The game opens on a caged ape, from an overhead perspective.
"Rheingold" had its striking moments, such as Wotan and Loge's journey down to Nibelheim, with acrobats seen in overhead perspective.
The aeroplane delivered a deliberate overhead perspective – which were to prove invaluable to many areas of study, from cartography and defence to archaeology and aesthetics.
This strikingly composed scene is made more ominous by its overhead perspective, as if viewed from the window of a nearby building.
"A Quadrangular Yard" (1999), painted from an overhead perspective, frames its subject with wide black brush strokes; a small bird pecking at the ground is the only clue as to scale.
Six scrolls with scenes from the "Tales of Genji" illustrate a story about suppressed eroticism from a surveilance-like overhead perspective, so that even scenes of private reverie have a voyeuristic tension (Cotter).
Viewed from an overhead perspective, you control one or more teams of gun-toting policemen, drag routes for them to follow, break down doors or lob stun grenades in your mission to kill the bad guys.
His densely worked canvases often had an overhead perspective, whether they suggested an aerial view of a fantasy terrain or a bomb target, some molecular life-form under a microscope or a mass of hieroglyphs on a stretched animal skin.
A startling image of what might at first be construed as the tall shadow of a hooded form looking out to sea quickly emerges as an overhead perspective on an Ophelia-like figure suspended in the husk of a fishing boat, her long robes flowing into the water as oceanic projections (Dorothy Cross) gradually overwhelm her.
Not only will you be able to view your route with an overhead perspective, you'll also be able to view it on Google Earth.
The game is presented in a 3D overhead perspective, combining elements from the original GTA and GTA 4. Despite having an appearance similar to the former, it actually plays more like the latter and those familiar with Liberty City will find themselves right at home here.
