Before I Knew New York, I Knew Liberty City: A Retrospective on GTA IV's Setting

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To mark the 15th anniversary of Grand Theft Auto IV, we look back at how its embellished rendering of Manhattan helped instill a real-life love of the city. Want us to remember this setting for all your devices?Terms of Use and Privacy PolicyenterWhat's even funnier to me about how dated GTA IV's city feels is what doesn't make the cut in its version of Liberty City and how clearly it points to the era in which this game was made. One imagines a modern Liberty City making them the biggest respective section of Broker, filling the streets with oddly dressed hipsters saying the most pretentious stuff you've ever heard on the way to the closest cafe as a kind of toothless jab at the populace, but as it stands, it's nowhere in sight

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