Cartography. Cartography Recreation and sports

Ganton(Ganton)

This poor area was seen in the second trailer of GTA 5. It is very similar to Ganton, which is copied from the real-life Compton area.

East Beach (East Beach)

The place in this screenshot resembles the real-life Long Beach or Playa del Seville from GTA San Andreas.

Suburb of Los Santos

There's not a lot of materials here. Still, the developers strive to show more of the main part of the city. However, in the diversity of the environment, the main GTA city 5 terrain there is no doubt - ROckstar has extensive experience working with wildlife and villages since GTA San Andreas and Red Dead Redemption.

Beaches

Bright beaches with golden sand - beautiful place for walking the dog!

Perhaps the following beaches will appear in GTA 5:

• Mission Beach
• San Clemente
• Coronado Beach
• Malibu

Zancudo River

Zancudo is beautiful mountain river. Zancudo is translated from Spanish as “mosquito”.

In addition, the appearance of the Santa Ana River is possible.

Groves and farms

Perhaps players will be able to purchase farms in GTA 5. Or maybe they won’t be able to - time will tell!

Blaine County

This is a small desert area located far from Los Santos. People live in trailers here, and Trevor is one of them.

grape bone (Grapeseed)

It is known that a small rural town called Grapebone will appear in GTA 5.

Alamo Lake(Alamo Sea)

This lake is created in the likeness of a real one existing lake Salton. It is too salty for that, so fishing here is not possible.

Military base

In one of the May reviews, journalists mentioned what they saw in the game military base.

Wind power plants

Such power plants occupy very large areas, and electricity is produced from wind energy. They may not be of any use, but they perfectly complement the countryside landscape.

Mountains

Mount Chiliad(Chiliad)

Well, where would we be without the good old Mount Chilliad? We hope that you will first be able to climb it for a very long time, having previously hung yourself with tourist equipment, enjoy the beautiful scenery, and then jump with a parachute into a beautiful valley.

Mount Josiah(Josiah)

There will be more than one mountain in GTA 5! According to journalists who saw the game in late April, the mountain is called Josiah.

A story about fans revealing secrets Grand Theft Auto 5, and how they did it.

On September 30th, Craig Ovens published an extensive article on eurogamer.net about fans who had been attempting to create a map of Los Santos and Blaine County long after the game was released. I present to your attention a translation of this article.

In July 2012, Rockstar released the following screenshot: For most of us, this image conveys just one clear fact. It says that in Grand Theft Auto V there are helicopters. At that time this was not an interesting fact. After all, Grand Theft Auto IV also had helicopters. We wanted to know about airships, fighter planes, all sorts of cool things. But for a limited group of the game's fans, this picture was the breakthrough they'd been waiting for, the missing piece of a hugely ambitious puzzle.

“From this screenshot we learned about almost the entire western part of the city,” says Thomas Rondeau, a geographer by training better known as Fido_le_muet on gtaforums.com. Rondo is a dedicated member of a team of GTA fanatics who have taken on the ultimate cartographic challenge. They set out to create a map of all of Los Santos, from the airport to the harbor, from the golden sands to the highest mountain peaks, before the game was even released.

“In the first trailer, we only saw Downtown and glimpses of Santa Monica and Venice,” Rondeau explains, referring to the real-life neighborhoods. Los Angeles, which Rockstar visually searched to create the corresponding areas of Los Santos. "But with this new [screenshot], we saw the entire western part of the city. This makes the map what it is now."

Not surprisingly, cartography was one of the aspects that Rondo enjoyed most given his profession. “The basic idea that I find attractive,” explains Rondeau, “is to start with a blank slate and slowly, step by step, create something significant.”

And the cartographers began to work, slowly indeed. The first few versions of the map were very rough sketches, stitched together from scraps of city plans they could salvage from the first trailers. Rockstar rarely indulges fans with lavish marketing, so cartographers had to work with very little material: one aerial screenshot here, a three-second clip of a street corner there.

They looked closely at parts of the screenshots that most of us didn't even notice: sunlit or foggy backgrounds, streets flashed behind the characters' shoulders or helicopter blades. It was not an easy job, but their dedication paid off in spades. Even the very first rough sketch of Rondo's map was a move in the right direction, with a few fragments of precise street locations drifting among the gaps, and even the rough outline of Blaine County still discernible. This is a map that will be further refined with each stage, as more enthusiasts pay attention and donate their time, and more geographical details are available for analysis in the form of screenshots.

