I've seen the part of this game that it was on, you're literally in the building for less than 3 seconds, you run straight through it. It's simply not cost effective to have an artist spending lots of time designing a building that is completely non-essential.
Pretty much every game has recycled assets. Do you honestly believe that every building, tree, object that shows up in a game is completely new and unique? There's gonna be recycled assets in every game: Uncharted, Halo, Gears, Mario. It's the same for TV and movies, too. It's completely uneconomical to rebuild everything, everytime.







