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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Where is Liberty City in real life?

Liberty City, based on New York City, is one of the three original cities introduced in Grand Theft Auto. It is the first setting available to the player.
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Is there a Liberty City?

Liberty City is a neighborhood in Miami, Florida, United States. The area is roughly bound by NW 79th Street to the north, NW 27th Avenue to the west, the Airport Expressway to the South, and Interstate 95 to the east.
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What state is Liberty City based on?

State of Liberty (also known as Liberty State or "Liberty City State" on license plates) (Nickname: The State of Happiness) is an American state in the Grand Theft Auto series. It is the in-game counterpart for the real State of New York. Like New York State, Liberty State is on the east coast of The United States.
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Is Liberty City based on New York?

Liberty City, the pixilated playground where the action of Grand Theft Auto IV occurs, is New York City, and it is not.
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What city will GTA 6 be in?

Aside from this piece of story information, he also claimed that GTA 6 will introduce Carcer City as a new location alongside Cuba and the long-awaited return to Vice City. Carcer City has been featured in Rockstar titles before.
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Which GTA is NY?

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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Where is GTA 2 located?

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 the GTA 3 map the same as GTA 4?

While GTA 3 mixed and matched various real-world locations to create its districts, GTA 4 more closely followed New York City's actual layout, and the game's various boroughs match their counterparts in the real NYC. For example, Algonquin is Manhattan, Dukes is Queens, and Bohan is The Bronx.
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What city is GTA 3 based on?

As a result, they redesigned Liberty City, which had been previously featured in the first Grand Theft Auto (1997), basing it loosely on New York City.
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Where is GTA 5 located?

GTA V takes place in the city of Los Santos and its surrounding areas. Unlike GTA: San Andreas, the city will is the main area in the game, but will still be surrounded by countryside.
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What city is GTA 2 based on?

The Significance Of GTA 2's Anywhere City

GTA has primarily stuck to three fictional cities – Liberty City, Vice City, and Los Santos/San Andreas, based on New York, Miami, and Los Angeles/California, respectively.
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Is GTA 3 Set 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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Is GTA based on a true story?

Ultimately, GTA San Andreas is not based on a true story. Some true events inspire it, but it would be disingenuous to say it's a true story. Rockstar twists some real-life events to make the game more interesting and keep its overall storyline cohesive.
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Is GTA 5 based on a real city?

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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Is GTA Vice City map real?

GTA: Vice City's Map Is A Close Replica Of Miami

The place called Little Haiti is in the game as it is also in the same place as it is in Miami.
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What is the smallest GTA map?

Measuring at 8.12 square kilometers, Liberty City is the smallest world map in the franchise.
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Which GTA game has longest map?

Description: The GTA San Andreas map depicts the State of San Andreas. The map itself is the largest map in the 3D Universe and was the largest in the entire series until the release of Grand Theft Auto V.
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What GTA map is biggest?

GTA 5 has the biggest map in the entire Grand Theft Auto franchise. The map has a land area of 48.15 square kilometers and a water area of 27.69 square kilometers, making the total area of the map 75.84 square kilometers.
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What year is GTA 3 set in?

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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What city does GTA 1 take place in?

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 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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How old is Niko Bellic?

Bosnian Wars. Niko grew up in the harsh environment of the Yugoslav Wars, and was a teenage soldier (The Yugoslav Wars were fought between 1991 and 2001, which means that Niko was only 13-23 years old at the time).
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Why is GTA 4 not famous?

First of all GTA iv is poorly optimised for PC which makes it very laggy. Also the vehicle controls are very poor compared to the GTA V, hence all the hate.
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