If it's one thing I don't often see in games, it's ornate buildings built on the typical neoclassical design, derived from Greek Corinthian architecture. The Modern world owes a lot to the Ancient Greeks since we've all been basically copying their style for centuries since, from Ancient Rome to present!
Anyway, since I looked at the making of CS_museum following the CSGO thread and the references I could see how the Neoclassical style of the museum was born. It hit me that it's not very often you see ornate buildings in games and when it's done some of the detail is lost (presumably to cut down time?). I thought to myself that since COD games were set in Europe in WWII, there must be some ornate buildings in the games and then I remembered the Reichstag in the first game;
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From there I realised that World At War also featured the building:
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I've never played MW3 other than watching videos of it but I do know that the New York Stock Exchange is there and it's actually a decent effort although the figures look funny in comparison to real life;
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Also since Metro 2033 is set in post apocalyptic Moscow, there's some buildings in neoclassical style like the kalinin museum (orange pillared building on the right);
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Now there must be more examples of neoclassical buildings in videogames that I've not seen, does anyone else have any examples? I personally think we should see more ornate buildings in videogames!
