Virtually all games in the industry take reference from real life in some way, whether it be imagery, historically etc., it’s the basis for all of it. For example the ‘Call of Duty’ series uses not only real places but real historical/current moments; meaning the creators needed to take an extensive look into the events of WWII and every country’s appearance in both Japan and Russia for the ‘World at War installment’
One thing Square Enix’s ‘Final Fantasy’ series draw from is mythology, from a wide variety of different cultures; for their summon designs. One of the most used I noticed was reference from Norse mythology, for instance the different Gods: Odin, Gilgamesh, Quetzalcoatl, Fenrir and Bryhindlr; designing them with their background story in mind; like Bryhindlr, used in Final Fantasy XIII is designed as a flaming warrior, very poised posture; which fits this god in particular perfectly as she was a Valkyrie (Battle Maiden), who refused Odin’s advances; angered by this he dumped her atop a flaming mountain so no one else could be with her without having to go through the fire; well interpreted design I think. Another thing taken from Norse mythology for these games was the tale of the Battle of Ragnarok. Really only the name used as far as I can see, it’s given as a name for Airships and also a powerful weapon throughout most of the instalments.
Design for Odin for Final fantasy IX (creativeuncut.com :viewed on 25th november 2010)
Only examples but does show how massive an impact games concepts take from real life.
On an interesting side note- While still on the theme of using real life in games; Real life drawing from games. Apparently there has been talk of the military/ scientists are actually taking a page from Hideo Kojima’s ‘Metal Gear Solid’ Series, with the exoskeleton concept. Near enough skin tight, pretty much making you super human. It’s surprising that a game is making this much of an impact on such a logical area in life.
Snake in his Octocamo suit
(creativeuncut.com viewed on 25th nov 2010)
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