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Originally posted by FutureVenturer:
I highly doubt, no matter what anyone says, that developers would be so intrigued in bringing together a whole entire area that is 100% accurate.

Yes, I was kind of hard on him and I'm sorry for that. It's not that I believe he's wrong. It's just that he's too close-minded. Of course, we're allowed to think anything we want, but sometimes it may get to look repetitive. I think that I'll ignore any posts, for now on, if I see that they're not something that is realistic. I will, however, say this: World War II Online, a PC game, did offer a ton of miles, even more than any other games so far. It has perhaps over 300,000 sq miles, covering a lot of the lands from the western most countries of Europe. It's a FPS game. But despite it having this many miles, I doubt that the developer made everything accurate. When making a video game world, the purpose should not be to make it as accurate as possible, but to have it revolve around the idea or self-expression which the developer has. If it strays too much from it, there's a chance that it'll do more bad for the developer than good.

When I look at Test Drive Unlimited, I believe that it's purpose was to take racing to more roads than games in the past. And while 1,000 miles seems like the experience may never die, it does lack in its own ideas, at some point. A game that truly suits a lot of miles is if it'll be an RPG or MMOG. If there aren't many players that the game will support, then it seems useless. And if a game's world can't feel immersive enough, what would the point be of including so many miles? I'll leave it at that for you guys to respond to. Other than that, I won't go on with this particular topic.