They got the buildings and tourist attractions almost right, but because they didn't want to make the map 1 to 1 in scale so it could be run on the PS3 and PS4 without crashing/massive fps drop (while also cutting travel times and increasing the chaos). So the solution was to pick out all the iconic sections of Hollywood, NYC, San Andreas and bring it all closer together, then just fill in the blanks with random buildings and land features. Voila, you have a perfectly sized example of American culture to blow shit up in.
@@WallaceBernsteinCIA No bro, LA and LA County have too much residental areas to be replicated 1:1, no missions would be enough to fill this much map.
Those suburbs are the easiest part to make. Just model 1 or 2 houses and use your copy and paste tool to place endless rows of them in the game. Looks just as generic as they do in real life.
Yeah me too, I wish the games in future are so detailed that they are 100% identical to the real life. Hardware limitations are holding the developers back
@@rohan_3128 i think the workload of replicating cities 1:1 would hold developers back moreso than hardware limitations lol the entire gta 5 map would be a neighborhood in los angeles.
I love GTA V because it’s based off of a real place and the locations look identical. I have been to Los Angeles many times since I live 1 hour away and every time I go there, I imagine about GTA V and how similar everything looks like the game.
Majority of GTA games are based off real cities, yeah the older games weren't much similar to the real counterpart. But the HD era games are pretty much identical.
@@rohan_3128Vice City and San Andreas were pretty similar to their real life counterparts. GTA 3 tried something different though, as Liberty City (based on New York City) there was a mixture of NYC, Philadelphia and Chicago, making the city pure fiction just like Anywhere City from GTA 2 (although it's not exactly a parody of a real American city). This is the technical reason for the same city looking so different in GTA 4, as 4 was basically NYC with another name.
@@extremeboss5282 yeah, it started from Vice city which wasn't that accurate but still captured Miami strip, and San Andreas is just another level with 3 big cities in one game
Living in LA seeing this map has always been trippy. Looks just like home fr. Except the sun is way brighter and theres way less shadows everywhere because of it
Man after going to Hollywood a few times and now owning a vehicle, gta V really captured the California essence and LA vibes. People complain about the crazy npc driving but that’s honestly the reality. Lol, anyways I wish vinewood got some kinda visual map update. The area honestly feels just too lonely, isolated and not filled with loud horns, randomness of strangers, the Hollywood strip life…. I get it’s a game and has its engine limits but cmon. We need that before gta vi
Honestly because of GTA V I started getting interested into Los Angeles. Then I started reading Michael Conelly and Raymond Chandler. Nobody should say that gaming is bad for your education.
Great comparison video! I really enjoyed your take on the GTA 5 Real vs Game concept. It's impressive how you recreated those moments with such detail and accuracy. Keep up the fantastic work, and I'm looking forward to seeing more content like this on your channel. If you're interested, I also recently did a GTA 5 Real vs Game video on my channel. It would be awesome if we could exchange ideas and tips for creating engaging content. Keep rocking the gaming world!
GTA V somehow took one of the largest urban sprawls in the world and condensed it to the size of a very small US city while still keeping the specific feel of many areas. GTAs version LA of course on the whole doesn’t capture the intensity of the real life, but it’s a fantastic pastiche of dozens of its neighborhoods, and it is faithful to them geographically. With some exceptions - Santa Monica beach/ pier in GTA V feels practically 1-1. I imagine it’s smaller but all of the details are there.
@@Perich29 I hope it will be vice, los santos, san fransico (idk the name of the city in gta San Andreas), and liberty city all together in one map. But too bad they will stick with vice city
This will be a go to video in 4 years. The United States of America is hosting the 2028 Summer Olympic Games in Los Angelious. It will be interesting to see how my knowledge of the city from this game, and the locations it’s based on, will appear in important detail for when the venues are shown.
5:45 The USA are like a Janus-head. Tinseltown-glamour on the south of the mountain and deserted desperation on the north of the mountains. Its interesting how GTA V was recreating these sharp differences so realisticaly.
the unfortunate thing about video games is that everything looks like it's made of cheap plastic, from the buildings to the human skin. The only way some games try to replicate some materials is by making them shine use RTX lighting and reflections, but still most materials look weird in even top tier games
I know this is a dumb question but is it possible to make an exact map replica of California in a decent amount of time? I figure it would be 100% harder to make everything.
