The Grand Theft Auto V Trailer

I drive past one of the locations shown in this trailer every day in real life and got a real kick out of recognizing it. Something about the marriage of real life and fantasy in an open world sandbox game like Grand Theft Auto is quite appealing.

Still, I kinda wish Rockstar would just use “Los Angeles” as the city name with real landmarks, rather than resorting to approximations such as “Los Santos” and “Vinewood.” I get that they’re just creating caricatures of actual cities in their GTA games, but so what? Last I checked, the First Amendment was still in effect.

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