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The game that copied Los Angeles street by street
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Why hire a dedicated level designer when you can just aggressively plagiarize urban planning? The developers utilized commercial satellite imagery and commercial street mapping data to generate an obsessively accurate, 1:1 scale layout of Los Angeles roads. Unfortunately, they quickly learned that actual city grids are incredibly boring and actively terrible for high-speed car chases.
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