Why a realistic Los Santos in GTA 5 would be unconvincing

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One amazing aspect of both last year’s Grand Theft Auto V and its predecessor, Grand Theft Auto IV, were the size, scope, and detail of each game’s cities

In a recent interview with Edge, Rockstar North Art Director Aaron Garbut commented on the process of building a city, and how it precludes the developers from actually creating a 100% replica of the real thing. “I’d never want to rebuild a city. I think that would be a lot less satisfying both for us to build and for the player to play. In a lot of ways, it would be less convincing, too. At least that’s how I rationalise it to myself,” Mr. Garbut explained, “we take the feel of a city, the one we get through visiting and through experiencing it our whole lives through media, and build that. We compress, we edit, we emphasise certain things and we end up with something that in some ways, I think, feels more like the popular perception of the place than the actual city. Only because the popular perception isn’t the real city, if that makes sense.”

Grand Theft Auto V was developed by Rockstar North and published by Rockstar Games on September 17th, 2013 for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. Grand Theft Auto Online launched on October 1st, 2013.

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LeesPosted:

I meant 2013. Can't edit my comment, D'oh.

LeesPosted:

Best game of 2012 in my opinion.

GossipPosted:

They did everything well in my opinion.

HDITeRRoRiZeIPosted:

Sempiternal Would be cool to be able to fly to different islands. Or at least a bigger map. Like the just cause 2 map. That map is huge.


Have no clue how that even managed to fit onto current-gen. Its **** huge

CraigPosted:

They should've ditched the Mp and extended the SP.

KatsumiPosted:

Dolph_Ziggler they wasted to much time for the story instead for the online mode but im happy that i sold it


The Story was the best part of the game though. I would personally much rather see a company focus on the single player aspect over the Multiplayer aspect and overall.. i think Rockstar did a pretty good job

Mercedes_BenzPosted:

they wasted to much time for the story instead for the online mode but im happy that i sold it

0x0Posted:

I really hope the dlc for online on this game is quite expansive to the things you can do. One big thing is possibly a easier way to get money and level up. Heists should be good for that but maybe bump up racing a bit.

SempiternalPosted:

Would be cool to be able to fly to different islands. Or at least a bigger map. Like the just cause 2 map. That map is huge.

xSTaTiCBLuExPosted:

To be honest the map was a huge step down from that of San Andreas. They have so much potential to make the greatest map/city ever and kinda throuh it out the door, again.


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