Algonquin was built on Staunton

[The Horror Is Alive]

I was putting on my shoes and socks, and while I was doing that, I stared at my two Liberty City maps side-by-side on my wall. Needless to say, the layout is not very different. I reckon, if anything, Dukes/Broker is Shoreside (with the airport and the little jut-out of the top-right hand corner of the area, Alderney is Portland (mostly industrial), and Algonquin is Staunton.

 

Algonquin bears the most resemblance to Staunton because

 

- It's the business district with the skyscrapers

- It's obviously in the same place as Staunton

- It has the highway going around the perimeter

- The police station is generally in the same place as GTA3's Liberty

- It has a central park

- The bridges leading to the other islands are generally in the same place as GTA3's Liberty

 

I know, I know that GTA4 was built as a total re-doing of Liberty City, but I find that Staunton was the DIRECT influence for Algonquin.

 

Your thoughts?

[chngdman]

Flat Iron building, China Town, etc... list goes on and on. Yes, a lot of Stauntun housed the New York inspired landmarks of the last game.

 

However, Shoreside, I would say, would be Alderney (it was jersey in that last game too - because it's called going shoreside and breaking night when you go party all night in the rich places in north jersey beaches, it's also where the dirtiest water ).

 

However, in Stauntun, there were other places as well, as well as the whole map had some things from other cities (it was not as varied as people say, they read into what Rockstar says way too far). The stadium can be found in Philly, for example.

 

The last Liberty wasn't as tightly woven as this one. There's a lot to speculate about it.

Edited January 16, 2009 by chngdman