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[[File:Charge Island location.jpg|thumb|250px|Map of [[Liberty City in GTA IV Era|Liberty City]] with a red circle to highlight '''Charge Island'''.]] | [[File:Charge Island location.jpg|thumb|250px|Map of [[Liberty City in GTA IV Era|Liberty City]] with a red circle to highlight '''Charge Island'''.]] | ||
'''Charge Island''' is a small island | '''Charge Island''' is a small island featured in the [[Grand Theft Auto IV]] and [[Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars]] renditions of [[Liberty City in GTA IV Era|Liberty City]]. | ||
== Description == | |||
Based on [[wp:Ward's Island|Ward's]] and [[wp:Randall's Island|Randall's Island]], Charge Island is officially part of the borough of [[Dukes]] in the [[Humboldt River]], lying between [[Algonquin]] to the west, Dukes to the east, and [[Bohan]] to the north. | |||
Much of the island is in the shadow of the [[East Borough Bridge]] which connects the three boroughs, which features [[tollbooth]]s that the player must pay ($5) to go through in order to travel north to Bohan or west to Algonquin. | |||
Charge Island is almost entirely dedicated to industrial activity, the enormous East Borough Bridge and water treatment facility (also suggested to be a desalination plant) make it decidedly unappealing for residential development; in addition to the abovementioned bridge foundations and water works, the island features a boathouse and cargo dock to the northwest, a fuel repository to the east (with an oil tanker docked there at the time of [[Grand Theft Auto IV]]), and a baseball field to the northeast that is identical to the one in [[Meadows Park]] (The island's baseball field might be based off [[wp:Icahn Stadium|Icahn Stadium]]). | |||
A little forest with a creek is also present in the west part of the island; the small creek is similar to the [[wp:Little Hell Gate|Little Hell Gate]] in the middle of the island, while the unnamed channel to the east is comparable to [[wp:Hell Gate|Hell Gate]] in [[wp: Astoria, Queens|Astoria]]. The shorter channel on the northern tip of the island is presumably based of [[wp:Bronx Kill|Bronx Kill]], although Bronx Kill is much narrower in reality. | |||
== Prominent appearances in missions == | |||
The island is featured twice in GTA IV's storyline, in the missions "[[Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend]]" and "[[Catch the Wave]]", as well as The Ballad of Gay Tony's "[[Ladies Half Price]]", which plays out events of "Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend" from a different viewpoint. The island's baseball field is also the destination for both the players and [[Kenny Petrovic]] in the [[Hangman's NOOSE]] [[Multiplayer in GTA IV|multiplayer mode]]. | |||
The Charge Island desalination plant is also the primary location of [[Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars]]'s [[Climax|climatic mission]] ("[[Salt in the Wound]]"), where Huang Lee pursues his uncle [[Wu Lee]] through the plant while being aided by [[Wade Heston]]. | |||
{{Dukes neighborhoods}} | {{Dukes neighborhoods}} | ||
[[Category:Islands]] | [[Category:Islands]] |