author: Bart Swiatek
Ukraine in CoD: Warzone vs Real Life
Numerous locations that can be found in Call of Duty: Warzone, e.g. stadium, dam, airport tower, supermarket or parliament, resemble places known from the real world. The developers at Infinity Ward and Raven Software were inspired primarily by the Ukrainian city of Donetsk.
IN A NUTSHELL:
- Numerous locations in Call of Duty: Warzone resemble places from the real world;
- The model for developers from Infinity Ward was mainly Donetsk, a Ukrainian city that has been plagued by civil war for several years.
Some time ago we wrote about the fact that one of the locations in Call of Duty: Warzone - an abandoned pool - bears a striking resemblance to a real-world location. It turns out that it is not the only point of this type on the map of the fictional Verdansk. Dexerto published a compilation of several similar locations, which can be found in Infinity Ward's game.
Let's start with the tower you see in the picture above. The one in the picture on the right was located at the airport in the Ukrainian city of Donetsk (currently controlled by separatist forces of Donetsk People's Republic, not recognized by the West). "Was", because it was destroyed during the battle for the airport.
A very similar example is the stadium - the twin of the one we can find in the game also stands in the aforementioned city. The spot in question is the so-called Donbass Arena, the stadium of FC Shakhtar Donetsk opened in 2009 and was built for the European Football Championship, which took place in Ukraine and Poland in 2012. Two years later, it was closed down due to the damage caused by the war.
The Gora Dam - the most monumental building in Call of Duty: Warzone - strongly resembles the largest structure of its kind in Ukraine and one of the largest in Europe - the Dnieper Hydroelectric Station. The creators of Warzone made the dam in their production seem even more impressive, but such is the charm of video games.
Another two examples are the building of the Ukrainian Parliament (in Kiev) and a small bank in Donetsk. In both cases the similarity is visible at a glance.
The last example is the Atlas supermarket - its model was a similar building in Donetsk (now nonexistent).
