
GTA Map Evolution: From Liberty City to Leonida
The GTA map evolution traced across every era, from the 1997 top-down original through Liberty City, San Andreas, Los Santos, and the State of Leonida.
Every Liberty City story, guide and update from GTA Intel.

The GTA map evolution traced across every era, from the 1997 top-down original through Liberty City, San Andreas, Los Santos, and the State of Leonida.

The best GTA city is up for debate, so we ranked Liberty City, Vice City, Los Santos and San Andreas on design, atmosphere and lasting appeal.

Liberty City has been Rockstar's go-to fictional New York since 2001. But the GTA III version and the GTA IV version are different cities sharing a name, in different fictional universes, with rebuilt geography and different mafia families. Here's the full mapping.

All GTA 4 safehouses mapped: Niko's apartments, how they unlock, their save and wardrobe functions, plus the safehouses in TLAD and TBoGT.

GTA 4 pigeons explained: where the 200 flying rats hide across Liberty City, how to spot and shoot them, and the Annihilator reward at the MeTV building.

Niko Bellic, the McReary family, the Pegorino mob, and the betrayer hunt — Grand Theft Auto IV's full plot, primed for replay.

A GTA 3 beginner guide to the 2001 original: learn the islands, save at hideouts, grab hidden packages, use Pay n Spray, and survive Liberty City.

How to fly the Dodo in GTA 3: where the clipped-wing plane spawns at Francis International Airport, the takeoff trick, and every rare vehicle in Liberty City.

GTA 3 rampages: there are exactly 20 across Liberty City, all required for 100%. Here is where every rampage hides, plus tips for the 2-minute kill and destroy runs.

Portland, Staunton Island, Shoreside Vale — the three islands of GTA III's Liberty City split the campaign into three distinct acts. Here's what defines each.