GTA Miles Vs. True Crime Miles

[CryptReaperDorian]

I'm wondering if the miles in a GTA game are the same as miles in a True Crime game. How do you measure miles in a game anyways? So, the largest GTA is GTA SA at 13.9 sq miles while TC: LA is 240 sq miles (TC: NY is 24 sq miles due to large density of Manhattan). Anybody who has played TC: LA would know it takes basically forever to get from one side of the city to another. Who knows how they compare with measurements?

[Crazy Asian]

It all depends on how the game was scaled.

[CryptReaperDorian]

 

It all depends on how the game was scaled.

That's what I'm talking about. Does anybody actually know if they are scaled the same or about the same? TC: LA feels so much larger than SA.

[AnotherDave]

There shouldn't be any difference in scaling, as long as everything is to scale with everything else then distances etc. should feel "right" in game. A mile can only be a mile and can't be scaled independently to everything else, so if you travel at 60 mph in a straight line you will cover one mile in one minute, no matter what game you are using.

 

I suppose the question is did both games actually use miles or just pass off an arbitrary distance as a mile?. You said that TC: LA feels larger than SA, but you also give figures that say TC: LA's city is over 17 times larger than San Andreas, so even accounting for dodgy scaling would you really expect it not to feel bigger?