10 Video Game Locations You Didn't Know Actually Exist

5. Altissia (Final Fantasy XV)/ Venice, Italy

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Square-Enix/By Didier Descouens [CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0)], from Wikimedia Commons

Final Fantasy XV's Altissia couldn't be any more Venetian if it was a set of slatted blinds.

Everything from Italy's 'City of Masks' is faithfully reproduced in Square-Enix's Accordo counterpart, from the beautiful bridges and undulating gondolas right down to the distinctive red and white briccole. The only thing our foppish band of brothers don't happen across in Final Fantasy XV's version of Serenissima is an insufferable throng of tourists. They're quite insufferable enough.

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