A group of players have recreated pirate-age Havana Cuba within Minecraft.

A group of players have recreated pirate-age Havana Cuba within Minecraft. What's interesting (beside recreating Havana!) is these players used the game Assassin's Creed Black Flag to provide the model for Havana. The game is set in the golden age of pirates in the Caribbean.

Black Flag is the fifth installation of the game franchise 'Assassin's Creed' with each game taking place in a unique city and period of history. Other games have been set in ancient Constantinople, Revolutionary War Boston, and Paris during the French Revolution. Ubisoft prides itself on accuracy. For example in the game set in Paris, one artistic director spent two years modeling Notre Dame, working with historians to ensure that even the paintings on the cathedral's walls in game were historically accurate. In Assassin's Creed III the window frames in Boston's King's Chapel are accurately recreated in the game.

Not content to play Assassin's Creed and leave it at that, these Minecraft players used in game maps and images to faithfully recreate the Havana seen in Black Flag. I'd be curious to see how much (if any) historical information these players learned in re-building the map in Minecraft.

Give it a look:
http://www.minecraftforum.net/forums/mapping-and-modding/maps/1522612-collection-parkour-adv-ns-assassins-creed-maps

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http://www.minecraftforum.net/forums/mapping-and-modding/maps/1522612-collection-parkour-adv-ns-assassins-creed-maps