While Grand Theft Auto 4 was a risk that eventually paid off (still the highest-rated GTA game on Metacritic), many fans missed the casual, wanton ways of the games that came before.

Despite being nearly 24 years old, the GTA 3 map is still one of the best open worlds in the genre. It was Rockstar Games’ first 3D and truly immersive gaming map that set the course of the series.

In the comments, when other users asked what process went into creating the GTA IV map, brucebanner4prez said that they used Blender for all blockouts of the map. These were then imported through ...

Grand Theft Auto GTA 5 modder who spent 10 years and most of his 10,000-hour playtime making Los Santos photo realistic says "modding is going to be bigger than ever once GTA 6 eventually drops on PC" ...

Grand Theft Auto Playable GTA 6 map nuked without warning by Take-Two lawyers: 'My guess is that the map was probably a little too accurate' Grand Theft Auto 'According to Steam, I have around ...

They add that this remaster was the reason the fan-made Liberty City Preservation Project, which sought to import GTA 4's map into GTA 5, was shut down earlier in 2025.