We’ll go on the record and say the dedicated fan base of gta4.net are awesome. How else would you describe a collection of screenshots 80,000+ images strong covering every inch of Grand Theft Auto’s Liberty City?
Using a handy script, the dedicated gamers collected over 80,000 photos and stitched them into roughly 3,000 panoramas. According to Adam from gta4.net, “All roads are covered, except for a few on/off-ramps that weren’t very interesting”. Consider us impressed. As bonafied GTA junkies, we don’t see any GTA-related story topping this anytime soon.
Interested individuals can now stroll around Liberty City and see it just as Niko would right over here.
How about some gaming nostalgia to start off your hump day morning? Slashdot has posted a link to original scans consisting of Grand Theft Auto circa 1995 when the game was in the very beginning development stages. At that time, it GTA as we know it today was called “Race ‘n Chase”. The documents are in reverse chronological order so you’ll have to cycle to the left instead of right. With that aside, take a few minutes and give them a look. 1995, here we come…
- November 16, 2009 8:58 am
I don’t write about games a whole lot here on Gadgetsteria. The reason being that if I’m not sitting in front of a computer or phone writing an article, the few opportunities I get to play games are just that — playing games. I don’t have nearly enough time to start reviewing games too. Sad I know. We all have our favorite game. One that we could spend hours playing over and over again with no end in sight. My personal favorite is Grand Theft Auto. More specifically, Grand Theft Auto IV. To date it is the best graphically speaking as well as involved. It’s just fun. For many fans of the GTA series, with each subsequent release we’re left wondering if this is the last sequel. I can enthusiastically say that GTA IV is not the last GTA game from Rockstar as Dan Houser, co-founder of Rockstar Games started letting small details slip about the franchises next installment.
If you’re looking for a plot, main character, city name, or any other number of variables I’m sorry to say that you won’t find it here. You won’t find it anywhere yet actually as this slipping of “details” was more of “thank god it will exist” type of thing. True to GTA form however, the environment and city of GTA 5 will come first, after which the characters and plot will fall into line. Houser also shared that the inspiration for GTA came from (surprise surprise) his love for watching car chases on TV and that GTA is the depiction of what the real world would look like if the media world set the rules. Fair enough. All I know is I like some good ‘ol simulated theft and tom foolery. You?
Electric Pig > The Times > Rockstar
