“Interior Simulation” is the Coolest Watch Dogs Feature that Everyone Seems to Have Missed

For over a week now, we have been witnessing a great deal of Watch
Dogs screenshots and gameplay videos captured from both PC and console
versions of the game. PC gamers, who got early access to the game, took
it to the whole different level by running the game at 4K resolution and sharing online the screenshots
captured during the gameplay. Although most screenshots we have seen
till now are just randomly taken, here are some GIFs that show a really
cool feature of the game.

Watch Dogs is clearly full of great features, here is another one
that has gone unnoticed till now. It is called “Interior Simulation.” It
is some kind of internally rendered lightening effect that is present
on almost every building in the game. Just like real-life, you see
lights and small objects inside the in-game buildings when it is fairly
dark. It looks like the spaces are not rendered in 3D, and the feature
is based on reflection technology.

The GIF provided below comes from Gamepur,
it demonstrates the cool “Interior Simulation” effect. Note that it is
roughly 15MB in size so it might take some time to fully load. I have
also added a high quality video that shows this effect, even though it
is also 145MB in size and will consume some of your bandwidth, it is
completely worth a watch.

I am not quite sure of this effect being used in any other game. Do
mention in the comments it you have seen anything like this in other
video games.