There's a lack of finer detail, and I'm still several hundred feet in the air, but the streets, layout, building and the general town are enough to trigger many childhood memories. And it looks like my home, or at least the plot of land, the roof I've stood on, the corner I've played backyard cricket on. The country is too big, not populated enough, and typically not worth the time for a developer building a game like this on a transcontinental scale.Īnd yet, I can fly over and see my home.
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Both were sound, logical and excellent choices to make.Ī place like Shellharbour Airport, or the airports around the towns where I grew up - Camden Airport or Mittagong Airport (which I've never seen in real life, because who flies into Mittagong) - lives outside such budgets. Ghost of Tsushima spent that time and poly budget on the game's environments. The Last of Us 2, for instance, invested an insane amount of power and time into the game's models. Games have always given certain areas special treatment, models or points of focus where more developer time and budget is spent. It makes sense that one area, a major metropolitan city or a frequent transport hub would be accurately rendered. Just thinking about the possibility of that at scale in a game is staggering. All the landmarks of the airport are in place, and the surrounding geography, topology and general layout of the surrounding suburbs matches what I remembered, and what my partner and I drove through. Microsoft Flight Simulator's AI-generated recreation of the airport, built with a combination of Microsoft Azure cloud technology and data from Bing Maps, makes the area look like something out of North Queensland. To be clear, Shellharbour Airport definitely has some palm trees.
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This review has been updated for the Xbox Series S and X release of Flight Simulator, which is out now. "There's not as many palm trees," I noticed. There was just something calming about seeing home, even streamed through the combination of a video game and Bing Maps. We'd flown through and by it virtually only the night before, checking out her favourite spots and identifying the location of her parents through Microsoft Flight Simulator the night before. "Hey, it's Shellharbour Airport," she noted. On the way down, my partner pointed to something out of the window. A family member had passed away the whole week had been the sort you want to forget.
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I was down the South Coast with my partner recently for a funeral.