The
Grand Theft Auto series is set in a fictional version of the world, in a number of different time periods. The original
Grand Theft Auto introduced three main cities:
Liberty City, based upon
New York City,
Vice City, based upon
Miami, and
San Andreas, based upon parts of
California. In the first Grand Theft Auto game, San Andreas was based only on San Francisco. Expansion packs later set the game in London.
The second entry in the franchise, Grand Theft Auto 2, set the game in the future in a locale named "Anywhere City"
Subsequent games in the series have re-imagined and expanded upon the original locales. Grand Theft Auto III is set in a different rendition of Liberty City only loosely based on New York City.[7] A revised Vice City and San Andreas are depicted in Vice City andSan Andreas, respectively, the latter of which takes the form of an entire state, instead of a single city. The state of San Andreas is based on the states of California and Nevada, and consists of three major cities: Los Santos (Los Angeles), San Fierro (San Francisco) and Las Venturas (Las Vegas). Surrounding towns and areas of desert, water, woodland and countryside lie between the three cities.
Liberty City Stories and Vice City Stories, originally released on the PlayStation Portable handheld console, are set in the previous depictions of their respective Gta San Andreas B-13 NFS eponymous cities.