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** ''VideoGame/MarioKartWii'': Moonview Highway, true to its name, is a racetrack that takes place in a highway during late night. The first half of the road goes across a dense forest located next to a pristine lake, but the second half goes through a thriving urban city with many billboards placed in the buildings and a toll booth. It makes a return in ''Mario Kart Tour'' as a NostalgiaLevel.

** ''VideoGame/MarioKart8'': Toad Harbor is a racetrack located in a seaside city that is very reminiscent of San Francisco, California. Features include a marina with sail boats, a train station, and an outdoors market. Interestingly, the track also features a statue of Princess Peach inspired by the Statue of Liberty.

** ''VideoGame/MarioKartDoubleDash'': Mushroom City is a racetrack taking place in a busy city at night. The track has several different roads for racers to take, though they all lead to the same place. The roads are also crowded with other vehicles that cause racers to spin out if hit.
** ''VideoGame/MarioKart7'' has Neo Bowser City, a racetrack set within a futuristic city [[{{Egopolis}} with Bowser's image heavily present]]. It has many curves that make driving difficult and, due to the rain, there are also water puddles that cause drivers to spin out of control and waste time. Part of its music is a nod to Toad's Turnpike from ''VideoGame/MarioKart64''. It makes a return in ''VideoGame/MarioKart8'', and again in ''Mario Kart Tour'', as a NostalgiaLevel.
** ''VideoGame/MarioKartTour'': Most tracks are directly inspired by real-life cities -- New York Minute, Tokyo Blur, Paris Promenade, London Loop, Vancouver Velocity, Berlin Byways, Sydney Sprint, Los Angeles Laps, Singapore Speedway, Amsterdam Drift, Bangkok Rush and Athens Dash -- and have you race through routes that follow real-life streets through the city centers, passing multiple notable landmarks on the way.

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* City buildings including skyscrapers and other items (water towers, highway roads, oil trucks, utility poles, etc) appear in the background of some maps in both ''VideoGame/ZooTycoon'' games. These cannot be interacted with and only serve as visual decorations in contrast with the other generic wilderness, except if the player hacks the files and/or enters debug mode.
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* ''VideoGame/EarthBound'': Fourside. The biggest city in the game, the place is clearly modeled after New York, complete with lookalikes of both the Empire State Building (the Monotoli Building) and the Chrysler building (a department store). Enemies on this area include mad taxis and killer traffic signs.

* ''VideoGame/SuperMarioOdyssey'': New Donk City is a SkyscraperCity based off of metropolitan New York City, where Mario must navigate a vertical maze of stairways, construction frameworks, skyscraper exteriors, precipitous drops and hanging girders, all while dodging enemies such as giant flies and Goombas in hard hats. It especially stands out not just in the game but in the entire franchise for having very few cartoony elements and looking very much like a real city complete with more realistic-looking humans.

* ''VideoGame/WarioLandII'' has this in the "In Town" Chapter, where Wario rides a train, scales a giant building in the city, then explores the building, leading into [[EternalEngine a factory]] in the building's basement. Wario also plays a game of basketball against the chapter boss: An anthropomorphic rabbit named Dunk.

* ''VideoGame/KnightsOfTheOldRepublic'' starts you off in the CityPlanet of Taris before letting you out into the GreenHillZone of Dantooine.

** ''VideoGame/MarioKartTour'': Most tracks are directly inspired by real-life cities -- New York Minute, Tokyo Blur, Paris Promenade, London Loop, Vancouver Velocity, Berlin Byways, Sydney Sprint, Los Angeles Laps, Singapore Speedway, Amsterdam Drift and Bangkok Rush -- and have you race through routes that follow real-life streets through the city centers, passing multiple notable landmarks on the way.

* ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBros'': There are a number of stages based off of metropolitan cities from various games, including [[VideoGame/EarthBoundBeginnings Fourside]], [[VideoGame/SuperMarioOdyssey New Donk City Hall]], [[VideoGame/Mother3 New Pork City]] and [[VideoGame/PokemonRedAndBlue Saffron City]]. These typically take place on top of skyscrapers, with their rooftops and hanging girders providing platforms for fighters to stand on and divided by steep bottomless pits.

