We have seen several examples of YouTube channels and users that have shown comparisons of video game maps, mainly for the purpose of discovering how big they are. At this point in the industry we are already talking about square kilometers that sometimes seem immeasurable.
That is why the web How big is the map? has been responsible for collecting information about how long would it take us to go through the scenarios of our favorite titles. Obviously, we are talking about using the main character, so the method can be on foot, running, swimming or even swinging in Marvel’s Spider-Man.
A simple, but effective exercise to measure distances is to compare various installments of a saga. For example, driving through Liberty City in GTA III took 3:30 minutes of attention behind the wheel, in GTA Vice City the time amounts to 5:44 minutes and in GTA San Andreas we go down to 8:43 minutes. In Niko Bellic’s adventure we returned to the recreation of New York and driving from one end to another took 9:29 minutes and with GTA V we have to spend 17:45 minutes driving slowly and 8:11 minutes if we step on the accelerator.
One of the video games with the most extensive mapping is Microsoft Flight Simulator with around 510,000,000 square kilometers. Making the Journey from the North Pole to Antarctica, we will be forced to drive for 39 hours in a straight line to reach our destination. As you can see, the web has a search engine that allows us to easily filter which game we want to consult together with the corresponding video with the journey.
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