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[BoneZ.NY]

wow the trailer is sooo acurate which measn that the city might be that way too I CANT WAITT!!!

[masser120]

Holy sh*t! That really rocks dude!

Only the fact that you can actually lay out the map of Liberty City, by looking at the trailer images!

[Timmons55]

Guys this is awesome!!! Keep up the brilliant work and we may have the map before rockstar give us it, its looking very accurate with the evidence from the trailer!! KEEP IT UP!!!

[ExtermelySmartMan]

Yes. Keep it up and we'll have a square mile of map in no time.

[The Wanderer]

Now that we know there will be 5 area's (and presumably 4/5 islands) to the new LC map, does anyone fancy having a crack at rigiing up a possible layout?

If I were to do it (I'm useless with stuff like this!) I'd suggest using the original GTA map as the guide....

TW

[dronezero]

Well we've got some more pictures to work with. I found the pictures that may be useful:







I also started identifying buildings on one of the pictures. There are some new buildings. Also it seems that the Hearst Tower is missing from this view. It should be visible, but I don't see it.


42 = 3 World Financial Center (possibly 2 World Financial Center)
43 = Wolworth Building
44 = Municipal Building

[Tibatonk]

Great job on the Downtown buildings, dronezero.

The Hearst Tower might be the somewhat lighter structure in front of the Viacom Building. Although it's hard to tell if that even is a seperate building.

As for the two buildings to the left of the picture, I believe those could be the Trump International Tower to the left, and the other one might be the Time Warner Center although with only one tower instead of two.

[Tibatonk]

Time Warner Center (minus one tower)



Trump International Tower

[SI MoViE StAr]

Well since there's only Liberty City in this one, that means no planes or commuter rail so I'm hoping that they'll at least put in some depth to the subway/elevated system then...including possibly "stealing" them. Rockstar is located in NYC and I'm sure it wouldn't be that hard..

Here's the real map...
http://subway.umka.org/maps/new-york.gif

[Rown]

I want Metrocards... and a mini-game where you make money by effectively scalping them. Because buying metrocards from scalpers is fun and family friendly.


I really hope the tram over the bridge is fun...

Rown

[dronezero]

Nothing really new in this photo. Just an east facing view from Times Square.

2 = Conde Nast Building
4 = ABC Studios
8 = Unknown Building

This next image though does confirm that you were right Tibatonk. From the position of the Trump building here we can be sure that the building that was in the sun from the closing shot of the trailer was not the Trump Building, and was actually the Woolworth Building.

35 = 1 New York Plaza
34 = Unknown Building
33 = Unknown Building
20 = Trump Building

[padmoi]

QUOTE (dronezero @ Apr 12 2007, 01:12)

This next image though does confirm that you were right Tibatonk. From the position of the Trump building here we can be sure that the building that was in the sun from the closing shot of the trailer was not the Trump Building, and was actually the Woolworth Building.

never doubt the great tibatonk.

just when i thought you guys had hit a pinultimate brick wall....

[geomy]

penultimate. and i think you were looking for "proverbial."

[Magic_Al]

QUOTE (The Wanderer @ Apr 11 2007, 10:13)

Now that we know there will be 5 area's (and presumably 4/5 islands) to the new LC map, does anyone fancy having a crack at rigiing up a possible layout? If I were to do it (I'm useless with stuff like this!) I'd suggest using the original GTA map as the guide.... TW

Given the named boroughs in the Game Informer article and the fact that the portion of New Jersey that makes sense to be there is the part across the river from Manhattan (eastern Hudson and Bergen Counties), the GTA4 map may as well be laid out like reality. This is my guess about the maximum area that could be represented:

(original map)
The magazine says the "scale" of the game won't be much different than San Andreas. If so, the GTA4 islands will be scaled way down because the real-life map would be over 25 times the San Andreas map. However, if they were doing Manhattan only, that (and nothing else) could fit almost life-size on a San Andreas-sized map. The fact that Manhattan is obviously simplified hints at a lot of the game map being used for the other boroughs.

[Tibatonk]

Updated map:

[IceCreamMan]

Great work you all did fantastic jobs, I know this is off topic but in the mag where there any signs of housing projects ?

[427]

Damn you guys have done a great job on the map. it'd be good to see if it really turned out like this.

[Warcheif]

QUOTE (Magic_Al @ Apr 12 2007, 03:04)

QUOTE (The Wanderer @ Apr 11 2007, 10:13) Now that we know there will be 5 area's (and presumably 4/5 islands) to the new LC map, does anyone fancy having a crack at rigiing up a possible layout? If I were to do it (I'm useless with stuff like this!) I'd suggest using the original GTA map as the guide.... TW Given the named boroughs in the Game Informer article and the fact that the portion of New Jersey that makes sense to be there is the part across the river from Manhattan (eastern Hudson and Bergen Counties), the GTA4 map may as well be laid out like reality. This is my guess about the maximum area that could be represented: (original map) The magazine says the "scale" of the game won't be much different than San Andreas. If so, the GTA4 islands will be scaled way down because the real-life map would be over 25 times the San Andreas map. However, if they were doing Manhattan only, that (and nothing else) could fit almost life-size on a San Andreas-sized map. The fact that Manhattan is obviously simplified hints at a lot of the game map being used for the other boroughs.

I've been said this.

[Stefan.]

Wow, this is just...

...amazing. You need more karma. Keep it up guys; I'm looking forward to compare the results.

[Warmaster]

Whow! Great job, i realy wonder how big the map turnes out.