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Really bad quality of 3D modeling.

I hate to agree with you, but yes. This is a project that started in the late 1990s, and while it was state-of-the-art then, not so much now as compared to the near photo-realistic environments of today's video games. That being said, the point of this is to be a realistic depiction, and the more detailed the modeling gets the more would have to be invented rather than being historically documented.

Yeah, that's the point. There is no recorded detail. Existing remnants are highly eroded. Just seeing all those buildings in context is wonderful.

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