After watching the multiple videos that @alex, @vinny and @austin_walker did on Contradiction I heard that the village was called Great Budsworth in Cheshire, after going on Google Maps I realised that this village was only 9 miles away from where I work in Middlewich. So today after work I decided to visit Great Budsworth and take a few photos and attempt to make a comparison between the angles used in the game.

The Pub

The Houses

The Phonebox

The Turning

I probably could have done more sleuthing but these are the places (that I could find) that stood out to me. I don't know where the Atlas building is or anything in the woods. It was a very nice and quiet village and I hope that nobody gets murdered in Great Budsworth anytime soon.

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Good stuff! You could start work on a non-canon sequel!

Awesome photos, also I suggest that the George and Dragon Pub be a new location for giantbomb/beastt meetups!

Nice pics, Tom. I'm jealous, no FMV games were ever filmed near me!

Great creepin'!

Next step: re-enact the scenes depicted in the game to create Contradiction: The Movie, based on the hit video game.

For bonus points, advertise this new product as full-motion video.

Cool! Looks like a nice little place. Population 339 according to Wikipedia.

Wait, Cheshire?? Holy Shit that's only like a short bus & train ride away from me.

Nice photos, thanks for sharing!

I love that the same car is parked at the pub.

+3 internets to whomever photoshops the GBeast crew into these shots.

Did you ask anyone at the pub if \m/ meant anything to them?

@koolaid said:

I'd have gone in but the £14 for a roast dinner put me off.

Or the GOTY 2011 greenscreen footage.

What a quaint little town! Excellent stuff!

@dudeglove said:

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Yes! This must be done! I haven't the chops for it but I know we have some amazing PS Wiz's here.

Did you check inside the pub to see if anyone was at the restaurant?

I wish that town had a little plaque made that said "Home of the Contradiction video game"

@cooljammer00 said:

I didn't want to happen across any potential spoilers, what if the murderer was there?

Impossible. No one is ever there.

This is why I love this site and it's users <3

This is inanely rad.

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Cool, but stay safe around there. You don't want to get shopping-bagged.

Really awesome stuff.

Top sleuthing!

Should have called the Chief. He'd have given you some hot tips (maybe on local restaurants).

I'm not one of them either, but I threw something together in Paint Shop and used a bunch of instagram-esque photo filters to hide the green screen edges:

For people who could do a better job, you can get their greenscreen sessions in this video:

You resisted the urge to carve the hails n' horns into a tree, so you are far stronger willed than I.

Looks like a good town for some bike riding and murderin'.

Great Budsworth, eh?

Now we know why James lives there.

Thanks for taking the time to do this - it's really interesting to see.

Good work, @karlpilkington

That they're like anime fans?

But stuff like this is always pretty cool.

@noblenerf said:

Thanks! I will have to find the tree, Vinny has urged me to on Twitter.

Amazing. Thanks for taking the time and sharing.

Oh dude that is so cool! Thank you so much for sharing these!

Thats really cool, thanks for doing that

...I wish Indiana had cool looking houses and shit

You've done some fine work, good sir! Fine work indeed!

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@skullpanda1 said:

Prepping a stakeout to bust Ryan once he comes for his stupid Port

Regretably didn't find any good pictures of Austin to use, also just imagine Alex is crouching ;P

@karlpilkington: I'm not at my pc to see the credits right now but there were 2 locations mentioned, it's possible the woods and Atlas stuff were at the other town. Or maybe that other location was just interiors, I have no clue. Just tossing that (admittedly incomplete) info out there.

Heh thats awesome ! Thanks for posting these.

@somethingclever said:

I would like to find that tree, considering I live nearby it might be worth a look...

Somebody in the thread made by the developer said that they lived across the street from the Atlas building; you could go check that thread and see if it's near you or not

Looks a lot better without the instagram filters over it.

That is really cool.

This is delightful. Thank you.

That's a gorgeous little village! Love the architecture, especially the pub.