{"id":87732,"date":"2017-06-15T11:56:55","date_gmt":"2017-06-15T09:56:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shbarcelona.com\/blog\/en\/?p=87732"},"modified":"2022-02-28T10:47:17","modified_gmt":"2022-02-28T09:47:17","slug":"video-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shbarcelona.com\/blog\/en\/video-games\/","title":{"rendered":"Video games set in Barcelona"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Video games<\/strong> are entertaining and even more so if you know the settings in which they take place. Thousands of <strong>video games<\/strong> have used a variety of settings in different cities of the world, including our dearest Barcelona. Here are some of the most popular ones.<\/p>\n<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_17 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-grey\">\n<div class=\"ez-toc-title-container\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<span class=\"ez-toc-title-toggle\"><\/span><\/div>\n<nav><ul class=\"ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1\"><li class=\"ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2\"><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.shbarcelona.com\/blog\/en\/video-games\/#Tony_Hawks_Underground_2\" title=\"Tony Hawk&#8217;s Underground 2\">Tony Hawk&#8217;s Underground 2<\/a><\/li><li class=\"ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2\"><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.shbarcelona.com\/blog\/en\/video-games\/#The_Wheelman\" title=\"The Wheelman\">The Wheelman<\/a><\/li><li class=\"ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2\"><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/www.shbarcelona.com\/blog\/en\/video-games\/#Assassins_Creed_II_Discovery\" title=\"Assassin&#8217;s Creed II: Discovery\">Assassin&#8217;s Creed II: Discovery<\/a><\/li><li class=\"ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2\"><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"https:\/\/www.shbarcelona.com\/blog\/en\/video-games\/#_GoldenEye_007\" title=\"\u00a0GoldenEye 007\">\u00a0GoldenEye 007<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Tony_Hawks_Underground_2\"><\/span>Tony Hawk&#8217;s Underground 2<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<div id=\"attachment_87736\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-87736\" class=\"wp-image-87736 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.shbarcelona.com\/blog\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/action-1853289_1920-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-87736\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo via Pixabay<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This installment of the legendary<strong> Tony Hawk<\/strong> skateboard series lands in <strong>Barcelona.<\/strong> The city is one of the playable areas and is depicted as a very miniature version of it. Some of the notable areas that one can recognize are the Port and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shbarcelona.com\/blog\/en\/tickets-park-guell\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Gaudi\u2019s Park Guell<\/a>. Barcelona as the playable area is a melting pot of Spanish culture. Amongst the activities that the protagonist has to do are tomato throwing (hinting at Bu\u00f1ol&#8217;s festival La Tomatina) and bull running. <strong>Tony Hawk\u2019s Underground 2<\/strong>\u00a0uses black humor to entertain the player and uses each setting&#8217;s cultural identity to enhance the gaming experience.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Trailer: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=v6bO4AvIrJQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Tony Hawk&#8217;s Underground 2 trailer<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Release date &amp; Platforms:<\/strong>\u00a02004<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>(PlayStation 2,\u00a0Xbox,\u00a0GameCube,\u00a0Microsoft Windows,\u00a0Game Boy Advance)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Related article:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.shbarcelona.com\/blog\/en\/room-escape\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Barcelona Room of Riddles: The great escape game<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"The_Wheelman\"><\/span>The Wheelman<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>The Wheelman<\/strong> is a story of an undercover cop (modeled and voiced by actor Vin Diesel) who infiltrates the Catalan crime network through a femme fatale called Lumi Vega. Your job as the protagonist is to make sure that the engine is running and that the cops only see your tail lights. That is achieved by breaking all the traffic laws and gunning down cars and people. The setting is the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.shbarcelona.com\/blog\/en\/calle-parlament\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> streets of Barcelona<\/a>, although it&#8217;s hard to choose your own path through the city and usually you end up following the path that the game creates for you. That doesn\u2019t diminish the fun though. If you are a person who has wondered what would it feel to drive at breakneck speeds through Raval or on the Ronda then this the game for you. High octane car chases and Hollywoodesque explosion scenes give <strong>Barcelona<\/strong> a new dimension, which you didn\u2019t know the usually crowded streets of the city could have.