

The first entry to mark Rockstar's arrival, GTA III's rendition of Liberty City is as iconic as it gets.Ĥ) GTA Vice City (image credits: GTA wiki fandom)Īfter Rockstar had tasted success with the cold, atmospheric Liberty City, they experimented further and brought Vice City into existence. The size of the map was one of the biggest seen at the time outside of the procedurally generated maps of something like Daggerfall. The city was both terrifying and magnificent. Taking inspiration from its real-life counterpart but not a complete recreation, Liberty City was filled with towering skyscrapers and seedy neighborhoods. Rockstar's first full 3D rendition of an open-world came in the form of Liberty City, modeled after the real-life New York. GTA: Map size of every mainline entry in the seriesĥ) GTA III (image credits: GTA wiki fandom) Here we take a look at the map size of each main entry in the GTA franchise. Rockstar's massive open-world map was one of the biggest the industry had ever seen, and GTA soon became the industry juggernaut we know it as. There was something undeniably punk-rock about Rockstar Games, but they truly helped drive the point home with GTA III and the series' first foray into the open-world genre.

The series burst onto the scene with original games, and with a sense of rebellion that Rockstar has managed to convey over the years.

Needless to say that this project will take a long time to fuly complete but you can follow all the progress on N11cK's YouTube channel where the progress videos are being posted.The GTA franchise has featured some of the most influential games in history, and has helped establish the open-world genre as the most commercially viable genre of games. Naturally this includes the city of Los Santos as well as the countryside areas of Blaine County and all notable, well-known landmarks such as the airfield for instance. Although the undertaking has only been running for 10 days, much of the city has already been recreated in high detail. The map will be on a 1 to 1 scale and will roughly be 7500 by 7500 blocks". "We will be building and recreating everything from mountains to high skyscrapers and buildings. The name of the project is simply ' GTA 5 in Minecraft' and is an incredibly ambitious undertaking, with the team trying to meticulously recreate the map as accurately as possible. The project began on January 10, 2016, and the most recent update video shows their progress on the main city, Los Santos. A team of enthusiastic and creative Minecraft players have been taking on the gargantuan task of completely recreating the entire map of Grand Theft Auto V!
