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Revision as of 23:18, 28 September 2009

File:GTA IV Number Plate.JPG
An unassigned Liberty City license plate in a pre-release screenshot for Grand Theft Auto IV.

Vehicle license plates are introduced in Grand Theft Auto III with the player's ability to explore in a three-dimensional environment making plates viewable. The feature has very little use aside for cosmetic purposes.

Description

License plates in GTA III and Grand Theft Auto: Vice City are static textures, with all plates in GTA III reading LC R29 and all in GTA Vice City illegible but have a Florida state plate.

License plates are dynamic in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, generating random 7 character license numbers that consist of both letters and numbers, and are divided into groups of four and three characters. Each of the three major cities in San Andreas have their own plates and some vehicles have their own custom license numbers.

For Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories and Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories, license plates in both games feature a "LC" (Liberty City) and "VC" (Vice City) prefix, respectively, followed by a four-digit number. While still more varied than in GTA III and GTA Vice City, the games only offer a limited number of license numbers, with each of them specific to certain vehicles models.

In Grand Theft Auto IV, license plates do not have an actual letter-number combination. Every vehicle that has a license plate has "LIBERTY CITY" in large blue capital letters. If a player zooms in with the analog sticks, or with a sniper rifle, they can see that it says "Liberty City State" . These license plates are almost an exact clone of the current New York license plates, as seen here. It is possible that the plates were intended to have a letter-number combination, much like the vehicles in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, but it may have been forgotten during the game's development.

Gallery

Custom plates

Custom plates were first explored in GTA Vice City, where Love Fist's limousine features LUVFIST plates, the only instance in the game where a custom license number exists. With the use of more flexible license in GTA San Andreas, more vehicles would appear with customized license numbers. However, the custom license plates cannot be saved in garages; once it is in a garage, the plate will become random.

List

License number Image Note
4GEDIT File:Mafia Sentinel.jpg Marco Forelli's Sentinel from the mission Saint Mark's Bistro (Forget it)
A2TMFK
File:A2TMFK License Plate.jpg
Big Smoke's Glendale (A reference to the Cypress Hill song "A to the Mother Fucking K", although this was a song released a year after which GTA:SA was set) (may also mean 'A 2 Timing Mother Fuck', as Big Smoke does betray Grove Street)
CFC 1888 Packer from the mission Cop Wheels
CHUNKY Bullet by the Burger Shot in Calton Heights
CUFFS File:2164.full.jpg Barbara Schternvart's Ranger (A reference to her job as a police officer)
DBP Banshee next to the Cobra Marital Arts Gym
FELTCH File:2204.full.jpg Tampa during Emmet's training mission (Nines and AK's)
G1RUYHUN Admiral from the mission You've Had Your Chips
GROVE4L
File:Grove4L License Plate.jpg
Sweet's Greenwood (Grove for Life)
GOLD Driving school Hotknife, which is awarded when the player completes all test in gold.
H CARMAN Patriot from the mission Intensive Care
HO 2 HO File:2166 full.jpg Jizzy B's Broadway
HOM Waltons from the mission Body Harvest
HOMEGIRL File:2070.full.jpg Denise Robinson's Hustler (A reference to her association with gang life)
J LOMAX Windsor form the mission A Home in the Hills
LA5H L3Y BF Injection from the mission Cut Throat Business
LVA4L File:2165 full.jpg Cesar Vialpando's Savanna (Los Varrios Aztecas for Life)
N13 LLF Club from the mission Customs Fast Track
NOS Michelle Cannes's Monster (A reference to nitrous oxide car boasts and Michelle's job as a mechanic)
OMEGA File:Toreno's Car.jpg Mike Toreno's Washington
OUTTHERE File:2071 full.jpg The Truth's Mothership. Like the Camper, the rear license plate is mirrored.
PREACHER PCJ 600 from the mission Highjack
PULASKI File:2169 full.jpg Eddie Pulaski's Buffalo
SHERM
File:Sherm License Plate.jpg
Ryder's Picador
SPANK File:2168 full.jpg Millie Perkins's Club (A possible reference to a drug's nickname or her sexual fetishes)
SWAG
File:Swag License Plate.jpg
Boxville from the mission Home Invasion
TAMMY Walton from the mission Don Peyote
TH3 P1G5 Los Santos Police Car from the mission Home Invasion
TIM Walton from the mission Don Peyote
TIMEBOMB Tampa car bomb used during the mission Yay Ka-Boom-Boom
TRAUMA File:2163.full.jpg Katie Zhan's Romero (A reference to her job as a nurse)

See also