The Story of Fans Who Revealed Secrets Grand Theft Auto 5 and how they did it.

On September 30th, Craig Ovens posted a lengthy article on eurogamer.net about fans who have attempted to map Los Santos and Blaine County long before the game was released. I present to your attention the translation of this article.

In July 2012, Rockstar released the following screenshot: For most of us, this image conveys just one unambiguous fact. It says that in Grand Theft Auto V there are helicopters. At the time, this was not a curious fact. After all, Grand Theft Auto IV had helicopters too. We wanted to know about airships, fighter jets, all kinds of cool stuff. But for a limited group of fans of the game, this picture was the breakthrough they had been waiting for, the missing piece of an extremely ambitious puzzle.

"From this screenshot, we learned about almost the entire western part of the city," says Thomas Rondo, a geographer by training, better known under the pseudonym Fido_le_muet on gtaforums.com. Rondo is a dedicated member of a team of GTA fanatics who have taken on a major mapping challenge. They set out to create a map of all of Los Santos, from the airport to the harbor, from the golden sands to the highest mountain peaks, even before the game was released.

"In the first trailer, we only got a glimpse of Downtown and a glimpse of Santa Monica and Venice," explains Rondo, referring to areas of the real world. Los Angeles, which Rockstar visually scoured to create the appropriate areas of Los Santos. "But with this new [screenshot], we got to see the entire western part of the city. That makes the map what it is now."

Not surprisingly, cartography was one of the aspects that Rondo liked the most due to his profession. "The main idea that I find attractive," explains Rondo, "is to start from scratch and slowly, step by step, create something significant."

And the cartographers began to work, really slowly. The first few versions of the map were very rough sketches, stitched together from scraps of the city plan that they were able to extract from the first trailers. Rockstar rarely indulges fans with generous marketing, so the cartographers had to work with very little material: one aerial screenshot here, a three-second clip from a street corner there.

They took a close look at the parts of the screenshots that most of us didn't even notice: sun-drenched or fog-shrouded backgrounds, streets flashing past characters' shoulders or helicopter blades. It was not an easy job, but their dedication paid off in full. Even the very first rough draft of the Rondo map turned out to be a move in the right direction: a few bits of precise street layout drifting through the gaps, and even the rough outline of Blaine County are still discernible. This is a map that will subsequently be refined with each stage, as more enthusiasts pay attention and donate their time, and more geographical details will be available for analysis in the form of screenshots.

Thomas Rondo's first attempt at rendering a map of Los Santos, circa January 2012.

So how did they do it? How did they use these out-of-context scraps of information about Los Santos to create an accurate plan - a surprisingly accurate plan, as it turned out later - of a finished city? Yes, Rockstar North is certainly very secretive, but in the hands of the cartographers there was one rather serious source of information on which it is impossible to impose restrictions - Los Angeles.

Los Santos is Los Angeles. It's not just inspired by the latter. This is the real Los Angeles, transformed and perverted by the hands of Rockstar North. And while it's not perfectly accurate, parts of the city look nearly identical and are probably best viewed as a snapshot of Los Angeles' most striking features. All the tourist attractions are in place, but like a Hollywood plastic surgeon, Rockstar removes excess fat: bedroom communities, obscure landmarks, ugly city outskirts. Do this, then mix up the layout of what's left a bit before each street, shop window, or billboard goes through the brand's signature caricature filter, and you start to see what will become Los Santos.

The real Los Angeles gave mapmakers an idea of ​​where the main geographic features how areas of the city should be interconnected. This was much more helpful than the Grand Theft Auto comparison: San Andreas, which bears no more similarities to the modern incarnation than Liberty City in GTA III. However, even though fans had a rough idea of ​​what their final map would look like, they still had to take each screenshot and determine which part of the city it depicted. It does not seem that this information is enough to continue. They need something concrete, some undeniable landmarks that connect the real world to Rockstar's creation.

Attractions. Drive through Los Santos and dozens of notable features of Los Angeles served up in GTA sauce will fly past you: the Vinewood sign is the most obvious of them, but obviously that's all it's notable for us. Next on our list are the skyscrapers of Downtown.

"We defined buildings based on where they are located in real life," explains Rondo. "We identified obvious buildings like US Bank Tower, California Plaza, The Westin Bonaventure [and] started placing these buildings in relation to each other. At the very beginning, we had several maps from different authors. We borrowed ideas from each other."

Look again at the image at the beginning of this article. It's a helicopter hovering over a city that's definitely inspired by Los Angeles, but doesn't make any sense anymore, right? And here is how this screenshot looked in the eyes of cartographers:
And that's before they started scouring Google Streetview for less clear buildings.

