Here's The Map Of 'GTA 5's' Los Santos
Despite some initial grumblings about how small it can look, the detail below gives some sense of scale. You can see not only the city, but a vast expanse of wilderness, rural areas and small towns outside of it, not unlike the developer’s picture of San Andreas back on the PS2.
Rockstar co-founder Dan Houser told The Guardian that his game was about “the endpoint of the American dream,” and Los Angeles seemed like a fitting place to play it out.
The last iteration of the GTA series came out in 2008, though 2010′s Red Dead Redemption felt more like a part of the series than not. Grand Theft Auto 5 is likely the most-hyped release of a big fall in video games, and analysts are predicting that sales could reach up to 25 million in the first year.That’s a good thing, because from what we’ve seen so far, this is one of the most ambitious video game projects ever undertaken. The map gives you some idea of just how much world is being built here, but it doesn’t show you the full tennis and golf games embedded inside, the most elaborate shooter mechanics the series has ever seen, the underwater sections, the in-game TV shows, or any of the rest of the ridiculous number of activities available to the player in this open world. Rockstar has advertised a dizzying amount of content, so it’s not surprising that according to this article in Scottish Newspaper The Scotsman, it’s also the most expensive game ever made, though Rockstar has yet to respond to requests to confirm that figure.
Aside from the main game, every copy of GTA 5 also comes with Grand Theft Auto Online, a fully multiplayer version that the developers are touting as its own game entirely.
Grand Theft Auto kicks off the fall blockbuster season next week on September 17th.
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Note: an earlier version of this article said that Rockstar had released a map. That was due to a twitter error and has since been corrected.