Thomas Rondo's first attempt to map Los Santos, around January 2012.

So how did they do it? How did they, with the help of these out-of-context scraps of information about Los Santos, create an accurate plan - a surprisingly accurate plan, as it later turned out - of the finished city? Yes, Rockstar North is, of course, very secretive, but the cartographers had one fairly serious source of information in their hands, on which it was impossible to impose restrictions - Los Angeles.

Los Santos is Los Angeles. It's not just inspired by the latter. This is the real Los Angeles, transformed and twisted by the hands of Rockstar North. While it's not perfectly accurate, parts of the city look nearly identical, and it's probably best viewed as an excerpt of Los Angeles' highlights. All the tourist attractions are there, but like a Hollywood plastic surgeon, Rockstar trims away the excess fat: residential areas, little-known landmarks, ugly city outskirts. Do this, then mix up the layout of what's left before each street, storefront, and advertising poster passes through the filter of the brand's signature caricature, and what will become Los Santos begins to emerge.

The real Los Angeles gave map makers an idea of ​​where the main geographical features how the city's districts should be connected to each other. This was much more useful than the comparison to Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, which bears no more similarities to its modern incarnation than GTA III's Liberty City. However, even though fans had a rough idea of ​​what their final map would look like, they still had to take each screenshot and determine what part of the city it depicted. It doesn't seem like this information is enough to continue. They need something concrete, some undeniable reference points that connect the real world with Rockstar's creation.

Attractions. Drive around Los Santos and you'll pass by dozens of notable features of Los Angeles, served up with GTA sauce: the Vinewood sign is the most obvious of them, but obviously that's all it's notable for us. Next on our list are Downtown skyscrapers.

"We defined the buildings based on where they are located in real life," explains Rondeau. "We identified obvious buildings such as the US Bank Tower, California Plaza, The Westin Bonaventure [and] began to place these buildings in relation to each other. At the very beginning we had several maps from different authors. We borrowed ideas from each other."

Look again at the image at the beginning of this article. It's a helicopter hovering over a city, definitely inspired by Los Angeles, but doesn't really clarify anything else, right? And here’s what this screenshot looked like in the eyes of cartographers:
And that's before they've even started scouring Google Streetview for less clear buildings.

“It's like a treasure hunt,” says forum member MrThingus, who has discovered and located locations including the Powell Library and the Beverley Hills Peninsula Hotel. “You peer at the screenshot, carefully scour that particular area to find something that can be marked on a hand-made map. Finding landmarks before the game is even released gives the same sense of fun and excitement that comes from knowing that in just a few months or weeks you will be able to drive around a virtual Los Angeles with a level of detail that few games made before have been able to achieve."

This excitement, the excitement of anticipation and anticipation, permeates all the efforts of cartographers. They were Rockstar North's biggest fans, so eager to experience the world they knew was destined for them that they tried to bring it to life early.

"I think the main motivation for a lot of us was that it was highly anticipated," says cartographer Robert, who goes by lxr on the forums. "You won't be able to play it, as we thought, for at least another half a year. It turned out to be even longer. How would you survive this wait? I think a lot of people did it because it was the only way to visit this map, you know? "

The mapmakers' need to visit Los Santos as quickly as possible reflects the pure, amazing power of the worlds Rockstar creates. Beneath the surface of their sharp, cartoonish satire, Los Santos and Liberty City somehow combine real-life inspirations with the hyperreal, almost mythical New York and Los Angeles we know from cinema. It may not be New York or LA, but it evokes a strong sense of these cities, more so than many other games that attempt to more faithfully replicate any cities.

Time spent in Liberty City inspired many to take up cartography, as mapmaker Koeklin recalls, who began finding landmarks in GTA 4.

"I didn't know much about New York"," he says, "I knew Liberty City was inspired by this city, but I had no idea how." One day, while Koeklin was replaying The Snow Storm, a mid-game mission in which Niko Bellic fights his way through the gutted innards of a hospital to recover a stolen bag with cocaine, and found himself thinking about the strangeness of the surroundings. What was an abandoned hospital doing so close to the sparkling lights of Manhattan, okay, let alone Algonquin?

“I thought it was strange that there was a huge, ruined building on Colony Island,” he says, “and I wondered if there really was a place like it in New York. I looked it up. Google Maps and found it without difficulty. This is the smallpox hospital on Roosevelt Island.