"It's like a treasure hunt," says forum member MrThingus, who discovered and identified locations including the Powell Library and the Beverley Hills Peninsula Hotel. can be marked on your own map. Finding the sights before the game even came out gives you that feeling of excitement and excitement that comes with knowing that just a few months or weeks from now, you'll be able to drive through a virtual Los Angeles with a level of detail that few games have ever made."

This excitement, the excitement of anticipation in anticipation, pervades all the efforts of cartographers. They were Rockstar North's most dedicated fans, so eager to experience the world they knew was in store for them that they tried to bring it to life beforehand.

"I think the main motivation for a lot of us was that it was highly anticipated," says cartographer Robert, who goes by the pseudonym lxr on the forum. "You won't be able to play it, as we thought, for at least another half a year. It turned out to be even longer. How would you survive this wait? I think a lot of people did it because it was the only way to visit this map, you know? "

The mapmakers' need to visit Los Santos as soon as possible reflects the sheer, amazing power of the worlds Rockstar is creating. Beneath the surface of their edgy, cartoonish satire, Los Santos and Liberty City somehow blend real-life inspirations with the hyper-real, almost mythical New York and Los Angeles that we know from cinema. It may not be Newk and LA, but it evokes the strongest feeling of these cities, more than many other games attempt to more authentically reproduce any city.

The time spent in Liberty City inspired many to cartography, as mapmaker Koeklin, who started finding points of interest back in GTA 4, recalls.

"I didn't know much about New York," he says, "I knew that Liberty City was inspired by this city, but I had no idea how." Once, when Koeklin was replaying The Snow Storm, a mid-game mission in which Niko Bellic fights his way through the gutted innards of a hospital to recover a stolen bag with cocaine, and found myself wondering about the strangeness of the setting, what was the abandoned hospital doing so close to the glittering lights of Manhattan, okay, Algonquin?

“I thought it was strange that a huge ruined building is located on Colony Island,” he says, “and I wondered if there really was a similar place in New York. I looked in Google Maps and found it without difficulty. It's a smallpox hospital on Roosevelt Island.

"After that, I tried to check a lot of different places and was surprised to find that they are also in New York. I could already see the city like before, I felt like I rediscovered this game for myself. So I naturally identified buildings in Los Santos since the first GTA 5 trailer."

The mapmakers' fondness for these cities is an undeniable rebuttal to any argument that seeks to limit Grand Theft Auto's role to the mayhem that occurs in them. "Killing people, burning [them], grinding with car wheels has never been an interesting thing for me in GTA," concludes Koeklin, "I have a whole city that I can walk around freely. I prefer to play tourist."

The close relationship between Los Santos and Los Angeles must have been a handy tool for those who mapped the city, but what about the countryside? These cartographers have far fewer references to real world, which can be used: here Rockstar began to depict things a little less authentically relative to real life the farther they moved away from the city limits. The countryside in GTA V, the shape it takes, and its location relative to Los Santos has been a big issue for the map project for a relatively long time.

"When I became a contributor a year ago," explains Robert, "we had the city already developed, but the countryside was a big mystery." At that time, no one expected that the Alamo Sea, which is based on the Salton Sea, would be located north of Vinewood. We thought like: "Why on earth would they do that? In real life, it's in the Southwest [USA - translator's note (or mistake, the lake is southeast of Los Angeles)], it can't be!"

Before that fact was established, cartographers, however, went through countless versions. Is the map an island? Or is it several islands? Is Los Santos surrounded by endless auto-generated desert, or invisible walls? And just how vast can rural areas be, what form can they take, how will they really be?

"There were no versions about the size," says Robert, "it was damn hard to figure out what you see [in the screenshot]: how big is it? How many kilometers can it be? Does it end there?"

That's when the mappers realized that Rockstar had given them all the clues they needed.

Early on in the advertising campaign, Rockstar released the following screenshot, which, thanks to the well-known Vinewood sign, could easily be located. But more importantly, at the same time, this screenshot gives us a tantalizing glimpse of rural development outside the city. "This was the first screenshot we had that allowed us to connect the city to what was behind it." Robert remembers.
By itself, however, the screenshot was useless. The perspective and distances made it nearly impossible to judge anything, and well, it was possible to tell how the gloomy countryside behind lay in relation to anything that had already been shown. Those of us who have since played the game must have realized that the Alamo Sea might look sprawling from a distance, but at the time, the contents of that hazy shadow were the subject of fierce debate. The picture was analyzed, discussed many times over and over again, but then left alone.

Until then, Robert takes a closer look at the next screenshot, until this one was released in the same series of screenshots...
...and then things began to make sense.

