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Mapping LA onto Grand Theft Auto 5

The latest Grand Theft Auto comes out September 17th and takes place in Los Santos, a fictionalized (and one can only imagine, much scarier) version of Los Angeles. To help…

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By Caitlin Shamberg • Sep 11, 2013 • 1 min read

The latest Grand Theft Auto comes out September 17th and takes place in Los Santos, a fictionalized (and one can only imagine, much scarier) version of Los Angeles. To help make sense of how the real LA and the fictional version intersect, a reddit user overlaid LA onto a leaked map of the game.

Kotaku reports that the geography of “Los Santos is bigger than Red Dead RedemptionSan Andreas, and Grand Theft Auto IV combined. Yep. There’s wilderness, a military base, and even an ocean floor to explore underwater.” They have a great rundown of what to expect from the game here.

The game is expected to be a massive hit and analysts predict it could sell 25 million copies in the first year.

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    Caitlin Shamberg

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