What part of LA is Los Santos based on?

There are several areas in Los Santos, the major ones are Blaine County, Downtown, Little Seoul, South Los Santos, Vespucci Beach and Rockford Hills. Practically all are based on real-life neighborhoods surrounding L.A. like downtown Los Angeles, Koreatown, South Central, Venice Beach and Beverly Hills.

What area is Los Santos based on?

Los Santos is a fictional city in the GTA universe, loosely based on Los Angeles and other California Coast cities.

What part of Los Angeles is Los Santos?

The area is based on Eastside Los Angeles and South Central Los Angeles. The various neighborhoods include: East Beach (Long Beach, Beach Cities), and Playa del Seville (San Pedro, Harbor City)

Where is Los Santos inspired from?

Los Santos is based on Los Angeles, California and its greater metropolitan area. Los Santos is Spanish for "The Saints", a play on "The Angels", which is the translation of Los Angeles.

Is Los Santos based on Compton?

However, it is still in the Los Santos metropolitan area, similar to the real-life city of Compton, California, on which the city is based.

Grand Theft Auto vs. Real Life

Is Grove Street Bloods or Crips?

The Grove Street Families is based on the Crips, an African American street gang in South Central LA. They are one of the largest and most violent street gangs organizations in the United States. The gang, founded in 1969, has been associated with murders, robberies, and drug dealing, to name a few crimes.

What area is Grove Street in real-life?

A historic street in New York City's West Village, part of the larger Greenwich Village. A fictional street in the 2004 video game Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas and the 2013 video game Grand Theft Auto V, which is the namesake of the Grove Street Families gang in the former.

What city is Liberty City based on?

Liberty City, based on New York City, is one of the three original cities introduced in Grand Theft Auto. It is the first setting available to the player.

What city is Vice City based on?

Vice City is based on Miami.

What part of LA is GTA based on?

There are several areas in Los Santos, the major ones are Blaine County, Downtown, Little Seoul, South Los Santos, Vespucci Beach and Rockford Hills. Practically all are based on real-life neighborhoods surrounding L.A. like downtown Los Angeles, Koreatown, South Central, Venice Beach and Beverly Hills.

How accurate is the GTA map to LA?

The game is much more scaled down than the real place, so all of the roads are definitely not there, and neither are many many places. [...] You also have to understand that it is a game, so taking note on the general grid layout of LA streets, Rockstar did in the end design the roads to fit their game.

What is Paleto Bay based on?

However, Paleto Bay contains other elements of inland southern Californian towns such as Gorman and Somis, and some buildings are directly influenced by their real-life counterparts in towns such as Lamont, Fillmore, and Piru.

What is Vespucci Beach in real life?

Vespucci Beach is based on Venice Beach, Los Angeles, which appears in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas as Verona Beach.

What is the Maze Bank Arena in real life?

Trivia. The arena's old name was most likely "The Forum", as seen in the box offices. This would also be a reference to real life venue The Forum and to its 3D Universe counterpart, the Los Santos Forum.

What cities are in San Andreas in real-life?

Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas takes place in 1992 within the fictional US state of San Andreas – based upon sections of California and Nevada as seen in the early 1990s – which consists of three main cities: Los Santos (based on Los Angeles), San Fierro (based on San Francisco), and Las Venturas (based on Las Vegas).

Is Vice City based on Scarface?

The game's plot is based on multiple real-world people and events in Miami such as Cubans, Haitians, and biker gangs, the 1980s crack epidemic, the Mafioso drug lords of Miami, and the dominance of glam metal. The game was also influenced by the films and television of the era, most notably Scarface and Miami Vice.

What is Vice City in real-life?

Vice City is based on Miami, which was a major cocaine trans-shipment point for South America during the 1980s.

Where is Trevor's house?

Description. Located on a barren lot at Zancudo Avenue at the north-east of Sandy Shores, this trailer serves as Trevor Philips' primary residence.

What is Sandy Shores based on?

Sandy Shores is based on the towns around the Salton Sea in California, such as Desert Shores and Bombay Beach. Sandy Shores also shares some inspiration from Niland and Joshua Tree, two other towns in California (which are referenced on the city's street names).

Who are Ballas in real life?

The Ballas are based on The Bloods, but their gang colors are based on The Grape Street Crips.

What part of Los Santos is Compton?

Ganton is a deprived district in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas located in the eastern part of Los Santos, San Andreas and based on real life Compton.

Where is Compton in San Andreas?

The name is a play on real life city Compton, California, located within Los Angeles County.