“If you look at the screenshot of the helicopter you can see the fog in the background,” explains Robert, “what I saw after looking at it for quite some time is if you look at the mountain range in the farthest distance, with three or four ridges, and then look at the screenshot of Trevor, you'll notice there's a mountain here and there in the background, and I found four or five distinguishing features among those ledges that made a perfect match.

It's hard to see because the perspective is different. But once you see that these two images actually share some very unique features, you'll realize that what you see in the Vinewood helicopter screenshot is nothing but the Alamo Sea.

The methods that were used to build a map of the countryside required quite painstaking work. The mapmakers searched the screenshots for distinctive geographical features, and then tried to find the same in other screenshots, gradually building their vision of the San Andreas plan, fastening the screenshots one by one along the chain. It's not as easy as it sounds.

"I really learned a lot about perspective this year by mapping Los Santos," says Robert with a laugh. "Perspective is a terrible bastard. The map is just huge and the closer you are to the ground, the bigger it is. So all those screenshots used very different optics. Sometimes things seem too far away, and in other screenshots taken with a different focal length, they look very close to each other."

"You'll learn about perspective," he continues, "about how you create something. You'll learn about photogrammetry, which is basically the science of taking a photograph of something and then finding out the 3D properties of that object. How do you determine what it is?" straight line? People, myself included, do it wrong all the time."

It doesn't help that Rockstar manipulates their screenshots from time to time, and I'm not just talking about the moment with the oddly altered contrast:

"You can't navigate by the sun!" Robert laughs.

"A lot of our analysis was based on the direction of the sun," Rondo explains, "but we found that the sun wasn't always where it should be. In some of the screenshots, the sun was directly north."

When Rockstar didn't play god to get the lighting they needed in their screenshots, the studio nonetheless had an infuriating habit of continually refining their creation, forcing mapmakers to tweak their maps in response. And, of course, the speculative constructions of cartographers constantly ran into many options for not subordinating the natural geography of San Andreas to the laws of the real world.

"There was a case where two buildings, I think, were moved over time," says Robert, "we realized that not much had changed on the map. But you still had to be careful in your conclusions all the time. At the Alamo Sea nothing flows in. We thought there would be one - but it turned out there is not one. There is a reservoir up there, but there had to be mountains around it for it to be a full-fledged reservoir, right? No. You need to apply logic, but sometimes it's game logic, " he explained.

However, the compilers have finished off this card, as seen in Rondo's gif showing the evolution of their efforts, no doubt showing.

They were so close, in fact, that when the official map eventually leaked earlier this year, many players didn't believe the revelation: the real map was suspiciously close to the fan-made map they'd seen a few weeks earlier.

"It wasn't surprising, we were sure we were close," says Robert with a well-deserved indiscretion, "it was obvious that we did it. Because there was a trailer showing a robbery that actually showed parts of the map. More before anything leaked into the net."

The mapmakers haven't finished yet. Even now they are scouring the game world (and Google Streetview) to find every architectural composition down to the last and find its real source. It's no surprise that the mapping project has irrevocably changed the way its members relate to the game, since they certainly know the way through the intricacies of San Andreas as well as its creators.

Robert froze when I asked what it would be like to finally set foot on Los Santos and the surrounding countryside. And he told.

"Fuck...it's...really weird to actually have that option...because, you know, because there were so many places on the map where I was like, 'oh, I wish I could turn the camera on ten degrees in that screenshot"...and suddenly being able to just go there... that's great. It's really great. Being able to drive around this map is fantastic. It's exciting... The first thing I did in the game was get a car and drove around the map, very slowly." Robert explained.

He wanted to see how everything fit together, the way he knew it should be, the way he and all the other mappers had identified. But he also had a specific destination in mind.

“I knew about the railway bridge,” says Robert calmly, “we didn’t have a picture of it, we only saw both ends of it, where the highway and the railway tracks were on opposite sides of each other. It was obvious that there should be a bridge .. "It was really fun to see what it actually looked like. Nobody knew what it looked like, but I knew it was there."

For most of us, stepping out onto the tanned streets of Los Santos last week was the beginning of an adventure: the beginning of an endless exploration. But what is it for mapmakers? This was the end of their long journey home.

The attempt to create a map of Los Santos was made possible thanks to the active collaboration of many people whom I want to address. Thanks GifBrah, millionsofdeadcops, SonofUgly, J24D Smaaske, UrinalCake123. jackass2009, VickeX, sabbathfan, kendoyanar, GTAlove, JOSEPH X, BoolCaX, , darkjounin, Vegetarian Piranha, boxmonster, Death2Drugs, jbte, Choco Taco, GTADKNUT, lxr, OUPS, GTAKiwi, zombie elvis, Angeleno, vLx, omawnakw and Wayne Kerr many others for wonderful story. And good luck with GTA 6.

