May 13 2008GTA4: Liberty City Vs. New York City
These are side-by-side comparison shots of New York City and Liberty City in Grand Theft Auto 4. New York is on the left, Liberty on the right. As you can see, they share some pretty similar architecture. But seriously, all 911 conspiracy theories aside, I couldn't find my favorite hot dog vendor (Ignatius of Paradise Vendors) in the game. I swear, something about those dogs -- so freaking delicious. I think Mr. Clyde may have stumbled upon the holy grail of boiled weenies -- the perfect pig lip to asshole ratio.
Several more comparison shots after the jump, along with a link to the Flickr gallery with them all.
Sightseeing in Liberty City [flickr]
Thanks to Dylan, who bares an uncanny resemblances to a certain individual that is currently banging Angelina Jolie (me)
Reader Comments
1. neonarg - May 13, 2008 12:00 PM
first
2. Wantonchicken - May 13, 2008 12:12 PM
first? really?
3. jumpin_j - May 13, 2008 12:15 PM
Okay, I live here in NYC (the real one, not the virtual one) and I have no idea where that middle photo is from.
4. Rei - May 13, 2008 12:25 PM
Hate to be a literary weenie, but you wouldn't find Ignatius because he's in NOLA. Just sayin'.
5. Bill - May 13, 2008 12:45 PM
Nu uh!
6. Jackson - May 13, 2008 12:46 PM
Nu uh!
7. Patrolman Mancuso - May 13, 2008 12:50 PM
# 4 Rei
Ignatius is taking off with that minx Myrrna minkoff at the end of the book. possibly to NYC where she is from? whos to say Mr. Clyde doesnt expand paradise and hire Ignatius as his NYC based vendor? just saying.
8. Momboelitist - May 13, 2008 12:50 PM
@3, are you sure you live in the "real NYC"? I'm just asking because I was there last week and I don't remember seeing you anywhere.
9. tard - May 13, 2008 12:50 PM
Nu uh!
10. D.Dude - May 13, 2008 1:10 PM
Actually, the Liberty City Bridge looks more like the Williamsburg Bridge than the Manhattan Bridge pictured in the article.
11. ShitBitch Carl - May 13, 2008 1:13 PM
It's Fortuna playing some video game bullshit. Why must the writer's life be plagued by such deliberate slights of fate?
Worst vendor everrrrr
12. brian's lover - May 13, 2008 1:17 PM
I love brian in ze ass alot
13. crazygut - May 13, 2008 1:18 PM
OMG a video game used a real life location as a MODEL!!! OMG!! next thing you'll say that Gotham City and Metropolis are based on New York Too!!!
14. greg - May 13, 2008 1:25 PM
@3 its easier you dont live in NYC than game be wrong
lol
15. Steve Yeah! - May 13, 2008 1:36 PM
@13 Gotham is after Chicago
16. leujin - May 13, 2008 1:37 PM
Slow news day, huh?
17. Fred - May 13, 2008 3:48 PM
@13 There actually is a real metropolis. i got put in jail there once for being a drunk without a license. anyway, they are way over the top with it. down at city hall they have a huge statue of clark kent as super man. it was xmas and some geriatric knitted it a santa hat. first thing i saw when i got out of the hooscow. a little further into town i found freaking boulder of kryptonite. lol. big ass rock they painted green in the park. it had a plaqe that said " This kryptonite has been de-ionized for supermans safety"
its right on the state line. since i couldnt get my truck out i was forced to hop a train running south over the river that tricked me into a winter hell in chicago.
bastards.
18. geese - May 13, 2008 6:43 PM
did you have to go to all that trouble JUST to say the game looks like New York??? You would have to be as stupid as that little ass that goes around here saying "FIRST" all the time to NOT think that the game guys made it look like New York.
If I lived there, I wouldn't be mad at that.
I think it's a wonderful, truthful version of NY that no one should care about.
19. Mallard - May 14, 2008 5:38 AM
the point is that it is a faithful reproduction, not that is ismodelled on a city
douche-chill!
20. boostedk20a - May 14, 2008 7:13 AM
I take it no one has ever looked at the license plates on the cars? It a freaking NY plate.
21. Drunkman - May 14, 2008 8:10 AM
It's pretty cool...they got everything. Even bums pissing on the subway.
22. p1mpu4lif3 - May 14, 2008 8:45 AM
all i kno is how to play the damn thing and all you guys are making a biggazz drama out of nothing this story sucks like we dont all kno when it first came out everyone was tryin to find out what city it was, now its old and no one cares
23. rob g - May 15, 2008 10:05 AM
The Geekologie writer reads books?
24. guate6 - May 15, 2008 3:09 PM
I think it's very well done, and I'm anxious to get it for PC when it comes out!
25. Quase - May 17, 2008 10:37 PM
Liberty City is NYC? OMG OMG OMFG!!1111111!!!1
26. Coca Cola - June 20, 2008 3:01 PM
Let me tell you... Liberty City is nothing like NYC. The cops in the game are competent, and unless you have a rocket launcher to take out the helo's that chase you, you can get busted almost every time.
Also, the dogs don't taste as good. Very chewy. The hookers are cheaper in the game, but are what better at their trade.... it only takes them a few seconds to satisfy the customer.....
27. Hotels in New York - March 1, 2010 7:56 AM
New York city looks real.