I popped one exhaustive list on the Facebook page, which I'll re-create for you in a second here, but my top 3:
Landmarks:
1) The DLR (if this can be considered 'a landmark'), if not, the Barbican Centre
2) The Olympic Park, Stratford
3) Battersea Power Station
Vehicles:
1) LT1992 Tube stock (or the new LT2009 stock)
2) Routemaster (both the old RML and the 'New Bus for London' or 'NB4L')
3) The London hackney carriage or black cab! Either the clsasic Austin FX4 or the new TX models
I know this is a
supremely cheeky question, but
any idea on release date?
My slightly longer Facebook wishlist for your reference, but now with added vehicles too!
Landmarks
As far as Central London goes you definitely need:
- Millennium Bridge (and nearby Shakespeare's Globe and the Tate Modern)
- Tower Bridge - do NOT make the classic mistake of confusing Tower Bridge (the blue one on all the postcards) and London Bridge (the really quite boring one!)
- Barbican Towers - definitely my favourite
- Battersea Power Station
- The IMAX in Waterloo
- The Olympic Park and Stadium in Stratford
- Downing Street
- Piccadilly Circus and Chinatown
- City Hall
- Admirality Arch
- Buckingham Palace
- Palace of Westminster/Big Ben
- Tower of London
- St Paul's Cathedral
- Westminster Abbey
- 30 St Mary Axe/Swiss Re/'The Gherkin'
- The Shard
- BT Tower
- Centre Point
- Canary Wharf including One Canada Square
- London Eye
- The Monument
- Covent Garden
- Oxford Street and Tottenham Court Road
- Strand
- Trafalgar Square/Nelson's Column
- Tower 42/The NatWest Tower
- The major incoming stations - Liverpool Street, Charing Cross, Waterloo, Cannon Street, Paddington, Kings Cross St Pancras, London Bridge, Victoria, Marylebone and Euston
If you're thinking of covering further out you'll need
- Wembley Stadium
- O2/Millennium Dome
- Cutty Sark and the Royal Observatory and dateline in Greenwich
- London City Airport. Heathrow barely counts as it's in Hounslow and Gatwick is in Brighton.
- The M25 - this would be if you were building a really ambitious all-London map...
- The Docklands Light Railway (likely not player controlled?)
Vehicles
- 378 Capitalstar and 172/0 Turbostar from the London Overground
- B07 from the DLR
- Slightly later LT1995 and 1996 stock from the Underground
- The BMW 525Ds in red that the Diplomatic Protection Group uses are always an awesome sight