This section contains maps of Los Santos and Blaine County that will help you better navigate the world. gta v as when walking through a huge open world, as well as during the passage of the game. Maps, with a few exceptions, are shown in the highest possible resolution.
For ease of use, maps with an average resolution are collected in a traditional .

regular card

Plain blank map of Los Santos and Blaine County. Attention

Road map

A road map that can come in handy if you are looking for a way to get to remote corners of the world by car. Attention: very high resolution map!

Satellite map

The most useless of the maps, however, giving an idea of ​​the general geography of the GTA V world. Attention: very high resolution map!

Thematic maps

In the tradition of the GTA series, you can not spend money on weapons and body armor if you know where they just lie. Our map shows all the main pickup locations for various types of weapons and armor. Attention: very high resolution map!

Map of unique jumps

Los Santos has a very complex geography, Blaine County is located in the mountains. And all of these natural and artificial elevation changes can be used to make the vehicle feel like aircraft. Completing all unique jumps is required to complete the game in 100%. Attention: very high resolution map!

Random Encounter Map

To complete GTA V 100%, we have to complete 58 tasks of random passers-by. All meeting places are marked on our map, and the order of appearance of meeting opportunities with them will be reflected in the walkthrough of the game.

Map of random events

To complete GTA V 100%, we have to participate in 14 random events. These include robberies of shops, ATMs, armored vans and other random events. There are 57 such events in total, and all the places where you can participate in them are marked on our map. Attention: very high resolution map!

Map of toxic waste

The barrels of toxic nuclear waste that we have to collect are flooded along the coast of Los Santos and Blaine County, and we will need a submarine to collect them, so we will have to wait until about the middle of the game. After completing the mission Merryweather Heist we get a mini-submarine, we can buy a berth for it and automatically get a phone application that will help in finding barrels. On our map, all barrels are marked with numbers showing the depth of the barrels.

Bridge map

Flying under 25 bridges is necessary for a 100% completion of the game. At the same time, 50 bridges located throughout Los Santos and Blaine County are counted. With the help of our map, you can choose the ones that suit you. Attention: very high resolution map!

Flight test map

With the return of airplanes, dangerous complex tricks in the air also returned. In total, in the northern part of Los Santos, you can find 15 reasons to test your pilot skills. For a 100% completion of the game, 8 tests must be completed. Attention: map in high resolution!

Map of religious brochures

Collecting pamphlets from the Epsilon Religious Organization is not required for 100% completion of the game. But if you want to get a complete set of interesting texts, our map will help you with this. Attention: very high resolution map!

Collecting hidden packages is not required for 100% completion of the game, but it will help you get some money. At the bottom you can find suitcases with a random amount of dollars. Usually they are found near the wreckage, along with weapons pickups. Attention: very high resolution map!

Collecting submarine parts is not required to complete the game in 100%, and the reward for collecting all the wreckage is more than modest. But at the bottom, in areas where the necessary parts are lying around, there are usually a large number of equally valuable things: hidden packages, first-aid kits, weapons. Attention: very high resolution map!

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City GTA 5 - Los Santos

Description:

Los Santos is a fictional city located in the southeastern United States in Los Santos County, San Andreas. Los Santos is the setting for a GTA game for the second time, first appearing in 2004 in GTA: San Andreas. The new version of Los Santos is larger, better detailed and looks even more alive than before. The prototype of Los Santos was Los Angeles with its vast suburbs. Los Santos means "saints" in Spanish, which is an allusion to Los Angeles, which translates as "angels".

Like its prototype, Los Santos is a giant, bustling metropolis, a city of people of all sorts: from wealthy filmmakers in Vinewood to blacks from the ghetto in Strawberry. As in Liberty City from GTA IV, the time in Los Santos is the same as it was when the game was released in 2013.

Los Santos in the 2013 version can be divided into 4 large zones: North, East, West and South; each zone is divided into districts. Los Santos has three self-governing cities: Davis, Del Pierro, and Rockford Hills.

Not far from the city is Los Santos International Airport, one of the busiest airports in the world. In addition, Los Santos has a developed system public transport covering the entire city.

Los Santos - main city Los Santos County and the Los Santos metropolitan area.

Districts/quarters

Central Los Santos

The districts of central Los Santos are the heart of the city. To the north, this area is bordered by the Del Pierro Freeway, the La Puerta Freeway to the west, and the Olympic Freeway to the east. This part of the city is characterized by the highest level of urbanization, here are the tallest skyscrapers in the city, including the Labyrinth Bank Tower.