"After that, I tried checking out a lot of different places and was surprised to find that they were also in New York. I could already see the city like before, I felt like I had rediscovered this game. So I naturally identified buildings in Los Santos since the first GTA 5 trailer."

The mapmakers' love for these cities is a compelling refutation of any argument that seeks to limit the role of Grand Theft Auto to the mayhem that occurs in them. “Killing people, burning [them], getting crushed by car wheels have never been things that interest me in GTA,” concludes Koeklin, “I have the whole city, where I can walk freely. I prefer to play tourist."

The close relationship between Los Santos and Los Angeles must have been a handy tool for those mapping the city, but what about the countryside? These cartographers have far fewer real-world references to use, with Rockstar starting to depict things a little less authentically to real life the further they get from the city's borders. The countryside in GTA V, the shape it took, and its location relative to Los Santos remained a big question mark for the map project for a relatively long time.

“When I became involved a year ago,” explains Robert, “we had the city already developed, but the countryside was still a big mystery.” At that time, no one expected that the Alamo Sea, which is based on the Salton Sea, would be located north of Vinewood. We thought like: “Why on earth would they do that? In real life, it’s in the Southwest [USA - translator’s note (or mistake, the lake is southeast of Los Angeles)], it can’t be!”

Before that fact was established, cartographers, however, went through countless versions. Is the map an island? Or is it several islands? Is Los Santos surrounded by an endless automatically generated desert, or by invisible walls? And just how vast can rural areas be, what form can they take, how will it actually be?

"There was no idea about the size," says Robert. "It was damn hard to figure out what you're seeing [in the screenshot]: How big is it? How many kilometers can it be? Does it end there?"

And then the mapmakers realized that Rockstar had given them all the clues they needed.

Quite early in the campaign, Rockstar released the following screenshot, which, thanks to the famous Vinewood sign, could easily be located. But more importantly, at the same time, this screenshot gives us a tantalizing glimpse of rural development outside the city. "This was the first screenshot we had that connected the city to what lay beyond it." - Robert remembers.
On its own, however, the screenshot was useless. The perspective and distance made it almost impossible to judge anything, and there was no way to tell how the bleak countryside behind lay in relation to anything that had already been shown. Those of us who have since played the game must have realized that the Alamo Sea may look sprawling from a great distance, but at the time the contents of that misty shadow were the subject of intense debate. The picture was analyzed, discussed over and over again, and then left alone.

Until then, Robert pays close attention to the next screenshot, until this one was released in the same series of screenshots...
...and then things started to make sense.

“If you look at the screenshot of the helicopter you can see the fog in the background,” explains Robert, “what I saw after looking at it for quite a long time is if you look at mountain range in the farthest shot, with three or four ridges, and then look at the screenshot with Trevor, you will notice that both there is a mountain in the background. And I found four or five distinctive features among those ledges that made a perfect match.

It's hard to see because the perspective is different. But once you see that these two images actually share some very unique features, you will understand that what you see in the screenshot with the helicopter near Vinewood is nothing more than the Alamo Sea.

The methods that were used to construct a map of rural areas required quite painstaking work. The map makers searched the screenshots for distinctive geographic features, and then tried to find the same ones in other screenshots, gradually building their vision of the San Andreas plan by attaching the screenshots one by one in a chain. It's not as simple as it sounds.

"I really learned a lot about perspective this year by mapping Los Santos," Robert says, laughing. "Perspective is a terrible bastard. The map is just huge and the closer you are to the ground, the bigger it is. So all those screenshots used very different optics. Sometimes things seem too distant, and in other screenshots taken at a different focal length they look very close to each other."

“You'll learn about perspective,” he continues, “how you create something. You'll learn about photogrammetry, which is basically the science of taking a photograph of something and then figuring out the three-dimensional parameters of that object. How do you determine what it is? straight line? People, myself included, get it wrong all the time."

It doesn't help that Rockstar manipulates its screenshots from time to time, and I'm not just talking about the strangely altered contrast part:

"You can't navigate by the sun!" - Robert laughs.

"A lot of our analysis was based on the direction of the sun," explains Rondeau, "but we found that the sun wasn't always where it should be. In some screenshots, the sun was directly north."

When Rockstar wasn't playing god to get the coverage they wanted in their screenshots, the studio nevertheless had an infuriating habit of constantly improving their creation, forcing mapmakers to tweak their maps in response. And, of course, the speculative designs of cartographers constantly came across many options for the disobedience of the natural geography of San Andreas to the laws of the real world.

