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This week's featured article is Grand Theft Auto World which looks at all the locations used and mentioned in GTA games.

The Grand Theft Auto World is a fictional world consisting of fictional places such as, Liberty City, Vice City, Carcer City, San Andreas and other fictional areas.

With the exception of the state of San Andreas, never have more than one of these cities been on a single map, so there is not much solid information to confirm whether these all exist on the same fictional Earth or otherwise. However, in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, the player can fly Eastwards (over sea) from Las Venturas to a portion of Liberty City. This is roughly in line with the journey from their real-life counterparts: Las Vegas to New York.

Also, there are many recurring characters and consistent peculiarities, repeating messages and direct references between many of the games - particularly those in the GTA III Era. Many characters such as Ken Rosenberg appear in several of the games, in a constant canonical storyline - so it is confirmed that all GTA III era games take place on the same fictional Earth, although at different times, which falls in line with the games themselves.

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-:''This week's featured article is '''[[Liberty City in GTA IV]]''' which examines in detail the setting of the next GTA game.''
+:''This week's [[Grand Theft Wiki:Featured|featured article]] is '''[[Grand Theft Auto World]]''' which looks at all the locations used and mentioned in [[GTA]] games.''
-Liberty City in Grand Theft Auto IV, as seen in the first trailer and the GameInformer magazine preview, has been remodelled to look much more like New York City compared to its Grand Theft Auto III renditions. Landmarks such as the Statue of Happiness (Statue of Liberty), Chrysler Building, Empire State Building, Flatiron Building, and the Getalife (Metlife) Building are present, as well as a Times Square lookalike that features advertisements for the Liberty Tree. A rollercoaster called the "Screamer" appears to be based off the The Cyclone of Coney Island.
+The '''Grand Theft Auto World''' is a fictional world consisting of fictional places such as, [[Liberty City]], [[Vice City]], [[Carcer City]], [[San Andreas]] and other fictional areas.
-This rendition of Liberty City has versions of four of the five boroughs of New York City, plus New Jersey. Brooklyn has become Broker, Manhattan is Algonquin, Queens is Dukes, Bronx is Bohan and New Jersey is Alderney. The area of the city is compressed in size (as seen with the Empire State Building's proximity to the Broker Bridge in the final shot), and the various landmarks are placed much closer to each other than in real life. The entire map is smaller than that of San Andreas, but is immensely more detailed and has no "wasted" open space such as countryside or desert.
+With the exception of the state of San Andreas, never have more than one of these cities been on a single map, so there is not much solid information to confirm whether these all exist on the same fictional Earth or otherwise. However, in [[Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas]], the player can fly Eastwards (over sea) from [[Las Venturas]] to a portion of [[Liberty City]]. This is roughly in line with the journey from their real-life counterparts: Las Vegas to New York.
+Also, there are many recurring characters and consistent peculiarities, repeating messages and direct references between many of the games - particularly those in the [[GTA III Era]]. Many characters such as [[Ken Rosenberg]] appear in several of the games, in a constant canonical storyline - so it is confirmed that all GTA III era games take place on the same fictional Earth, although at different times, which falls in line with the games themselves.