• Downtown Los Santos (Downtown Los Angeles)
• Textile City (Fashion District)
• Mission Row (Skid Row)
• Pillbox Hill (Bunker Hill)
• Lijn Square (Pershing Square)

North Los Santos

North Los Santos consists of neighborhoods that stretch from Downtown to Vinewood Hills on the northern edge of the city. This is the place of life of the richest people in Los Santos, large private houses are located here - the most prestigious and expensive housing in the city. Among other celebrities, Poppy Mitchell lives in North Los Santos. Michael De Santa's home is also located here.

• Alta (Chinatown)
• Burton (Beverly Grove)
• Rockford Hills (Beverly Hills and Century City)
• Vinewood (Hollywood)
• Richman (Bel Air and Holmby Hills)
• West Vinewood (West Hollywood)
• Vinewood Hills (Hollywood Hills)
• Downtown Vinewood (Downtown Hollywood)
• Havik (Melrose)

South Los Santos

South Los Santos includes areas that are considered independent cities, their neighborhoods stretch south from Downtown Los Santos. South Los Santos is home to the city's poorest residents. South Central is where you can find the cheapest accommodation. Garbage is constantly piled on the sides of the local streets, and gangs, like the one called the Families, live on the streets themselves. The Port and Docks of Los Santos are also considered part of South Los Santos. The brightest areas of South Los Angeles, Inglewood and Long Beach, which were in GTA:SA, are mostly absent in GTA V. However, their appearance is partially recreated in other areas of Los Santos.

• Strawberry (Crenshaw and Inglewood)
• Davis (Compton)
• Ranch (Watts and Florence)
• Chamberlain Hills (Baldwin Village)
• La Puerta (San Pedro)
• Banning (Wilmington)
• Elysian Island (Terminal Island)
• Terminal (Port of Long Beach)

East Los Santos

The western border of East Los Santos is the Los Santos Freeway and the city sewer, in the east this zone rests on the Tataviam Mountains and mountain range Palomino. East Los Santos is mostly inhabited by Hispanics, most of them immigrants from Mexico. As well as South Los Santos, the East is infested with criminals, tourists are warned to stay away from there even during the day. This place contrasts sharply with the wealthy North (East Vinewood and Mirror Park), where the elite lives and middle class. East Central (El Burro Heights, Murrieta Heights, and La Mesa) is inhabited by workers, while heavy industries are located in the southern areas.

• East Vinewood (Silver Lake and Eco Park)
• Mirror Park (Eco-Park Lake)
• East Los Santos (East Los Angeles)
• La Mesa (Arts District)
• El Burro Heights (Signal Hill)
• Murrieta Heights (Boyle Heights)
• Cypress Flats (Vernon)
• Murrieta Oil Field (Long Beach Oil Field)

West Los Santos

West Los Santos includes blocks to the west of Downtown and all the way to Pacific Bluffs, that is, to the western border of the city. West Los Santos is not as chic as North Los Santos, but still a very decent place. In West Los Santos are beautiful beaches which are always full of people. The famous Pleasure Pier is located here, where you can find attractions such as roller horns or even a Ferris wheel.

• Little Seoul (Korea Town)
• Morningwood (Westwood)
• Del Perro (Santa Monica)
• Pacific Bluffs (Pacific Palisades)
• Backlot City (Culver City)
• Vespucci Canals (Venice Canals)
• Vespucci (Venice Beach)
• Puerta del Sol (Marina del Rey)

Attractions

Skyscrapers and corporate offices

Los Santos does not have the same urban landscape as the famous Liberty City, but the offices of many well-known companies are located here, as well as the headquarters of the FBI and the CIA (Central Intelligence Agency, its prototype is the CIA). Most of the city's high-rise buildings are located in Downtown, the rest are built in the surrounding areas of Little Seoul and Rockford Hills.

• Three Alta Tower (Tower 801)
• Arcadius Business Center (Hotel Westin-Bonaventure)
• FRB Headquarters (Hotel California Plaza One)
• SDG Headquarters (Hotel California Plaza Two)
• Little Seoul Tower (Equitable Life Building)
• Lombank Building (100 Wilshire Boulevard)
• Lombank Tower (Figueroa Tower)
• Maze Bank Tower (US Bank Tower)
• Mile High Club (J.W. Marriott and Ritz-Carlton hotels) (Unfinished)
• Penris Building (Wedbush Securities office)
• Richards Majestic Tower (Constellation Place)
• Schlongberg Sachs Center (Citigroup Center)
• Union Depository Tower (Mellon Bank Center and Gus Company Tower)
• Weasel Plaza (Fox Plaza)
• VIVAN Tower (Building 5900 Wilshire Boulevard and Aon Center)

Hotels

Los Santos, especially the northern part, is known for its upscale hotels. Hotels are built there in rows; among them is the one owned by the wealthy Fan Krastenburg family.

