Watch Dogs Parkour in Real Life - and in Chicago
Devin " 
devinsupertramp" Graham is a filmmaker who, among many other things, created popular "Assassin's Creed meets parkour in real life" series. In Assassin's Creed video games, characters get around using parkour, and Graham hires stuntspeople to play those characters and show how that might look in real life (Well, up to the point. The games take place in various historic settings, while the videos are always clearly in the modern world. But the parkour looks pretty impressive). The last couple of videos were sponsored by Ubisoft, the Assassin's Creed's publisher, so the videos actually have some decent production values - and they keep getting increasingly elaborate.
What I haven't realized until fairly recently was that Ubisoft commissioned him to make a similar video for another one of their games. I've written about Watch Dogs before - the game is set in a modern-day Chicago, and the designers went through painstaking efforts to recreate certain portions of the Windy City.
As I started watching the video, I thought - oh, Graham probably filmed it in Toronto. Most people do. But pretty soon, I realized that, no - it was definitely filmed in Chicago.
And it - and Chicago - looks pretty cool.
I even recognized a few the more obscure places - like the Chicago Loop's underground streets.
There's also a behind-the-scenes video- and also shows off more of Chicago.
devinsupertramp" Graham is a filmmaker who, among many other things, created popular "Assassin's Creed meets parkour in real life" series. In Assassin's Creed video games, characters get around using parkour, and Graham hires stuntspeople to play those characters and show how that might look in real life (Well, up to the point. The games take place in various historic settings, while the videos are always clearly in the modern world. But the parkour looks pretty impressive). The last couple of videos were sponsored by Ubisoft, the Assassin's Creed's publisher, so the videos actually have some decent production values - and they keep getting increasingly elaborate.
What I haven't realized until fairly recently was that Ubisoft commissioned him to make a similar video for another one of their games. I've written about Watch Dogs before - the game is set in a modern-day Chicago, and the designers went through painstaking efforts to recreate certain portions of the Windy City.
As I started watching the video, I thought - oh, Graham probably filmed it in Toronto. Most people do. But pretty soon, I realized that, no - it was definitely filmed in Chicago.
And it - and Chicago - looks pretty cool.
Click to viewI even recognized a few the more obscure places - like the Chicago Loop's underground streets.
There's also a behind-the-scenes video- and also shows off more of Chicago.