“That opening shot is actually a massive still photo of Riga, Latvia, which is one of many Eastern European cities that the game is based on,” says David Purchase. “So I figured, I’ll go with this. We found the photo on Wikipedia — no restrictions, license-free. I then took various other photos and integrated in the mountains in the background as well as taking elements from the game. It looks like a camera pan, but it’s really because it’s such a massive photograph; the person who first took the photograph essentially did do a pan, but then stitched it together with the images, then we zoom into it and travel across it.” - × × ×