• Banner Hotel & Spa (Fairmont Miramar Hotel)
• Hotel Emissary (Millennium Biltmore Hotel)
• Generic Hotel (Standard Hotel)
• Gentry Manor Hotel (Chateau Marmont Hotel)
• Hotel Juca Palace (Hotel Figueroa)
• Rockford Dorset Hotel (Beverly Hills Hotel)
• Von Krastenburg Hotel (Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel)

residential buildings

In addition to private houses, there are many large apartment buildings in the city. As a rule, only wealthy people can afford apartments in such a building, prices for an apartment in them reach many thousands of dollars, with the exception of those located in the cheap neighborhoods of South Los Angeles.

• Dream Tower (Wilshire Christian Manor)
• Eclipse Towers (Sierra Towers)
• Cayton Towers (Central Plaza)
• Rancho Housing Complex (Nickerson Gardens)
• Tinzel towers (shortened Sierra towers)
• Weasel Plaza (Fox Plaza)

Leisure and sports

Los Santos is famous not only for the film industry, but also for sports. Many teams in different sports have been created here, about which fans argue on a life wader.

Teams

• Boars Baseball Club (Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim)
• Los Santos Squeezers
• Los Santos Pounders
• Baseball team Los Santos Corkers (Los Angeles Dodgers)
• Fud baseball team
• Los Santos Kings (Los Angeles Kings)
• Los Santos Benders
• Bookworms, Los Santos University football team
• Los Santos Panic Basketball Team (Los Angeles Lakers)
• San Andreas Magnetic
• Los Santos Jardineros

• Del Perro Plaza (Portofino Plaza)
• Los Santos Golf Club (Los Angeles Country Club)
• Maze Bank Arena (Inglewood Forum and Memorial Coliseum)
• Pleasure Pier (Pacific Park)
• Yacht Club Puerta del Sol (Marina City Club)
• Rockford Plaza (Beverly Center)
• Vinewood Chalice (Hollywood Chalice)
• Vinewood Speedway (Hollywood Park Circuit)

Art and culture

Before there was the Internet, to watch a movie, the people of Los Santos went to the cinemas. These theaters have been in use since the 20th century and it is to them that Vinewood films owe their fame.

• Betsy O'Neill Pavilion (Dorothy Chandler Pavilion)
• Doppler Cinema (Hollywood Pacific Cinema)
• Kortz Center (Getty Center)
• Oriental Theater (TCL Chinese Theatre)
• Gallery fine arts San Andreas
• Sisyphus Theater (Greek Theatre)
• Ten Cent Theater (Million Dollar Theatre)
• Tivoli Cinema (Fox Bruin Theatre)
• Theater Valdez (Wiltern Theatre)
• Wyrligig Theater (El Capitan Theatre)
• Weasel Morningwood (Fox Theatre, Westwood Village)

government buildings

At that distant time, when Del Perro and Roford Hills were independent, there were several city halls. Now they do not serve as administrative buildings and are just sights.

• Davis City Hall (Comptom City Hall)
• Del Pierro City Hall (Santa Monica City Hall)
• Los Santos City Hall (Los Angeles City Hall)
• Rockford Hills City Hall (Beverly Hills City Hall)

In addition to the above, there are several other places in Los Santos that tourists like to visit. They give this city its chic look.

• Ranch Towers (Watts Towers)
• International airport building
• Tequila la la (Whiskey e Go-Go)
• Vinewood Boulevard (Hollywood Boulevard)
• WINEWOOD Sign (HOLLYWOOD Sign)

Infrastructure

Sea port and airport

Los Santos has one of the busiest airports in the world. People arrive and leave Los Santos every day, but the infrastructure can hardly cope with such a large flow of passengers. The port is mainly used for the import of Chinese goods and suspicious cargo.

• Los Santos International Airport (LA)
• Port of Los Santos (Port of Los Angeles)

Important roads/streets

Los Santos is also known for its awfully dense traffic and poorly designed roads. It is said that the traffic in Los Santos is so slow that one woman decided to use the car in turns with a dead man (?). However, Los Santos has a developed system of elevated highways, federal highways and highways passing through the city. People use them day and night.

