GTA IV Original Map Concept Art - Tri-State Area

/ badgergoodger / badgergoodger / badgergoodger Did you like Liberty City and Alderney? Imagine if we got the state of Liberty, a larger Alderney, and Connecticut? Had Rockstar decided to move ahead with this design, this would have been the map! By the way, I love geography, so be prepared for this video to feel like it's an hour long if you always hated that subject in school.

[@justinhicks8005]

If Rockstar ever go back to Liberty City then they absolutely need to base the map on these sketches!

[@potts995]

If the map were that big, I can't imagine how different the story would've been. I wonder what business Niko would've had in Connecticut or Niagara Falls, LOL

[@presidentkiller]

Houser later contradicted himself with GTA V. It's just a lot of map with nothing interesting to do, especially in GTA Online. If it was made like GTA San Andreas, at least you'd have other interesting cities to explore, not just small uninteresting towns, empty massive mountains and scattered abandoned buildings in a desert.

[@Legacy-181]

I wish GTA IV had all the surrounding areas of Long Island, New York, and New Jersey.

[@Unknown_Ooh]

Then we got GTA V with one city and a couple small towns. What happened? I hope GTA VI runs with the entire idea

[@Pundit2k]

GTA 7, BABY!!!

[@f_zed4068]

I pretty sure the reason yankee stadium isn’t in the game is because it was being rebuilt or the devs just gave a big middle finger to it

[@ZeroGravity3290]

Why does rockstar always cut out so much of these great gta games?

[@nuclearglory0363]

Sometimes I forget that GTA doesn’t have New York and that liberty city IS New York, it always throws me off

[@dougiefreshh0019]

GTA was not recession proof at that point in time. They needed to play it safe.

[@lordmartinofleithandcuddy6541]

Fun fact: the GTA IV name for Brighton Beach being Hove Beach being so called is likely a reference to the Brighton and Hove constituency in the U.K. How creative the R* lot are...

[@nand87]

This concept would have absolutely been "celebrated", the fact that people still love the way San Andreas go with multicity concept.

[@rangerv1]

If it was set in the Tri-state area. Dr. Doofenshmirtz would be the protagonist.

[@Gypsyx]

I’ve been waiting for you to cover this buddy

[@TerminatorZXY]

10 years later they actually made a super detailed in depth game with a massive map, RDR2.

[@Scorpio19110]

I hope they use this concept for a future GTA

[@zachariaszedward5631]

It wouldn't be a Badger Goodger's video without mentioning Staten Island :D

[@NatsukiMogiIsBestGirl]

"Having 2,000 people run around a map shooting each other, that's just not interesting to me."

[@LostParadise_]

I think a lot of it was just technological limitations. Maybe San Andreas could get away with it, but given GTA 4's graphics and somewhat demanding requirements at the time may have put a stop on a massive multi-state, multi-city idea with diverse environments

[@Mici]

I love how you could talk about a picture for 11 minutes and make it interesting. Well done.