But towns such as Angel Pine in GTA San Andreas were a bit more substantial it would have been good to build on that, in the real life California when you get north of LA and those Santa Barbera Mountains or whatever they are called where the Hollywood sign and the posh neighbourhoods sit, there are other substantial towns such as Burbank, GTA V could have included a locale such as Bakersfield. This is not to say that GTA V's world isn't a great one to explore, it still is, but I would have included one more city and I would have made bigger towns in between, with Los Santos we go from one massive city to almost mere hamlets in the rest of Blaine County up north of it. Rockstar say that GTA V's world is bigger than GTA San Andreas's and Red Dead Redemptions map put together, but then it is pointed out in that thread I linked to that the huge interior lake in Blaine County is actually bigger than RDR's map and that a lot of the space is also filled with generic hills it is very easy to see why GTA San Andreas feels psychologically bigger, play the PC version of that game and with HD resolution is stunning to play anyway, on PS2 I will admit the graphics are rather more crude. It was a suspicious and nagging thought that occurred to me very early on playing and exploring and as soon as I took a looping drive up the freeway and didn't eventually end up in another city and realised I had just gone on a big circle it sort of confirmed it! I've done lots of exploring, I agree that technically GTA V's map is probably actually bigger, but with GTA San Andreas having the three cities over one, and the variety in the different counties it certainly still FEELS bigger!

There is some crazy stuff under the water, just the ocean space is probably bigger than san andreas map You have the main city, countryside,mountains, desert, villages/towns all around and a huge ocean and all the hidden places that arent on the map

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