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Vladimir recently posted some pictures he took during a trip to NYC on the official forums, which show some of the real life areas used in the Illuminati starting area. These are pretty cool.
http://forums.thesecretworld.com/showthread.php?t=37096
This link has side-by-side picture comparisons:
http://forums.thesecretworld.com/showpost.php?p=1180463&postcount=28
Hell hath no fury like an MMORPG player scorned.
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Sweet link!
I agree, it's a really nice set of pictures.
Strbldsnch compiled a bunch of side-by-side comparison pictures from the ones Vladimir took, which are easier to see:
http://i.imgur.com/fDEyp.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/y10ss.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/qkqxs.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/iayDF.jpg
Using the real world as the gameworld does make this game more interesting to me.
Hell hath no fury like an MMORPG player scorned.
That's pretty epic. One of the many cool things about a game taking place in current time.
Wow, some of those you need to do a double take to see which is the real one
I have seen some of the pictures before, but not with the comparison pictures, some of them were just awesome
Same here. I was looking at the pictures and comparing them to in-game places from memory, but the side by side comparisons were pretty astonishing.
Hell hath no fury like an MMORPG player scorned.
Wow this is awesome.
I live nearby, and may end up spraying fun symbols / hands / eyes / agartha notes around this stuff:)
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I thought that entire website was made as part of the advertising campaign for the game.
Yes used as an information source for the quest as well I believe. Some of the pics in the galery are actually from In-game. Though the light-tower seems real though.
As mentioned above, the site you are linking to is actually made by Funcom. They did it so they have a place with information that doesn't change, so they can use it for their in-game investigation missions.