• Freeway La Puerta (Interstate 110)
• Elysian Fields Freeway (California State Freeway 47)
• Los Santos Freeway (Hollywood Freeway)
• Del Pierro Freeway (Santa Monica Freeway)
• Olympic Freeway (Glen Andersen Freeway/Centennial Freeway)
• Palomino Freeway (Long Beach Freeway)
• Senior Freeway (California State Freeway 111)
• Great Ocean Turnpike (East Coast Turnpike)
• Mantooine View Drive
• Jamestown Avenue
• Portola Drive (Rodeo Drive)
• Marlow Drive (Mulholland Drive)
• Bay City Avenue
• West Eclipse Boulevard (Sunset Boulevard)
• South Rockword Drive
• Panorama Drive
• Nikola Avenue
• Forum Drive (Colosseum Street)
• Carson Avenue
• Vespucci Boulevard (Venice Boulevard)
• Strawberry Avenue (Crenshaw Boulevard)
• Vinewood Boulevard (Hollywood Boulevard)

Transport

There are many ways to get around Los Santos: there is a system of wide highways and several smaller highways, equipped with a system of exits and arrivals throughout the city. The city also has its own fast travel network called Los Santos Transit. In addition, buses can be seen among city traffic. Like most cities, traffic in Los Santos is managed by the local Traffic Control System, which monitors traffic lights and traffic.

Los Santos International Airport is located in the south of Los Santos and is the only airport in the city.

Education

Many schools and other educational institutions have been built in Los Santos. The most famous is the University of San Andreas, where the most privileged students receive prestigious professions. There is also a Los Santos junior school for children, where they gain the basic skills they need in life. Sue Murry used to teach here. The city of Davis has a high school.

• Davis High School (Compton High School)
• Los Santos Junior High
• San Andreas State University (University of California, Los Angeles)

healthcare

Los Santos has a wide variety of hospitals and medical centers. Most of the elite hospitals here are like Mount Zone Medical Center, but there are also low-cost hospitals, such as St. Fiacre Hospital.

• Central Los Santos Medical Center (Los Angeles County Hospital)
• Eclipse Medical Center (Sunset Medical Center)
• Mount Zone Medical Center (Cedars-Sinai Medical Center)
• St. Fiacre Hospital

Police

Los Santos Police Department

The Los Santos Police Department is "decommissioned" from the Los Angeles City Police Department. Their motto: "Submit and survive" is written on their cars and reflected in their behavior. Unlike the Liberty City cops, they drive the new Waypeed Patrol Cars and Waypeed Interceptors, not those sedan-based cars. Merit (Merit) from the last part. They also use a police helicopter. The Los Santos Police Department is accused of corruption and racism, just like its real-life counterpart.

National Security Service The National Security Service is also located in Los Santos, their building is located near International Airport, and the main headquarters in the Palomino mountains in the northeast of the city. NSOB goes to the place where dangerous criminal activity occurs.

criminal justice

This topic is not disclosed in the game as it should be, but there are courts in Los Santos. At the Weasel News radio mentions the Supreme Court of Los Santos.

Crime

Los Santos is a stronghold of crime. Many areas of Los Santos are suffering from high level crime, especially the south. Since the 90s, the city has been flooded with drug dealers. The streets sell methamphetamine, crack and marijuana, as well as a new drug called Toilet Cleaner.

In addition to drug trafficking, the city suffers from crime, murder and gang wars in the southern areas (mainly Chamberlain Hills, Davis and Strawberry). Most of the crimes are committed by the two oldest Negro street gangs: the Families and the Ballas. They are also involved in illegal trade. weapons, including assault rifles And pistols - machine guns.

In addition to street gangs, influential UCPs operate in the city. Marabunta Grande, a powerful crime syndicate from El Salvador, is expanding its influence into Los Santos. They have a tough conflict with other gangs in San Andreas. Marabunta Grande are also associated with the drug trade.

The problems of the city are not limited to street crime. Local authorities are highly susceptible to corruption, not excluding the police. In addition, the Los Santos Police Department is known for its brutality; a case is known when they shot a dog. According to some sources, local police officers use the services of prostitutes, which explains the existence of such a large number prostitutes in the city.

The GTA 5 map is one of the main advantages of the game, which has been recognized as one of the best of all time, and that says a lot.

Wide seamless world is filled with a huge number of interesting places. Hundreds of hours will have to be spent on their full study, but the pleasure is worth it.

You can learn more about such locations, as well as other thematic information, from this article.

General form

The GTA 5 map rightfully deserves the title of "perfect", given the setting and experience of the previous parts. The developers knowingly created the fifth numbered part in the series for a long time. The game world turned out to be really saturated. In the south of the mainland there is a huge city of Los Santos, which was created under inspiration from a real prototype in the form of Los Angeles. This is a real criminal center, which absorbed some parts of the metropolis, but did not become an exact copy.