"There was a case where two buildings I think were moved over time," says Robert. "We realized that not much had changed on the map. But we still had to be careful in our conclusions. At the Alamo Sea nothing flows in. We expected that there would be one - but it turned out there is not one. There is a reservoir up there, but there had to be mountains around it for it to be a full-fledged reservoir, right? No, you need to use logic, but sometimes it’s game logic, " he explained.

However, the compilers nailed this map, as Rondo's GIF showing the evolution of their efforts certainly shows.

"It wasn't surprising, we were sure we were close," says Robert with well-deserved immodesty, "it was obvious we had done it. Because there was a trailer showing the heist, which actually showed parts of the map. More before anything leaks online."

The mapmakers aren't done yet. Even now, they are combing the game world (and Google Streetview) to find every last piece of architecture and find its real source. It's no surprise that the mapping project has irrevocably changed the way its participants view the game, since they likely know their way through the intricacies of San Andreas as well as its creators.

Robert froze when I asked what it was like to finally set foot in Los Santos and the surrounding countryside. And he told.

"Fuck... it's... really weird to actually be able to do that... because, you know, because there were so many places on the map where I was like, 'oh, I wish I could turn the camera to ten degrees in that screenshot"... and suddenly being able to just go there... it's amazing. It's really amazing. Being able to drive around this map is just fantastic. It's exciting... The first thing I did in the game was get a car and drove around the map, very slowly." - Robert explained.

He wanted to see how everything fit together, the way he knew it should be, the way he and all the other mapmakers had identified it. But he also had a specific destination in mind.

"I knew about railroad bridge“,” says Robert calmly, “we didn’t have a picture of it, we only saw both ends of it, where the highway and the railroad tracks were on opposite sides of each other. It was obvious that there had to be a bridge... It was really fun to see what it actually looked like. Nobody knew what it looked like, but I knew it was there."

For most of us, stepping out onto the sun-kissed streets of Los Santos last week was the beginning of an adventure: the beginning of an endless exploration. But what does it mean for mapmakers? - This was the end of their long journey home.

The attempt to create a map of Los Santos was made possible thanks to the active cooperation of many people to whom I want to address. Thank you, GifBrah, millionsofdeadcops, SonofUgly, J24D Smaaske, UrinalCake123. jackass2009, VickeX, sabbathfan, kendoyanar, GTAlove, JOSEPH X, BoolCaX, , darkjounin, Vegetarian Piranha, boxmonster, Death2Drugs, jbte, Choco Taco, GTADKNUT, lxr, OUPS, GTAKiwi, zombie elvis, Angeleno, vLx, omawnakw and Wayne Kerr and many others for a wonderful story. And good luck with GTA 6.

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City GTA 5 - Los Santos

Description:

Like its prototype, Los Santos is a gigantic metropolis bustling with life, a city of people of different “sorts”: from rich film makers in Vinewood to blacks from the ghetto in Strawberry. As in Liberty City from GTA IV, the time of action in Los Santos is the same as it was at the time of the game's release - 2013.

Los Santos in the 2013 version can be divided into 4 large zones: North, East, West and South; Each zone is divided into districts. Los Santos has three self-governing cities: Davis, Del Pierro and Rockford Hills.

Not far from the city is Los Santos International Airport, one of the busiest airports in the world. In addition, Los Santos has a developed system public transport, covering the entire city.

Los Santos – main city Los Santos County and Los Santos Metropolitan Area.

Districts/blocks

Central Los Santos

• Downtown Los Santos (Downtown Los Angeles)
• Textile City (Fashion District)
• Mission Row (Skid Row)
• Pillbox Hill (Bunker Hill)
• Lidzhn Square (Pershing Square)

North Los Santos

• Alta (Chinatown)
• Burton (Beverly Grove)
• Rockford Hills (Beverly Hills and Century City)
• Vinewood (Hollywood)
• Richman (Bel Air and Holmby Hills)
• West Vinewood (West Hollywood)
• Vinewood Hills (Hollywood Hills)
• Downtown Vinewood (Downtown Hollywood)
• Havik (Melrose)

South Los Santos

• Strawberry (Crenshaw and Inglewood)
• Davis (Compton)
• Ranch (Watts and Florence)
• Chamberlain Hills (Baldwin Village)
• La Puerta (San Pedro)
• Banning (Wilmington)
• Elysian Island (Terminal Island)
• Terminal (Long Beach Port)

