
Liberty City is a city in the Grand Theft Auto series that appears in several games, and has three different renditions.
- Liberty City (2D Universe) - A city based on New York City that appears in Grand Theft Auto.
- Liberty City (3D Universe) - A hybrid between East Coast and Midwestern USA cities with certain inspirations from UK locations, that appears in GTA III, GTA Advance and GTA Liberty City Stories, with a minor appearance in GTA Vice City and GTA San Andreas.
- Liberty City (HD Universe) - A city based on New York City that appears in GTA IV, Episodes from Liberty City and GTA Chinatown Wars.
Liberty City is used in two titles:
- Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories - 2005 PlayStation Portable & PlayStation 2 video game.
- Grand Theft Auto: Episodes from Liberty City - The title given to the disc version of The Lost and Damned and The Ballad of Gay Tony.
Trivia[]
- In the 3D Universe, Liberty City is loosely based on a series of East Coast and Midwestern cities, including New York City, Philadelphia, Detroit, Baltimore, Chicago and Pittsburgh but without being any one in particular [1][2], while in the 2D and HD Universes, Liberty City is based on New York City only.
- Liberty City is a real place, located in Miami, Florida. Miami also being the same city that Vice City is based on.
- Liberty City's name may have been inspired by the Statue of Liberty.
- Liberty City is the location that appears the most times in the series, having appeared in nine games.
- Liberty City is frequently portrayed as a horrible place to live in. The Grand Theft Auto IV rendition is frequently voted "the worst place in America".
References[]
- ↑ "Asked & Answered: Max Payne 3 and Grand Theft Auto V" - Rockstar Newswire, July 12, 2012
- ↑ “That Liberty City was not particularly meant to be New York. That was meant to be a hybrid of a generic American city: Chicago, Pittsburgh, Detroit, New York, Philly. An old, post-industrial American city. [GTA III] was America, whereas Vice City was clearly Miami.”