Another game impresses me with it's possibilities for map making...

[guyanonymous]

Just Cause 2 has, in my mind, a phenomenal landscape. Snow-capped mountains, rugged stone valleys, beautiful emerald valleys/hills/mountains, desert area, etc...

This online representation of the world (using tiles of the in-game map) is also interesting: http://www.maplib.net/fullmap.php?id=8630

It uses the "Avalanche Engine 2.0"...here are a few in-game action shots: http://www.google.ca/images?q=Avalan...w=1680&bih=897

The in-game map and the in-game real-world match up very nicely.

Alas, no map editor yet....but fingers are crossed here.

[HandsomeRob]

Ack, the first thing I noticed is the rivers going all the way across the island.

But yeah, the roads look nice.

[tilt]

oh yeah.. lots of river violations there - they should take a class here at the guild .... otherwise looking cool

[Aval Penworth]

@ Tilt Is it not possible for a continent to split, leaving a gap that fills with seawater?

As for the map, very nice in places, but the plastic wrap effect on the north east island is over the top.

[guyanonymous]

One of the goals in the game is to fly under 100 or so bridges...they needed lots of rivers for that I guess

[tilt]

*lol* ... yes, sounds like they have a need for lots of rivers.
@aval - I would say so - an earthquake might split a continent and create a new water mass. But then it isn't a river, its a sea ... and I don't say all their rivers are wrong, but the odds for a world looking like that are slim *lol* ... and some of the watermasses that look like rivers are definitly sea with islands instead

[guyanonymous]

There are enough river police on that island as it is...granted the goal is to kill them all...

My fingers remain crossed that a map editor emerges for the general public....and that, perhaps, a larger scale of map is even permitted....