East Los Santos

• East Vinewood (Silver Lake and Eco Park)
• Mirror Park (Eco-Park Lake)
• East Los Santos (East Los Angeles)
• La Mesa (Arts District)
• El Burro Heights (Signal Hill)
• Murrieta Heights (Boyle Heights)
• Cypress Flats (Vernon)
• Murrieta Oil Field (Long Beach Oil Field)

West Los Santos

• Little Seoul (Korea Town)
• Morningwood (Westwood)
• Del Perro (Santa Monica)
• Pacific Bluffs (Pacific Palisades)
• Backlot City (Culver City)
• Vespucci Canals (Venice Canals)
• Vespucci (Venice Beach)
• Puerta del Sol (Marina del Rey)

Attractions

Skyscrapers and corporate offices

• Tri Alta Tower (Tower 801)
• Business Center Arcadios (Hotel Westin Bonaventure)
• Federal Reserve Headquarters (California Plaza Hotel One)
• SDG Headquarters (Hotel California Plaza Two)
• Little Seoul Tower (Equitable Life Building)
• Lombank Building (100 Wilshire Boulevard)
• Lombank Tower (Figueroa Tower)
• Mays Bank Tower (US Bank Tower)
• Mile High Club (J.W. Marriott and Ritz-Carlton hotels) (unfinished)
• Penrice Building (Wedbush Securities office)
• Richards Majestic Tower (Constellation Place)
• Schlongberg Sachs Center (Citigroup Center)
• Union Depository Tower (Mellon Bank Center and Gas Company Tower)
• Weasel Plaza (Fox Plaza)
• VIVAN Tower (Building 5900 Wilshire Boulevard and Aon Center)

Hotels

• Banner Hotel and Spa (Fairmont-Miramar Hotel)
• Hotel Emissary (Millennium Biltmore Hotel)
• Hotel Generic (Hotel Standard)
• Gentry Manor Hotel (Chateau Marmont Hotel)
• Huca Palace Hotel (Figueroa Hotel)
• Rockford Dorset Hotel (Beverly Hills Hotel)
• Hotel Von Krastenburg (Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel)

Residential buildings

• Dream Tower (Wilshire Christian Manor)
• Eclipse Towers (Sierra Towers)
• Cayton Towers (Central Plaza)
• Rancho Housing Development (Nickerson Gardens)
• Tinsel Towers (shortened Sierra Towers)
• Weasel Plaza (Fox Plaza)

Recreation and sports

Teams

• Boars Baseball Club (Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim)
• Los Santos Squeezers
• Los Santos Pounders
• Los Santos Corkers baseball team (Los Angeles Dodgers)
• Baseball Team Feud
• Los Santos Kings (Los Angeles Kings)
• Los Santos Benders
• Bookworms, football team Los Santos University
• Los Santos Panic basketball team (Los Angeles Lakers)
• San Andreas Magnetic
• Los Santos Jardineros

• Del Perro Plaza (Portofino Plaza)
• Los Santos Golf Club (Los Angeles Country Club)
• Maze Bank Arena (Inglewood Forum and Memorial Coliseum)
• Pleasure Pier (Pacific Park)
• Yacht Club Puerta del Sol (Marina City Club)
• Rockford Plaza (Beverly Center)
• Vinewood Bowl (Hollywood Bowl)
• Vinewood Speedway (Hollywood Park Speedway)

Arts and culture

• Betsy O'Neill Pavilion (Dorothy Chandler Pavilion)
• Doppler Cinema (Hollywood Pacific Cinema)
• Kortz Center (Getty Center)
• Oriental Theater (TCL Chinese Theater)
• Gallery of Fine Arts of San Andreas
• Theater Sisyphus (Greek Theater)
• Ten Cent Theater (Million Dollar Theatre)
• Tivoli Cinema (Fox Bruin Theatre)
• Valdez Theater (Wiltern Theater)
• Whirligig Theater (El Capitan Theatre)
• Weasel Morningwood (Fox Theatre, Westwood Village)

Government buildings

• Davis Town Hall (Comptom Town Hall)
• City Hall Del Pierro (Santa Monica City Hall)
• Los Santos City Hall (Los Angeles City Hall)
• Rockford Hills Town Hall (Beverly Hills Town Hall)

• Rancho Towers (Watts Towers)
• International airport building
• Tequila-la-la (Whisky e Go-Go)
• Vinewood Boulevard (Hollywood Boulevard)
• "VINEWOOD" sign ("HOLLYWOOD" sign)