Is it better to have side by side pictures, or one picture above the other? Or no difference? Trying to decide on the way I'm going to present a project of my own, thanks in advance for the inputs.
Looks very similar !
Yes
Yeah😂😂
@@後-g2ddo music in the next thug life video
Yes
6th and yeah
one of the few places where I wouldn't get lost even though I've never been there before
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🤣🤣🤣 big facts!
Lol fr
Yah GTA 5 pipe hai
lmao you will get lost a lot if you end up going there
You forgot the most important attraction - Rockford and beverly hills ( Michael de Santa's house )
The game looks more real than some pictures. Rockstar set the bar so high with this game. Truly a generational leap in media.
Can't believe this game is 10 yrs old 😢
Reply back in 2025
@@rohan_3128yes but it got many updated versions till it become realistic
imagine GTA 6 in Florida
I can't wait for gta6 release. I'll even buy ps5 only to play in release day. Just one more year
0:03 they finished construction on that tower before gta 6
They got the buildings and tourist attractions almost right, but because they didn't want to make the map 1 to 1 in scale so it could be run on the PS3 and PS4 without crashing/massive fps drop (while also cutting travel times and increasing the chaos). So the solution was to pick out all the iconic sections of Hollywood, NYC, San Andreas and bring it all closer together, then just fill in the blanks with random buildings and land features. Voila, you have a perfectly sized example of American culture to blow shit up in.
No game map will ever be 1:1, LA County has too much uninteresting suburbia to be made 1:1.
Some of these look almost way to identical to the irl. Rockstar game designers did their research 24/7 focused on every single pixels
@@gabrielmartines3510 i feel like a hypothetical 1:1 game could be fun if enough side missions and shit are involved
@@WallaceBernsteinCIA No bro, LA and LA County have too much residental areas to be replicated 1:1, no missions would be enough to fill this much map.
Those suburbs are the easiest part to make. Just model 1 or 2 houses and use your copy and paste tool to place endless rows of them in the game. Looks just as generic as they do in real life.
Wow the real distance from the observatory to the city amazed me😂
Yeah me too, I wish the games in future are so detailed that they are 100% identical to the real life. Hardware limitations are holding the developers back
@@rohan_3128 i think the workload of replicating cities 1:1 would hold developers back moreso than hardware limitations lol
the entire gta 5 map would be a neighborhood in los angeles.
Me3
I'm literally working inside the Observatory right now as I watch this on my computer.
@@rohan_3128CONSOLES ARE
I love GTA V because it’s based off of a real place and the locations look identical. I have been to Los Angeles many times since I live 1 hour away and every time I go there, I imagine about GTA V and how similar everything looks like the game.
Majority of GTA games are based off real cities, yeah the older games weren't much similar to the real counterpart. But the HD era games are pretty much identical.
They do not look identical but some are pretty close...
@@rohan_3128Vice City and San Andreas were pretty similar to their real life counterparts. GTA 3 tried something different though, as Liberty City (based on New York City) there was a mixture of NYC, Philadelphia and Chicago, making the city pure fiction just like Anywhere City from GTA 2 (although it's not exactly a parody of a real American city). This is the technical reason for the same city looking so different in GTA 4, as 4 was basically NYC with another name.
@@extremeboss5282 yeah, it started from Vice city which wasn't that accurate but still captured Miami strip, and San Andreas is just another level with 3 big cities in one game
This is the reason I think America is great. They literally build a real city from a game.
Not exactly the same city but 60 to 70 % identical
@@vishnuharshith07 it's a joke
Looking forward to recognizing Miami locations in GTA6 when I visit.
You've already watched GTA 6 trailer right?
@@Theoryofanything. Yup, can’t wait
Probably the best video comparing locations so far! Well made.
Damn bro this Los Angeles city looks just like the map from gta v
Yeas
It surely does. The city in the game was so perfect that they wanted to build a real one.
