
Votes: 2,077
- Japan (Tokyo, with the Kabukicho district renamed "Kamurocho" in the game, and Osaka with the Dotonbori district renamed "Sotenbori" in the game)
23. Yakuza Kiwami (2016 Video Game)
M | Action, Crime, Drama
Kazuma Kiryu is demoted from his clan after taking the blame for his boss's murder. After a decade in prison, Kiryu sets out in search for his old friends who have gone missing.
Directors: Hiroyuki Sakamoto, Koji Yoshida, Toshihiro Nagoshi | Stars: Takaya Kuroda, Rie Kugimiya, Kazuhiro Nakaya, Maaya Sakamoto
Votes: 1,232
- Japan (Tokyo, with the Kabukicho district renamed "Kamurocho" in the game)
24. Ghost of Tsushima (2020 Video Game)
M | Action, Adventure, Drama
Set in 1274 on the Tsushima Island, the last samurai, Jin Sakai, must master a new fighting style, the way of the Ghost, to defeat the Mongol forces and fight for the freedom and independence of Japan.
Director: Nate Fox | Stars: Daisuke Tsuji, Eric Steinberg, Sumalee Montano, Patrick Gallagher
Votes: 14,997
- Japan (Tsushima Island)
25. Ryse: Son of Rome (2013 Video Game)
M | Action, Adventure, History
It follows a fearless Roman soldier named Marius Titus who joins the army to avenge the slaying of his family and emerges as a hero who must fight to save the Roman Empire.
Directors: Cevat Yerli, Peter Gornstein | Stars: John Hopkins, Richard Teverson, Jamie Ballard, Rachel McDowall
Votes: 1,976
- Italy (Rome)
- United Kingdom (English countryside, York, Scotland)
26. A Plague Tale: Innocence (2019 Video Game)
M | Adventure, Drama, History
14th century France, Amicia and her little brother Hugo are on the run from the Inquisition's soldiers and survive during their emotional journey unstoppable swarms of rats from the Black Plague.
Directors: Kevin Choteau, David Dedeine | Stars: Charlotte McBurney, Logan Hannan, Edan Hayhurst, Tabitha Rubens
Votes: 4,868
- France (Guyenne province)
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