Infrastructure

Seaport and airport

• Los Santos International Airport (Los Angeles)
• Port of Los Santos (Port of Los Angeles)

Important roads/streets

• Freeway La Puerta (Federal Route 110)
• Elysian Fields Freeway (California State Highway 47)
• Los Santos Freeway (Hollywood Freeway)
• Del Pierro Expressway (Santa Monica Freeway)
• Olympic Speedway (Glen Andersen Speedway/Centennial Speedway)
• Palomino Freeway (Long Beach Freeway)
• Senora Freeway (California 111)
• Great Ocean Turnpike (East Coast Turnpike)
• Mantuine View Drive
• Jamestown Avenue
• Portola Drive (Rodeo Drive)
• Marlow Drive (Mulholland Drive)
• Bay City Avenue
• West Eclipse Boulevard (Sunset Boulevard)
• South Rockward Drive
• Panorama Drive
• Nikola Avenue
• Forum Drive (Coliseum Street)
• Carson Avenue
• Vespucci Boulevard (Venice Boulevard)
• Strawberry Avenue (Crenshaw Boulevard)
• Vinewood Boulevard (Hollywood Boulevard)

Transport

Education

• Davis High School (Compton High School)
• Los Santos Junior High
• San Andreas State University (University of California, Los Angeles)

Healthcare

• Central Los Santos Medical Center (Los Angeles County Hospital)
• Eclipse Medical Center (Sunset Medical Center)
• Mount Zona Medical Center (Cedars-Sinai Medical Center)
• St. Fiacre Hospital

Police

Los Santos Police Department

Criminal proceedings

Crime

In addition to drug trafficking, the city suffers from crime, murders and gang wars in the southern areas (mainly Chamberlain Hills, Davis and Strawberry). Most of the crimes are committed by the two oldest black street gangs: the Families and the Ballas. They are involved in illegal trade weapons, including assault rifles And pistols - machine guns.

In addition to street gangs, influential UCPs operate in the city. Marabunta Grande, a powerful crime syndicate from El Salvador, is expanding its influence into Los Santos. They are in violent conflict with other gangs in San Andreas. Marabunta Grande are also linked to drug trafficking.

The city's problems don't stop with street crime. Local authorities are highly susceptible to corruption, including the police. Additionally, the Los Santos Police Department is known for its brutality; there is a known case where they shot a dog. According to some sources, local police officers use the services of prostitutes, which explains the existence of such large quantity prostitutes in the city.

Some travel from city to city for work, some because of their love for flight attendants, and some for the sake of ordinary, boring tourism. There is a place for everyone in Los Santos, if only there is desire and money. If you can handle the second one on your own, then we will be happy to help you with the first one. The most interesting places for cultural and not so relaxation at your service.

Just arrived in Los Santos, and are you already in a hurry to escape from the sour faces you met at the airport? A sound decision, but along the way, pay attention to the LSIA monument, which either speaks of the professionalism of local pilots, or the negligence of local controllers. Opposite is the wonderful bar-restaurant “Sighing”, where you can think about returning to your homeland, since the airport is not far away.

Downtown, the heart of Los Santos. The economic history of brave America is being written inside sun-drenched skyscrapers. But despite all the efforts of the economic elite, for some reason the debt to China is only growing.

Not far from the center there is a city hall building, which kindly provides preferential accommodation for foreigners, despite the fears of the migration service.

And just to the right of the city hall there is a Mexican street where you can satisfy your stomach with a couple of tacos as soon as you finish watching the performance of local artists.

If you are drawn to older actresses of the past generation, or want to take a photo with a failed lawyer in a zombie costume, then the “Walk of Stars” in central Vinewood is at your service! Also, there are retro themed restaurants and freaky cafes all over Vinewood.

Kifflom, brother-brother or sister-sister! If you, like us, are easily susceptible to suggestion, then hurry to find a mansion on the edge of western Vinewood, where they will eagerly help you find enlightenment for a measly $500!

Rockford Hills is home to the Richards Majestic Film Studios, the epicenter of all the trash you see in a movie theater. But for the sake of fairness, it is worth noting that their hotel is the best in the whole city.

In the same area there is the Lifeinvader building, where the real geeks of their craft work. It will be quite difficult to get a job with them, because they don’t care about your resume and appearance with manners, they care about your number of subscribers in .

What would an elite area of ​​the city be without a golf course? provides you with 9 holes, clubs, balls and a good mood, because you can’t have anything else, for a hundred dollars!

