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These are 3 colorized pictures of the Shuri castle before it was destroyed during the Battle of Okinawa. This is how the castle should look like in Call of Duty World at War, the vanilla one was solely based on the 1992 restored version, including its surroundings. Also, not to mention why the hell they moved Shureimon/Shuri gate into the northern part of the castle (the starting point of the Breaking Point mission). And why there are so many trees still left standing in the part of the island that was supposed to be destroyed almost completely by US naval gunfire and bombing raid!?
Well, since the real Shuri castle should have been reduced to the rubble also when the US marines (1st MARDIV) and infantry (77th INF DIV) arrived. So I guess the developers tried to create an ALTERNATE timeline as if most parts of the castle and its surroundings had survived from the furious naval gunfire and bombing raid. But still, there shouldn't be SO MANY TREES still left standing.
And also the fact that they put way so many coconut and palm trees on the island. The majority of them you can see nowadays on Okinawa were imported from tropical countries, appeared mostly on the fancy resorts and shopping streets of the island. But if you ask me, there might be a chance that some of the trees might actually existed on the island at that time, but not way too many as they were portrayed in the game. And the tree should be 'Satake palm tree', as for the realism.
Source of the pics:
1) Okinawankarate.org
2) Liuchiuan.com
3) Apjjf.org (I colorize it)
Textures Mod: Moddb.com
Article with these info: Moddb.com
4 important surroundings that Treyarch totally missed:
1) Engaku-ji (Okinawa) temple's 2 main buildings (only the front gate building and Hôjô-kyô bridge appeared in the game).
- Wiki.samurai-archives.com(Okinawa)
2) Methodist Church, located on the north-east of the castle (quite far, but should be visible).
- Shimashi.ti-da.net
- Christiantoday.co.jp
3) Okinawa normal school, it should appear behind the starting point on the right (the plain area near Benzaitendou and Enkan pond).
- Okic.okinawa
- Okic.okinawa
- Blogs.yahoo.co.jp
4) Kankaimon, the MAIN entrance of the castle. It was replaced by some fictional buildings for no apparent reason...
- Japantravel.navitime.com
- Tripadvisor.com
New links for Engaku-ji (Okinawa) temple and Okinawa normal school (Shihan Gakkō):
- Samurai-archives.com(Okinawa)
- Battle-of-okinawa.hatenablog.com