Imagine GTA VI how similiar it's going to be to Florida! Mindblowing
You did an amazing job. Most of the angles you used for these locations matched perfectly. I know this took a lot of time to pull off.
It’s amazing how big Los Angeles is when it’s in the desert. The city has no right being that impressive yet it is.😊
And it just keeps growing. My area by museam row has multiple buildings and metro stations popping up.
This is honestly one of the biggest accomplishments in gaming
Its crazy low Los Angeles copied Los Santos 🔥🔥
its crazy how to observatory IRL is soo far away from Downtown Los Santos
Rockstar took all the time and effort to recreate Los Angeles into Los Santos, they are gonna do the same thing, recreate Miami in Vice City
Just visited Cali after playing GTA for years. I felt like I'd been there before because of GTA.
They’ve done a great job
Yes an Amazing job !❤
meh
Living in LA seeing this map has always been trippy. Looks just like home fr. Except the sun is way brighter and theres way less shadows everywhere because of it
Man after going to Hollywood a few times and now owning a vehicle, gta V really captured the California essence and LA vibes. People complain about the crazy npc driving but that’s honestly the reality. Lol, anyways I wish vinewood got some kinda visual map update. The area honestly feels just too lonely, isolated and not filled with loud horns, randomness of strangers, the Hollywood strip life…. I get it’s a game and has its engine limits but cmon. We need that before gta vi
I'm impressed OMG they really did a awesome job 😮❤
Honestly because of GTA V I started getting interested into Los Angeles. Then I started reading Michael Conelly and Raymond Chandler. Nobody should say that gaming is bad for your education.
Onespot never disappoints us
Thank you :D
That's true 👍
Yea he did
I Been To LA A Couple Of Times And Its Crazy How I Feel Like Im On The Game
I’m probably gonna visit LA in the next few months, so I look forward to seeing all the GTA locations IRL.
when i went to LA, i loved going to places gta 5 recreated, it felt like i went there before
Great comparison video! I really enjoyed your take on the GTA 5 Real vs Game concept. It's impressive how you recreated those moments with such detail and accuracy. Keep up the fantastic work, and I'm looking forward to seeing more content like this on your channel. If you're interested, I also recently did a GTA 5 Real vs Game video on my channel. It would be awesome if we could exchange ideas and tips for creating engaging content. Keep rocking the gaming world!
It looks so good, and the music is sooo nice
Long nights and after class memories that will never be forgotten
Absolutely Amazing!! 👌👌💯💯🔥🔥
I will be in LA next week planning to bring GTA V maps with me 😂.
Imagine anybody living in Los Angeles playing GTA V. They'd know their way around the map automatically without having to locate anything on the map.
Have they finished that building in real life yet 😂
Damn them graphics mods be getting really good, no kidding!
They sure are similar. Amazing.
Thank you :D
@@OnespotGaming no prob
bro, music nice!
Even if the GTA and the real were swapped, I would believe it😂
GTA V somehow took one of the largest urban sprawls in the world and condensed it to the size of a very small US city while still keeping the specific feel of many areas. GTAs version LA of course on the whole doesn’t capture the intensity of the real life, but it’s a fantastic pastiche of dozens of its neighborhoods, and it is faithful to them geographically. With some exceptions - Santa Monica beach/ pier in GTA V feels practically 1-1. I imagine it’s smaller but all of the details are there.
Imagine a realistic video game of every city in America then every country 🤯
One video for GTA Vice City Places Vs. Real Life Miami Places 😍
Yess
Jazzy music
Now just imagine about gta 6 🥺❤️
GTA 6 would be Las AnGes
@@Perich29 I hope it will be vice, los santos, san fransico (idk the name of the city in gta San Andreas), and liberty city all together in one map. But too bad they will stick with vice city
I think GTA is better than real life 😂😂😂
The amusement park is very similar to the real thing 🥶
0:24 real life footage running at 20fps
I play GTA 5 since 2017 and, since i never been in U.S, i wasn't aware how similar both cities are!
This will be a go to video in 4 years. The United States of America is hosting the 2028 Summer Olympic Games in Los Angelious. It will be interesting to see how my knowledge of the city from this game, and the locations it’s based on, will appear in important detail for when the venues are shown.