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Trailer: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=TxKpYUJQ8cI\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">The Wheelman trailer<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Release date &amp; Platforms:<\/strong> 2009 (PS2, XBOX360, PC)<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Assassins_Creed_II_Discovery\"><\/span>Assassin&#8217;s Creed II: Discovery<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The famous <strong>Assassin\u2019s Creed<\/strong> franchise follows the fantasy story of the Templars versus the Assassins through numerous protagonists. In <strong>Discovery,<\/strong> the player follows the story of Ezio, who takes it as his mission to restore the <strong>Assassins<\/strong> brotherhood in <strong>Spain<\/strong> and make sure the exploration mission of Christopher Columbus can embark as scheduled. The daunting task doesn\u2019t phase our protagonist who traverses the entire country to achieve what he set out to do. Due to the platforms that the game was made for, the graphics or grand vistas are not where the strengths of the game lay. It plays as a 2D platformer, but you still recognize the style of <strong>Barcelona<\/strong> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shbarcelona.com\/blog\/en\/architecture-3\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">architecture<\/a> of the late 15<sup>th<\/sup> century.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Trailer: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Sn-NSuN8oxI\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Assassin&#8217;s Creed: Discovery trailer<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Release date &amp; Platforms: <\/strong>2009 (Nintendo DS, iOS)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Related article:\u00a0<span class=\"removed_link\" title=\"https:\/\/www.shbarcelona.com\/blog\/en\/comic\/\">Where to find vintage comics in Barcelona<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"_GoldenEye_007\"><\/span>\u00a0GoldenEye 007<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<div id=\"attachment_87738\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-87738\" class=\"wp-image-87738 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.shbarcelona.com\/blog\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/game-2294201_1920-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-87738\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo via Pixabay<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Acclaimed as one of the most important video games in history, <strong>GoldenEye<\/strong> follows the trends set by the movies and the books. It is high paced and FPS orientated with stealth and puzzle elements included. In the game, the <strong>Barcelona<\/strong> mission takes place in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shbarcelona.com\/blog\/en\/olympic-port\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">nightclub<\/a> where Mr. Bond has to contact an informant and later fight his way out of trouble. The nightclub is pretty generic and is decorated with Picassoesque paintings and guards with strong Spanish accents. At the end of the mission, 007 leaves with style, on a bike, driving in the streets of <strong>Barcelona.<\/strong> This iconic game got a remake in 2010.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Gameplay:<\/strong>\u00a0<span class=\"removed_link\" title=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=uOWIXfd3ZS8\">Goldeneye 007<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Release date &amp; Platforms:<\/strong>\u00a01997<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>(Nintendo 64) &amp; 2010 remake (Nintendo Wii)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Looking for an apartment?<a href=\"https:\/\/www.shbarcelona.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> <strong>ShBarcelona<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0is the answer.<\/em><\/p>\n<div style=\"display: none;\"\n    class=\"kk-star-ratings kksr-valign-bottom kksr-align-left \"\n    data-id=\"87732\"\n    data-slug=\"\">\n    <div class=\"kksr-stars\">\n    <div class=\"kksr-stars-inactive\">\n            <div class=\"kksr-star\" data-star=\"1\">\n            <div class=\"kksr-icon\" style=\"width: 25px; height: 25px;\"><\/div>\n        <\/div>\n            <div class=\"kksr-star\" data-star=\"2\">\n            <div class=\"kksr-icon\" style=\"width: 25px; height: 25px;\"><\/div>\n        <\/div>\n            <div class=\"kksr-star\" data-star=\"3\">\n            <div class=\"kksr-icon\" style=\"width: 25px; height: 25px;\"><\/div>\n        <\/div>\n            <div class=\"kksr-star\" data-star=\"4\">\n            <div class=\"kksr-icon\" style=\"width: 25px; height: 25px;\"><\/div>\n        <\/div>\n            <div class=\"kksr-star\" data-star=\"5\">\n            <div class=\"kksr-icon\" style=\"width: 25px; height: 25px;\"><\/div>\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    <div class=\"kksr-stars-active\" style=\"width: 150px;\">\n            <div class=\"kksr-star\">\n            <div class=\"kksr-icon\" style=\"width: 25px; height: 25px;\"><\/div>\n        <\/div>\n            <div class=\"kksr-star\">\n            <div class=\"kksr-icon\" style=\"width: 25px; height: 25px;\"><\/div>\n        <\/div>\n            <div class=\"kksr-star\">\n            <div class=\"kksr-icon\" style=\"width: 25px; height: 25px;\"><\/div>\n        <\/div>\n            <div class=\"kksr-star\">\n            <div class=\"kksr-icon\" style=\"width: 25px; height: 25px;\"><\/div>\n        <\/div>\n            <div class=\"kksr-star\">\n            <div class=\"kksr-icon\" style=\"width: 25px; height: 25px;\"><\/div>\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n    <div class=\"kksr-legend\">\n            <strong class=\"kksr-score\">5<\/strong>\n        <span class=\"kksr-muted\">\/<\/span>\n        <strong>5<\/strong>\n        <span class=\"kksr-muted\">(<\/span>\n        <strong class=\"kksr-count\">1<\/strong>\n        <span class=\"kksr-muted\">\n            vote        <\/span>\n        <span class=\"kksr-muted\">)<\/span>\n    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Video games are entertaining and even more so if you know the settings in which they take place. Thousands of video games have used a variety of settings in different cities of the world, including our dearest Barcelona. Here are some of the most popular ones. 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