General view of the GTA V map

The creators have added many unique elements, which makes the settlement look quite fresh. The map in GTA 5 of the remaining parts is a little developed territory with a variety of natural landscapes. Along the edges there are beaches, in the middle there is a hilly and flat relief with vegetation. Roads of various kinds cross the locations along and across.

Various secrets

Random events often appear on the map in GTA 5, which adds a lot of variety to the gameplay. Even when traveling on a mission or a regular walk, you can encounter an interesting mission that you want to complete. By default, this list includes the robbery of ATMs, shops and collection trucks, but more diverse events are also provided. It could be chasing a thief or helping a drunk girl. Most of them are concentrated in the center of Los Santos, in the northeast of the city, as well as a little beyond locality from the west side.

Collecting car robbery

You can often encounter them in the central sandy part, where the lake is located on the GTA map, as well as on the ring road. Unique vehicles can also be found in the vast game world. Four points are centered on the sandy part of the lake location, which is marked in yellow. Two towards the sea from the lake on the east side. One car can be found in the north west coast across from small islands. In the same part, but already in the city, you can come across three unique types of equipment.

Other Interests

In GTA 5, the map provides extensive opportunities for exploration. At first, players will be interested in finding new parts and just traveling, but when it comes to a specific goal, it is better to use hints. For example, lovers of stunts on transport should know where they are best places for jumping. Most of them are concentrated in the central and southeastern parts of the city. There are also several places near the lake on the sandy location and the northern coast.

Tricks around the city by car

If a player wants to know where random encounters are located on the map in GTA 5, then it is enough to explore the center and northern part of Los Santos. There are just a huge number of them. Several can be found on the same side, but outside the city, as well as near the lake in the center of the map. These encounters allow you to receive a unique task from interesting characters. Often in such missions, an unexpected ending is provided, which can be considered an additional bonus. In total, there are 58 such tasks, and to complete the game 100%, you need to do at least twenty. For more convenience in orienteering, you can download a GTA 5 map with places of random meetings.

Remaining secrets

In GTA 5, the submarine parts map may be of interest only to those users who have already tried themselves in most activities and completed the storyline. Basically, they are concentrated in the southeastern part of Los Santos near the port, but you will have to dive to the bottom to find them. The second accumulation in the water opposite the convex island part on the west coast, the rest in the north and northeast. A map of hidden packages will come in handy for those guys who are looking for interesting ways to get rich.

Submarine Parts Map

They are hidden in the water along the entire contour of the island, some places run together with the wreckage of a submarine. One package is in the center of the lake. Finding places where you can skydive will be more fun. There are thirteen such points in total, and four of them are located in the central part of the river, which enters the ocean from the western part of the lake. Two more locations in the city center, three locations from the northern part. The rest are scattered around the map. Fans of air tricks need to live in the central, northern, and northwestern parts of the city. It is here that there are fifteen missions to perform a wide variety of pirouettes in the air.

Traces of the presence of aliens

The spaceship in GTA 5 cannot be assembled as a personal vehicle, but collecting UFO wreckage is provided for those who wish to complete the game 100%. This activity can be considered one of the most difficult, because the particles are not large and are hidden in various places. It can be the interior of an old car, the roofs of a building, or the most inconspicuous nooks and crannies.

Map with spaceship wreckage

It takes a lot of time to collect them all, but this will be a good opportunity to distinguish yourself, because not too many players were able to find a spaceship in GTA 5. The map is extensive and should always be kept in front of your eyes. It is difficult to single out even approximate guidelines here. In the city of Los Santos, they are located closer to the center, north and southeast. A dozen parts are hidden outside the city from the northwestern part. About the same on the east side of the lake. The rest are evenly distributed throughout the territory of 108 square kilometers, which greatly complicates the task. To find all fifty will have to spend a lot of hours.

military shelter

The military base in GTA 5 on the map is located on the west coast and clearly stands out from the environment. This is because there are no more buildings in the area and the massive complex immediately becomes a target. You can also find an object in the "Reconnaissance" mission, if you choose the passage option called "Sea Adventure". Other players should be aware that the entrance is on the southeast side of the complex. If you fly up from the air, then the player will begin to fire artillery. The military base in GTA 5 is quite an interesting point, inside which there is a huge amount of military vehicles.

Military base of Los Santos

For example, powerful flying vehicles type cargo aircraft Titan, P996 Lazer fighter and Cargobob helicopters, as well as Buzzard. From cars, it should be noted the Crusader military jeep, the Barracks truck and the Rhino tank known from all previous parts of the series. Even just riding them will bring unprecedented pleasure. When storming the base, the main thing is to prepare enough. The character must be pumped, the supply of weapons is inexhaustible, but it is better to master some kind of helicopter and start shelling from the mountain. Just like that, no one will give the equipment into the hands of the player.