oaktown wrote:I'm in the process of moving from the bay area to southern California - been staying with friends in the hills above West Hollywood and downtown LA/Little Tokyo. The more I drive around the more I like the idea of making a map of the LA area, in which you'd get bonuses for controlling the freeways - the 5, 10, 101, etc.
An LA map would have the same problem I'm running into with Berlin - a lack of natural unpassable borders, but there is a lot of potential graphically. I'll play with it more when I have more time.
I've been thinking much the same thing, and if I weren't completely and utterly worthless at drawing things on a computer I might have taken a stab at it...
As far as natural unpassable borders, there are a couple of things to consider:
1. what if you could only move between areas using the freeways and offramps?
2. perhaps even better, you could do a themed LA map, like post-earthquake or the Rodney King riots, which would give you a lot of opportunities to fitz with the gameplay using downed overpasses or rioting masses or huge fires and what not... note that I'm NOT talking about some BS rendition of the city from Escape from LA...
