Friday 8 February 2008

Call Of Duty 4, Chernobyl in real life vs the 3D urban model

Picked up from the ever brilliant Digital Urban blog, one particularly chilling, yet technically very accurate, rendition of a 3D urban model worth highlighting is that of Chernobyl, featured in Call Of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, a first-person game developed by Infinity Ward and published by Activision.

The game is available for Windows, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 it features various real world locations, one of them being set in the aforementione tragic city where a very well-known nuclear accident took place in 1986...


The first movie showcases some real-world, recently-taken still images from Chernobyl with a fascinating story behind them, found at http://www.nextgenboards.com/vb/call-duty-4-discussion/8215-map-real-life.html.

The second movie is the full Chernobyl level itself in the game, the similarities are, somewhat disturbingly enough (the area is still a high-risk radiation spot, which is quarantined, even after 20-odd years) there for everybody to see. A great piece of in manual urban 3D modelling nonetheless and definitely a good incentive for myself to finally get convinced in investing in a copy of Call Of Duty!

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