Want to get away this summer without the high cost? A video game vacation may be for you! Video games offer a wide variety of places to go–both real and imagined. You don’t even have to leave your living room!

Join Real Otaku Gamer every week for a highlight of some of the best video game places. After reading, click on the link at the bottom to take the survey on which place you’d prefer to have a video game vacation. Don’t forget to check out the previous weeks’ spots if you missed them!

This week’s featured place: Pittsburgh
Game: The Last of Us

There were a lot of cool places to visit in The Last of Us, but Pittsburgh was one of the best.
There were a lot of cool places to visit in The Last of Us, but Pittsburgh was one of the best.

Instead of visiting the real Pittsburgh, why not visit a virtual one? There’s a twist, though. This Pittsburgh is in the middle of a zombie apocalypse. Though the city is in shambles because of the outbreak of a fungal infection that turns people into cannibalistic zombies, it is still quite fun to roam around in the ruins of Pittsburgh. While visiting, you may run into some trouble with roaming bandits, who kill “tourists” or people traveling through the city in order to steal their things. Dodging these bandits and hoards of infected, visiting this city is a tense, thrilling ride.

Packages include:

• Car transportation to the city. Then you are on your own.
• A variety of melee weapons and guns.
• A charming “welcome” from the local bandits.
• Your own gas mask in case you run into spores of infected.
• A kit to craft your own health and weapons.

Explore the suburbs of the city and find out what happened to everyone.
Explore the suburbs of the city and find out what happened to everyone.

Pittsburgh at a glance:

Accommodations:
• Visit the Hotel Grand, though you may have to fight your way through bandit territory.

Dining:
• Crack open a can of food you find in the wreckage of the city.

Entertainment:
• Play dodge the really persistent weaponized Humvee.
• Sneak around and take out bandits.
• Snipe at zombies and bad guys.

Sight-Seeing:
• Take in the scenic view of the Alleghany River.
• Explore what happened to the residents of the suburb areas of Pittsburgh.
• Crawl through sewer pipes and hope that infected aren’t there.

This hotel may have seen better days, but it still has some charm!
This hotel may have seen better days, but it still has some charm!

What do you think? Which video game vacation would you prefer? Click here to take the survey
and let ROG know where you’d like to go. Be sure to come back next week for another location.

Week 3: Pandora
Week 2: Chicago
Week 1: Rapture