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Vesalius
Vaguely humorous anecdote that I need to relate:
So I watched a few Watchdogs Legion gameplay videos today, including one featuring a guy driving madly round Brixton (he crashed into the Satay Bar on Coldharbour Lane). Impressed how accurate the map is, I expected it'd be all scaled-down and mostly generic buildings with a few landmarks.
So I was in Brixton this evening and it was all a bit hectic as usual - terrible traffic, police and ambulances trying to get through, Deliveroo scooters riding against the traffic.
I was literally explaining the game to my partner, and the oddness of being in the real-world location I'd seen in a game, while walking across the crossing from KFC to McDs... when a police car heading south behind me decided to do a U-turn through the crossing. Not on the junction, but right through the pedestrian crossing as it goes across the central reservation.
Which I didn't notice at all until they put their siren on when they were about a metre behind me, resulting in me doing an uncannily accurate 'NPC near-miss reaction animation'.