Dude! You know?!: Grand Theft Auto in my real life

Sunday, December 4, 2011

Grand Theft Auto in my real life

I've always been a huge GTA fan. I genuinely believe that the GTA series is the best video game of all times. It's a perfect mix of committing crime, shooting, driving cars and having a story. My personal favorite is GTA San Andreas. I think it's mainly because the fundamental changes introduced after the Liberty City or Vice City episodes. Anyway I helped C.J. a dozen times finishing his missions from the beginning to the very end. I loved GTA 4, too, but for some reason it didn't occupy the same place in my heart as San Andreas.

As everyone knows Rockstar Games released the first official trailer of GTA5. And I got all excited, but I need to wait for next Christmas to get it.

So Thanksgiving long weekend coming up I played with GTA 3 again. It was 2004 when the game was released and it came out to PC in 2005. It was exactly 1 year after I graduated from university. Playing it this time just made me realize that I live where the game's story actually takes place. It's unbelievable! 6 years ago I couldn't even dream about it! And the best part is that I've seen almost everything in real life, too, what's in the game. The parts missing are Area 51 (and probably it will not really change hence it's a strictly guarded military object) and the desert hills in Utah and Arizona (especially Monument Valley), which I plan to visit in a big road trip soon.

So I took some time and compiled together a mash up of pictures from the game and from real life:

San Francisco