There is a mansion in Rockford Hills that the neighbors really dislike, because at night there is a hellish frenzy of booze, girls and a “cave of love.” If you pretend to be a fool with a lot of money, you can sneak into the party undetected.

Speaking of bobbleheads, the most elite institute in the entire state is located nearby for them. Very expensive, but that’s why it’s prestigious. Indeed, recently, prestige is assessed in the money spent on training, and not in the opportunities that the educational institution provides.

On west coast Los Santos is home to the luxurious Vespucci Beach, at certain angles. In addition to free sunbathing, this place is famous as a nightlife for prostitutes, dealers and homeless people.

On the sandy shores stands the Del Perro Pier. He is central place entertainment in Los Santos. Among the shops with beach products, you can eat a hot dog, ride a ferris wheel and ride the least scary roller coaster in the world.

The "Gate of Morning Dawn" is located on the edge of the Korean area and proudly has "서울청" written all over the monument. They symbolize the purity of thoughts, the nobility of good deeds and... and... we couldn’t think of anything else. Nevertheless, the “Gate” attracts a lot of tourists who themselves are eager to unravel the essence of the building.

In the western hills of Los Santos is the Kortz Center, the main Cultural Center cities. Don’t let strange monuments and provocative posters scare you, because that’s all it is modern Art. Also, now there are educational programs on Russian literature, Egyptian culture, Liberty City gangs and the zinc dynasty of love, whatever the latter means.

A little further east is the Gilileo Observatory. The largest observatory in the state of San Adreas, it has a lot of rooms, excursion exhibits and even an underground concert hall. There are telescopes all around the perimeter, costing one dollar, from which you will not see anything, since the observatory is too close to the city. Although, no one canceled spying on the local rich.

The "Vinewood" sign on the hills is the most remarkable part of the entire city. It's hard not to notice the dazzling white shine that reminds any homeless person that he is not surviving somewhere out there, but in the City of Angels! Even drunken foreigners are not allowed to climb the sign itself, as they face a fine of $500. But let's be honest, when has that ever stopped anyone?

Vinewood Bowl is the best concert hall under open air. Yes, there are two of them in Los Santos, but why did we choose this one? It’s simple, it’s bigger, more beautiful, more convenient, and obviously not because its administration paid us more.

The Land Act Dam holds back a huge amount of water in its reservoir. Many experts predict flooding of most of the city due to careless operation of the dam. But don't worry as long as you only have rusty doors and some spare pipes... or extra?

In eastern Vinewood there is not an underground, but a truly official casino with its own racetrack, which is about to open! Only this “just about” has been going on for three years.

The artificial lake in the center of Mirror Park is a great place for yoga, morning jogging and dog walking. There are small houses around, most of which are for sale. Hurry up to grab a place in an artificial paradise before the drug dealers do.

Hurry up to look into the world famous, according to the sign, Textile City of Los Santos. There you can find a carpet for any color, size and even taste! In addition, discount clothing stores and tailor shops are evenly distributed throughout Simmet Alley, where you can sew up purchased items.

One-story Los Santos, also called the ghetto, is under the rule of large gangs. Throughout the territory you can find tags that serve as a conditional boundary, and you can learn more from one street name than from any local resident. The fact is that they don’t like strangers there, so to avoid getting into trouble, you should read a couple of books about surviving in the ghetto. Well, if such inconveniences don’t bother you, then hurry up and get hold of the cheapest housing in the city.

Maze Bank Area is a huge stadium on the edge of La Puerta, which is famous for its great productivity. For example, the show “Shame and Glory” is being filmed there, and they promise to build a motocross arena soon. This place also serves as a safe zone in which there are practically no clashes between gangs.

The Vanilla Unicorn Gentlemen's Club is the only strip club in Los Santos and Blaine County. Here you can relax after have a hard day sitting at the bar or on an armchair with a beautiful girl. A secret: girls really need affection, so don’t be shy to touch them in any visible places and, perhaps, they will thank you for it.

Tired of your routine holiday in the concrete jungle? Then it's time to head out for adventure in Blaine County. We recommend starting with the so-called “Baytree Canyon View”, the place from which beautiful view to Sandy Shores, Grand Senora Desert and Alamo Sea. Right there is one store from the “Big” chain, which is famous for its artificially delicious fruit juices.

Too Hoots Falls (Very loud waterfall) is very a nice place in the Tongva Valley, whose idyll is ruined by a nearby road and several bobbleheads who try to fish out of him.

