Is GTA 3 based in NYC?

Though many people believe Grand Theft Auto III's Liberty City was supposed to represent New York City, that is only a third truthful. Staunton Island was modeled after Manhattan, however Shoreside Vale and Portland were modeled after Philadelphia and Detroit, respectively.
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Is GTA 3 based on New York?

The game is played from a third-person perspective and its world is navigated on foot or by vehicle. Its open world design lets players freely roam Liberty City, consisting of three main areas. Development was shared between DMA Design, based in Edinburgh, and Rockstar, based in New York City.
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Where does GTA 3 take place at?

Grand Theft Auto III (2001) was set in Liberty City (loosely based on New York City, Philadelphia, Detroit and Baltimore) in 2001.
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Which GTA is based in NYC?

Grand Theft Auto IV takes place in 2008, within a redesigned version of Liberty City. The design of the city focuses on a recreation of four of the boroughs of New York City: Broker (based on Brooklyn), Dukes (Queens), Bohan (The Bronx), and Algonquin (Manhattan).
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Does GTA 3 take place in Liberty City?

Some players may be shocked to know that GTA III took place in Liberty City, meaning that Grand Theft Auto IV wasn't the first GTA game to be set there. Yes, Rockstar's first real foray into a 3D, open-world, sandbox design was in the fictional city based on New York.
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Does New York exist in GTA?

Liberty City is based on New York City and is one of the three settings of Grand Theft Auto and the main setting of Grand Theft Auto III, Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories and Grand Theft Auto IV. It also makes a minor appearance in Grand Theft Auto: Vice City and Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas.
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What city is San Andreas based on?

San Andreas, based on San Francisco, is one of the three original cities introduced in Grand Theft Auto. It is the second setting available to the player.
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Is Liberty City like New York?

As many others have already noted, Liberty City is a dead ringer for New York: It's divided into boroughs with distinct populations and architectural styles; it has most of the same suspension bridges and historic landmarks in the places you'd expect to find them; and its streets are always teeming with traffic and ...
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Is Liberty City based on New York?

This version of Liberty City has many landmarks based on its real world counterpart, New York City. It has Belleville Park, which is reminiscent of Central Park, and a building named The Staunton Plaza, still in construction during Grand Theft Auto III, which references the Chrysler Building.
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Is Liberty City an island?

Liberty City has a unique geography. Firstly, it is an island city that is surrounded by water. Consisting of four different boroughs (Broker, Dukes, Bohan and Algonquin) that are all separated by water and connected by bridge; with the exception of Broker and Dukes, which are connected by land.
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What city is GTA 6 based on?

Liberty City is a stand-in for New York, Vice City is Rockstar's version of Miami and San Andreas is all of California with Los Santos being LA. Now, it seems like Chicago is going to be added to the mix. According to insider Matheusbr9895, he's “80% confident” that GTA 6 will see some new locations.
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Where was gta1 based?

Locations. The three cities in which the game is set are modeled after certain cities, in terms of landscape and style. They are Liberty City (New York City) including its neighboring State of New Guernsey (New Jersey), San Andreas (San Francisco), and Vice City (Miami).
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Where was gta2 based?

GTA 2 takes place in a large metropolis only vaguely referred to as Anywhere City. The city is heavily stylized in a retrofuturistic design, displaying a contrast between a vivid color palette and advanced science fiction weapons and postwar architecture and transportation.
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Is Liberty City a real place?

Liberty City is a real place, located in Miami, Florida. Miami also being the same city that Vice City is based on. Liberty City's name may have been inspired by the Statue of Liberty. Liberty City is the location that appears the most times in the series, having appeared in nine games.
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Is Liberty City the same in GTA 3 and 4?

Conversely, GTA 4's Liberty City is part of the "HD Universe," which also includes GTA V and its version of San Andreas. This means that while GTA 3 and Liberty City Stories shared the same Liberty City with some minor changes, the cities in GTA 3 and GTA 4 are not at all the same.
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Where Is Brooklyn in GTA IV?

Its real-life archetype is Brooklyn. It is situated to the south of the borough of Dukes and connected to Algonquin by the Broker and Algonquin bridges.
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Where is the Bronx in GTA 4?

Bohan is located in the north-east of Liberty City, and is available from the beginning of Grand Theft Auto IV.
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Is GTA IV map accurate?

The locations are not geographically accurate though. For example, the 69 Diner around the corner from the safe house in Hove Beach (Brighton Beach in RL) is a replica of the diner that is located on 69th Street in Bay Ridge.
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Where is Vice City located?

Vice City is a fictional city from the Grand Theft Auto universe that represents and parodies Miami, FL. Across each of the three games featuring the location, the city depicts the beaches, downtown, neighborhoods, and ethnic communities that comprise the urban environment.
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Where is Algonquin GTA 4?

Algonquin on the map in Grand Theft Auto IV.

Algonquin is a borough in Grand Theft Auto IV and Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars located in Liberty City.
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What year is GTA 3 set?

Set in the fictional Liberty City in 2001, Grand Theft Auto III begins a new continuity separated from its predecessors. The game's narrative follows the adventures of Claude, a silent criminal who was betrayed by his girlfriend Catalina during a bank heist.
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Which is the longest GTA game?

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GTA San Andreas is, in my opinion, the best GTA game Rockstar ever made, and it's also the longest: At 31 hours, GTA San Andreas usually takes a bit longer to beat than GTA 5, and is fun all the way through.
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Is Grove Street Real?

A fictional street in the 2004 video game Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas and the 2013 video game Grand Theft Auto V, which is the namesake of the Grove Street Families gang in the former.
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Is GTA based in California?

GTA V's Los Santos, which previously appeared in San Andreas, is based on the real city of Los Angeles, California. Countless landmarks have been replicated in-game to give the city a more authentic look, including one that won't be around in the real world for long.
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