They weren't playing when they said "scaled down" 😂😂😂. We need another one.
5:45 The USA are like a Janus-head. Tinseltown-glamour on the south of the mountain and deserted desperation on the north of the mountains. Its interesting how GTA V was recreating these sharp differences so realisticaly.
Crazy fact; The Movie Transformers (2007) was actually filmed in In Los Angeles, California (Los Santos) 😳😳🫡🥵🤯😱
Well done Rockstar. Incredible job.
In future, Rockstar may improve creating all world map yeah 😂
I want to play it and explore my own country
NEXT: GTA 4 Liberty City Places Vs. Real Life New York Places (Very Similar)
Yes
“Los Santos” = The saints
“Los Angeles” = The angels
Like from Brazil! 👏👏👏👏✌️😀
Thank you :D
I`m see you @OnespotGaming makes one video of Places Miami`s VS GTA VI, I am Brazilian and liked known everywhere on United States
Wow😮
That’s Insane😃
Just makes me wanna visit that place tbh
If only I had the dough
It's too crowded everywhere, it was nice visiting but way too crowded. Too many homeless people, and expensive af
@@YA-vl8jhi can agree with that ive been to L.A multiple times and there is a bunch of crazy people too
Cool vedeo love your vedeos froom 🇩🇿
This game brings me so much joy. Thank you for your videos.
Bro gta 5 so popular they created a real life version of it
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If i ever move to la i wont need a map
AWESOME CAPTION OF BOTH ..Congratulations Creators/Designers/Team of GTA 5 Capturing Masterpieces of the Real Los Santos ❤ 👏 👏 👏 👏
the unfortunate thing about video games is that everything looks like it's made of cheap plastic, from the buildings to the human skin. The only way some games try to replicate some materials is by making them shine use RTX lighting and reflections, but still most materials look weird in even top tier games
Solid video 💯
Thank you :D
Very nice comparison.
I would love to have GTA5 that was made now, it would look much better. Just in terms of size and details.
Sandy shores!!:)
I used to live in bakersfield, now I live in Los Angeles, my favorite place is Santa monica pier
I know this is a dumb question but is it possible to make an exact map replica of California in a decent amount of time? I figure it would be 100% harder to make everything.
Caylus house was actually included to
I wonder if GTA V scared the crap out the authorities in Los Angeles irl
Onespot you do the best videos I am subscribed
Buena copia del original GTA 5 Exelente 🎉
Nice video I didn't think there were real life places😅🤔
Most of the Gta maps are based on irl cities
@Super_saiyan_gigachad_cj I know but some I didn't know existed
Yes 💚💚💚🔥🔥🔥
Too similar man❤❤❤
Just amazing
Does anyone else feel like they could get around LA pretty good just from playing GTA 5? I do!
I could go to Los angeles and know where everything is😂(not everything)
Si viajas a los 80s y le dices a la gente que esas imágenes no son reales y son de un video juego, probablemente te llamarían loco
Any resemblance to reality is pure coincidence. 🤣
The map is based on Los Angeles
Is it better to have side by side pictures, or one picture above the other? Or no difference?
Trying to decide on the way I'm going to present a project of my own, thanks in advance for the inputs.
Hi onespot bhai i am your big fan 0:46
Thank you :D
Question: what comes to mind when somebody mentions GTA San Andreas?
My mind: "I say heeeeeyyyy good lookin, whaaaat you got cooking" 😅
Cool !!!!!!
Cool jobs
Anyone who is actually living nearby the beach how does it feels to play the game?
It’s nice not being blown up by flying broomsticks with missiles.
Flying next week to Los Angeles, first time in my life. I will get the feeling Im in GTA
Cool!
Does anyone else feel like they played so much of this map that they could be dropped off in any random spot in LA and find their way around ?
The King is here 👑⭐
I wonder if I'll ever visit the US and find it similar to this game
Amazing, now with GTA IV
Thank you :D
I love Los Santos
I had relatives living in USA and l hope one day when l come to visit them l could go to los Angeles