** ''VideoGame/MarioKartTour'': Most tracks are directly inspired by real-life cities -- New York Minute, Tokyo Blur, Paris Promenade, London Loop, Vancouver Velocity, Berlin Byways, Sydney Sprint, Singapore Speedway, Amsterdam Drift and Bangkok Rush -- and have you race through routes that follow real-life streets through the city centers, passing multiple notable landmarks on the way.

* ''VideoGame/TinyToonAdventures'': Stage 4-1 takes place in an urban city where enemies look out the buildings' windows to throw empty cans onto the player's character. Stage 4-2 combines the setting with DownInTheDumps, while 4-3 takes place inside one of the buildings where the player has to climb upward to meet the world's boss, an angry gorilla at the top of a construction zone.

[[caption-width-right:350:[[WaxingLyrical Take a turn, off the path...]] [[note]]Clockwise from top left: ''VideoGame/SonicAdventure2'' (City Escape), ''VideoGame/AHatInTime'' (Nyakuza Metro), ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfHeroesTrailsOfColdSteel'' (Heimdallr), ''VideoGame/TokyoXanadu'' (Morimiya), ''VideoGame/SuperMarioOdyssey'' (New Donk City), ''VideoGame/SpongeBobSquarePantsBattleForBikiniBottom'' (Downtown Bikini Bottom)[[/note]]]]

** ''VideoGame/MarioKartTour'': Most tracks are directly inspired by real-life cities -- New York Minute, Tokyo Blur, Paris Promenade, London Loop and Vancouver Velocity -- and have you race through routes that follow real-life streets through the city centers, passing multiple notable landmarks on the way.

* ''VideoGame/WarioLand2'' has this in the "In Town" Chapter, where Wario rides a train, scales a giant building in the city, then explores the building, leading into [[EternalEngine a factory]] in the building's basement. Wario also plays a game of basketball against the chapter boss: An anthropomorphic rabbit named Dunk.

* ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII'': The first portion of the game takes place in Midgar, a futuristic dystopia in which everything is controlled by the Shinra Corporation, who serve as the main antagonists until Sephiroth enters the picture. The city has numerous areas to explore that each have a distinct culture and atmosphere, and for first-time players, the fact that the story moved outside Midgar at all could be quite a surprise.

* ''VideoGame/NightsIntoDreams'': In ''VideoGame/NiGHTSJourneyOfDreams'', Delight City is Will's final stage unique to him. Part of it is an enormous playground, but the rest of it is a dense cluster of skyscrapers with bright neons constrasting the dark buildings. Said neons float in the air and become solid platforms when lit.

* ''VideoGame/KingdomHearts'' has many, usually overlapping with DungeonTown.

** ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsI'' has Traverse Town, which harbors refugees from destroyed worlds. The first district is a safe zone that has all the (usable) shops. The rest of the town is infested with Heartless, and is mostly devoid of human activity, with the exception of the ''Franchise/FinalFantasy'' characters and WesternAnimation/The101Dalmatians' houses, which are located in unsafe zones.

* ''VideoGame/StarWarsTheOldRepublic'' has several regions set on {{City Planet}}s, where all gameplay is set against urban backdrops. These include Coruscant and Dromund Kaas (capital cities of the Republic and the Empire, respectively, and the second worlds players of the corresponding factions visit), Nar Shaddaa (the central moon of the Hutt Space), and Corellia (the final planet of the main campaign). Players also revisit Taris from ''[=KotOR=]'', but seeing how it has been bombed into oblivion by the Sith in that game, it is a mix of toxic swamps and UrbanRuins in this one.

* ''VideoGame/JakX'' has tracks set within the cities of Haven (including its {{Absurdly Spacious Sewer}}s), Spargus and Kras.

* ''VideoGame/JakXCombatRacing'' has tracks set in Kras City, Haven City and Spargus City. The first two are quite modern-looking while the third is much cruder with buildings made of stone (due to having been founded by exiles from Haven).