Marlowe Vineyard is part of the village of Marlowe. Here, Cubans, honest before the law, grow grapes on their plantations, which are canonically crushed by the dirty feet of Mexicans, because they are the ones who can give the very taste to the wine that we all love so fiercely.

Just below you can see Lago Zancudo, the only place where the effects of urbanization are not felt. Wetlands are a great addition to your SUV. Get together with friends, buy beer and organize a real trophy raid, fortunately the place allows it. What? Do you think you see a military base on the left? No, it just seemed to you.

If you're driving through northern Chumash, stop by the diner. This place is famous for the haven of the biker gang The Lost MC and a very tasty seafood lunch.

In the wilds of the Mount Chiliad Nature Reserve, a camp of altruists is comfortably located. If you like to look at natural beauty older men, and you can put up with the lack of city amenities, then this is definitely the place for you! All those whom we sent to collect this material never returned. What does this mean? That's right, about what they met good people with a similar worldview and stayed to live there. By the way, although they say that altruists do not use technology, this is actually not the case. Although, who cares, right?

Lake Alamo Sea is the largest lake in the San Andreas State and also serves as the main dividing line between Sandy Shores and Mount Chiliad. Two rivers emerge from the lake, which stretch all the way to Pacific Ocean. The lake also hosts various events: scooter racing, triathlons and fishing competitions.

There is a very deep mine on the slopes of the Great Chaparral. Access to it is closed, but no one forbids breaking the boards and committing illegal entry. There is nothing to do in the cave, which is why it is closed. Although many say that somewhere in the depths of the mine there is gold buried, left by the founding fathers.

An abandoned construction site in the Grand Senora desert has been converted into the Redwood Lights track, where motocross motorcycle racing takes place, and in the evenings fans gather to ride the same track on BMX.

Have you read a book about rules of behavior in society? Yes, the criminal code. If you haven't read it, you'll soon be making an intentional trip to Bolingbroke Prison. Until that happens, come on a tour there, maybe it will help you escape.

While the kind residents of Bolingbroke are trying to find bodily freedom, on the contrary, over the hill, the residents of the trailer park, called hippies, are trying to find spiritual freedom. You can help them with their search at any time by becoming part of their community, having first smoked a “peace joint”, of course.

The Ron Alternates wind farm has about 55 wind turbines, half of which are not operational. This place is worth a visit to see one of the key oil companies' attempts to master another level of pumping money.

Rex's Diner is one of the most interesting eateries in all of Blaine County. It is interesting primarily for its statue of a pink dinosaur, cutely holding a hot dog on its paws. Also adding to its attractiveness is the rumor that a real dinosaur was seen at a nearby quarry three years ago!

There are small islands around the island. On some of them you can find shacks, both abandoned and inhabited. Perfect place for a break from the outside world.

In the north of the map, near Paleto Bay, there is an eatery called Up-N-Atom with the slogan "The Taste of America's Future." This establishment is interesting not only because of its ambiguous slogan, but also because of its statue of a rocket, which looks cool and also beeps coolly with a Geiger counter.

The pinnacle of your journey will be Mount Chiliad. For stunning views, take the Pala Springs Aerial Tramway, or walk to the top for $10. At the very top, real freedom awaits you - skydiving, enduro, camping and much more!

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When it comes to creating a strong gaming atmosphere for a new title, location is almost everything. It is not at all enough to simply leave the players to their fate somewhere in unknown cities- the city should be alive, filled with pedestrians and cars. It must be recognizable, have its own social structure and some aspects even, roughly speaking, of current reality.

Transports players to a fictional city Los Santos and its surroundings. Los Santos is an analogue of the real city of angels - Los Angeles, which is the center of the global film industry, and is also known for its sandy beaches, highways and the underworld...

GTA Map 5 is truly vast and includes countryside, mountains, cities and beaches. We will see quite diverse and fresh changes in front of us if we compare them with the rigid and slightly claustrophobic “layout” of Liberty City.

The rural environment offers players a completely different experience: away from the bulky skyscrapers and congested highways. Before you are the great expanses of nature. The rural landscape will not make you bored, there will also be various side missions and tasks available here, along with a new park Vehicle . Each of the small settlements scattered around the map will have its own unique look

. In simple words, you will have something to keep yourself busy. And for the first time in the GTA series, players will be able to explore undersea world Los Santos?

, becoming a diver for a while. What secrets are hidden in the city's underwater caves? All this should at least fit harmoniously into the atmosphere GTA 5