Roads in Video Games

[Rover_0]

Not too familiar with the game, but a Fallout add-on has a some (rather accurate) UT-9 signs in the Zion area:




Though the road isn't that dark red like it is through the park.

[vtk]

I'm 99% positive that the "ROAD CLOSED", "SPEED LIMIT" and "STOP" signs are all in the FHWA font.

I'm 99% sure all the signs with the correct font are just straight-up photos used as game textures.

[Bruce]

I was watching a playthrough of "The Last of Us" and I spotted shields for both I-83 and a Texas Farm-to-Market Road around 8:50.

[Zeffy]

I was watching a playthrough of "The Last of Us" and I spotted shields for both I-83 and a Texas Farm-to-Market Road around 8:50.

I've seen an I-70 overhead while watching a trailer for that game as well. They look really nice.

[doorknob60]

Today I saw the E3 trailer for The Crew: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D6aSa84OfFw

It looks like a really cool idea, it's like an open world, online (optionally) game that takes place throughout the entire US, with emphasis on a handful of cities like New York, LA, Miami, etc. Now, I'm sure you won't be able to just take any highway you want in the country, and it's certainly not to scale or anywhere close to it, but it seems like a really neat idea. I wish I could find the picture, but the actual map of the game they showed looked a little weird and unrealistic compared to where things actually are, but I'd hope they iron that stuff out before release.

[KEK Inc.]

From InFamous Second Son.  Interesting use of button-copy, even though the city limits is 10 miles North of here.

[Billy F 1988]

Obviously, US 10 runs through Seacrest in the Need for Speed series. Not sure which sequel this came from.

[Zeffy]

From InFamous Second Son.  Interesting use of button-copy, even though the city limits is 10 miles North of here.

Those look really nice. Pity I don't have any PlayStation past a PS2 and won't be buying a PS4.

[agentsteel53]

is it just me or is that... Clearview button copy?  that letter "S" in "Sea..." looks awful suspicious.

[vtk]

I don't think it's FHWA or Clearview, but some kind of humanist sans-serif that looks a little like both. 

What I'm wondering is, did they actually code a shader for the retroreflective buttons?  That would be an impressive example of attention to detail.  I've actually been meaning to suggest that to the POVRay community...

[ET21]

Obviously, US 10 runs through Seacrest in the Need for Speed series. Not sure which sequel this came from.

Hot Pursuit 2010. And it's a fictional US 10

[Kacie Jane]

From InFamous Second Son.  Interesting use of button-copy, even though the city limits is 10 miles North of here.

Also, there is indeed a neighborhood called "Uptown" in Seattle.  But it's just west of Seattle Center, so if for some reason you felt the need to sign it from I-5, Exit 167 itself would be the only one that makes sense.  (Maaaybe 166 for Denny Way, but even that might be a stretch.)

[Zeffy]

Here's some from Left 4 Dead 2. Some of the best ones I've seen in video games.

[PAHighways]

I was watching a playthrough of "The Last of Us" and I spotted shields for both I-83 and a Texas Farm-to-Market Road around 8:50.

I've seen an I-70 overhead while watching a trailer for that game as well. They look really nice.

Part of that game takes place in Pittsburgh.  Upon entering the city, the two main characters drive through what looks like a variation of the PA 885/Boulevard of the Allies and Liberty Bridge/Crosstown Boulevard interchange.



There is a scene where the characters have to make it to the Fort Duquesne Bridge.  Fortunately the developers put some Wayfinder System signs in the game, although they guide they have indicates I-7x (looks like I-74) and US 52.



Another guide sign pointing to the Fort Duquesne Bridge with what looks like an I-74 shield.

[Billy F 1988]

Here's some from Left 4 Dead 2. Some of the best ones I've seen in video games.

Does I-16 literally go into Atlanta in real life?

[Alps]

Does I-16 literally go into Atlanta in real life?

maps.google.com

[NE2]

Only in the figurative sense.

Apparently it's set in Savannah: http://left4dead.wikia.com/wiki/Liberty_Mall
The actual control city is Macon, but it could have been Atlanta.

[NE2]

Does I-66 literally go into Kentucky in real life?

maps.google.com

[Zeffy]

Not really a road sign, but this sign definitely has FHWA Series D typeface on this sign in a game called "Special Forces: Team X".

[DSS5]

Fallout: New Vegas' depiction of the interstate system isn't really accurate (at grade intersections all over the place) but there is the whole "alternate universe" deal.

Anyway, here's some screenshots

[formulanone]

Hmmm...never realized there's so many post-apocalyptic-themed video games out there.

[NE2]

Hmmm...never realized there's so many post-apocalyptic-zombiepunk-themed anything out there.

[Henry]

Part of that game takes place in Pittsburgh.  Upon entering the city, the two main characters drive through what looks like a variation of the PA 885/Boulevard of the Allies and Liberty Bridge/Crosstown Boulevard interchange.



There is a scene where the characters have to make it to the Fort Duquesne Bridge.  Fortunately the developers put some Wayfinder System signs in the game, although they guide they have indicates I-7x (looks like I-74) and US 52.



Another guide sign pointing to the Fort Duquesne Bridge with what looks like an I-74 shield.

One has to wonder why they Cincinnati couldn't have been used as a backdrop, because isn't that where I-74 ends? And there's no way they could extend it to Pittsburgh if they wanted to, especially with its eastern cousin now residing in the Carolinas. But at least the game acknowledged the fact that I-74 and US 52 share a concurrency in a few places (and US 52 doesn't go anywhere near Pittsburgh either!).

[agentsteel53]

One has to wonder why they Cincinnati couldn't have been used as a backdrop, because isn't that where I-74 ends? And there's no way they could extend it to Pittsburgh if they wanted to, especially with its eastern cousin now residing in the Carolinas. But at least the game acknowledged the fact that I-74 and US 52 share a concurrency in a few places (and US 52 doesn't go anywhere near Pittsburgh either!).

yeah, that would be a lot more sensible direction for route 74 to go, given its number and thus its implied place in the grid.

the US-22 corridor between Pittsburgh and Cincy would be the most logical place, but I don't think there's much need to improve that to interstate quality, or to slap a shield on it.  I-70/71 serve that corridor adequately.

[WichitaRoads]

Obviously, US 10 runs through Seacrest in the Need for Speed series. Not sure which sequel this came from.

Resisting urge.... cannot.. hold... back......... SEACREST... OUT!

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