3. Escape to Italy with a Few Assassins
Assassin’s Creed is a series of action-adventure open world stealth games in the historical fiction genre, with incarnations across multiple gaming platforms. It’s one of Ubisoft’s best sellers. Various versions travel across time and place to let you virtually visit Victorian England, the French Revolution, Imperial China and more. Assassin’s Creed II takes players back to the Italian Renaissance, while exploring pretty realistic settings of 15th century Florence, Venice and Forlì. Nothing compares to a real trip to Tuscany, but on a Saturday afternoon of gaming, you can sort of go there in your mind.
4. Explore a Nuclear Zone without Radiation Fears
Here’s one place that might be safer explored in the virtual world rather than the real one. S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl is a first person shooter game set in, you guessed it, Chernobyl, of nuclear disaster fame. Granted, this is a fictionalized futuristic scenario where a second catastrophe has striken the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant. Graphic details are based on the real world ghost town of Pripyat and the bleak surrounding area, albeit with some artistic license. It’s a survival horror game with RPG elements, but if you really want to explore this abandoned region of the Ukraine, there are Chernobyl tours there today.
