the familiar city
Many cities in videogames are designed in such a way that the players finds it easy to familiarize with it at once. This happens usually when the representation of the city is really close to the physical city, thus, the player feel already acquainted with what he has already known or seen. This city makes use of an already established relationship or feeling concerning intimate urban experience. In these cases, the perception and understanding of the represented urban space comes more naturally, a phenomenon which is often connected to the narrative of the game.
