Whereas the 3D Universe version of Liberty City was partly located on the mainland, the GTA IV version is completely made up of islands.Ī bustling commercial/business district full of amazing towering skyscrapers and a varied composition of cultures. Liberty City is divided into 56 individual and unique neighbourhoods which are spread across four boroughs within Liberty City and border the neighboring state of Alderney, including Alderney City. In Grand Theft Auto V, the films Meltdown and An American Divorce produced by Richards Majestic Productions are set in Liberty City. Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars uses the entire city apart from Alderney, and is altered for the top-down perspective of the game. However, a small number of different locations are accessible in the different episodes. Grand Theft Auto IV and its two episodes ( The Lost and Damned and The Ballad of Gay Tony) use the same full rendition of the city.

Rockstar Games stated that they avoided placing unreachable pieces of land in the distance to retain the city's 'complete' feel. Although in the game, Liberty City appears to be an isolated set of islands, the rest of America is actually nearby. The only borough not to be recreated in the game is Staten Island. The state and city of New Jersey is Alderney, which is separate from Liberty City. Brooklyn is Broker, Queens is Dukes, Manhattan is Algonquin, and The Bronx is Bohan. This rendition of Liberty City has versions of four of the five boroughs of New York City, plus New Jersey. The city has more detail and personality, with many places which are based on landmarks such as the Statue of Happiness, Star Junction, and the Rotterdam Tower. The new rendition of the city is, more likely, the 'official' GTA universe's version of New York City.

GTA IV marks Liberty City's fourth appearance in the series after the original Grand Theft Auto, Grand Theft Auto III and Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories, which came out in 1997, 20 respectively.

4.1 Housing, Architecture and Geography.

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