A bit of an opposite to the Iceberg thread. Instead of cool things in TSW, how about TSW in cool things? What, in the world of gaming, features locations, trains or anything else featured in TSW- other Train Simulator games and MSFS excluded. I'll start: - Edinburgh Waverley, Edinburgh Trams, and the Flying Scotsman are all in Forza Horizon 4 - with the player racing the Flying Scotsman from Glenfinnan Viaduct to Edinburgh Waverley's approach in a Showcase race. - London St. Pancras and Kings Cross both feature in Watch Dogs: Legion - with missions taking place in both [albeit they receive now train service, under Albion's mandate of no Rail in/out of London and have a very different look to them.] - Could argue that the Bakerloo Line also counts here. I'm sure there's some more...
Grand Central Station is in GTA IV. Nothing like the TSW version by any means however lol. GTA San Andreas and LA Noire both have Union Station.
The railways around London in Assassin's Creed Syndicate are quite unrealistic but the stations seem to have a similar style to St Pancras. In Cars 2: The Video Game, there are sections on the London tracks where you drive over rail bridges which cross the Thames. Despite this, trains designed to look like 373s cross the bridges which act as an obstacle to the player.
Alright I was about to say Watch Dogs Legion but you did it, I’ll try something else. In GTA IV, there’s a station called “Lynch Street”, served by the subway lines: J/3 and A/8. The station is based on the Forest Hill one from the LIRR. Even the surrounding was really well replicated. The gateway which was an amazing PS2 game for its time, a shame the sequel for the PS3 was canceled. There are some underground stations, Waterloo, Charing Cross, Piccadilly Circus for the Bakerloo line, I think I forgot some. There’s King’s Cross train station. Fernbus Simulator with Marseille Saint-Charles station. Gran Turismo Prologue/5/6, there’s a fictional track taking place on the streets of London, it goes through Piccadilly Circus with the Bakerloo line.
Technically, the Bakerloo Line features in Call of Duty MW3, MW2019 and MWII. Modern Warfare 3's "Mind the Gap" level goes from Canary Wharf to Westminster station, the latter of which the player has to clear out. Modern Warfare (2019) features Piccadilly Circus in the "Piccadilly" mission and multiplayer map - with the station entrances being accessable. The station maps also name the Bakerloo Line, even if it is in yellow. MWIII's "Trojan Horse" mission partly takes place in an abandoned-looking Waterloo.
Well, not really well modelled, but a very early one is the adventure The Last Express (1997). One chapter is Ulm to Munich (which would contain MAG), the next Chapter Munich to Salzburg would also mean Rosenheim-Salzburg (SRM).
Fernbus with Köln HBf, the blue arena and the green I think it’s called something like Holz bridge farming sim 19 also has a very DB BR 155 looking train if that counts aswell
Eiger Nordwand and Grindelwald from the Gran Turismo series (both Swiss tracks) also had railways which are visible. The courses are half-real, so those railways may exist in real life. Ironically it had Vossloh branding whilst the TSW one did not. The Channel Tunnel also features in the game, with some funky Class 9s that aren't very convincing. There are other trains as well in ETS and ATS.
I still need to properly edit my tour of Britain I was putting together via footage from Forza Horizon 4, TSW, MS Flight Sim, and Watch Dogs Legion, with transitions between games and modes of transport at stations and airports.
Wembley Stadium [Bakerloo Line] appears in ((most)) FIFA and all EAFC Games. Technically - and this is a huge push - Starks Park (Raith Rovers FC, Fife Circle Line) appears in Football Manager - albeit not cistomly modelled and with no hint there is a railway next door. MLB: The Show features the Yankees Stadium in New York - from which you could technically be able to see the MTA station, accessable in Harlem Line - I haven't verified if this is possible, though. Red Dead Redemption 2's epilogue and Red Dead Redemption (1) both feature a "Pacific Union" railroad, which is a play, obviously, on the Union Pacific. - The UP also directly appears in another Rockstar game - LA Noire - mostly in Cole's flashbacks to WWII.
Another huge push would be Blackpool's ground which is in TSW and in FIFA/EAFC, but generic in both. Same with the Derby ground, which I refuse to type the name of, imagine there are a couple of others two which fall into the same boat.
I don't think Park Lane or Eastpoint Arena quite appear in TSW. Although, I suppose you can count both for FM on the same basis as Starks Park. (And, I suppose, Wembley.)
Yes, I do suppose that was pushing the boat a bit, though they are just generic stadiums as I'd imagine the FM ones are.
Not quite a game, but in the movie paddington, there is a scene in paddington station where FGW class 43s can be seen. (Pretty obvious one, but thought i'd share it anyway)
Infamously left out of Harlem, even though there are services to the nearby station specifically for ball games. Yes, you may have to license stadiums, but even a generic ballpark would have been better than nothing.
I would also add quite an obvious game to this list, that being microsoft flight sim, 2020 in this example, I have flown by following the line seen in game from Köln to Aachen, Seaford to Brighton and I think also Munich Augsburg
Anyone remember Midtown Madness 2? That had a London map where you could access a Tube network with running trains. I always had a blast getting in police chases down there and watch trains just wreak havoc on my pursuers.
Brighton's AMEX Stadium appears in most recent FIFA/EAFC Games as well as being namechecked in Football Manager OMSI 2's London add-on features Elephant & Castle at street level. Fallout: London is set to feature the Underground, somehow operational, as a mechanic. I think it's also going to have some sort of role in the story, too. New York's Grand Central Station features as a playable area in Tom Clancy's The Division, as well as the Spiderman Games.
A semi-fictional version of the Underground is in Watch Dogs Legion, the worst game in the Watch Dogs series. The lines are partly based on the real ones but the names and colours have been swapped around, and I believe some Overground and National Rail stations are included in the network, alongside some fictional ones.
