Navigation menu Personal tools Create account Log in. By using our services, you agree to our use of cookies. Technically, both the New Guernsey landmass and the rest of Liberty City are treated in-game as a single entity, similar to the wholes of San Andreas and Vice City.Ĭookies help us deliver our services. Although districts within the western landmass are stated earlier to be located within the "state" of New Guernseythey form part of Liberty City's metropolitan area similar to the New York metropolitan area and do not feature much aesthetic distinctions from the rest of the city. The districts are evidently based on real life areas in New York City and New Jersey, while their names are wordplays of those from their real life counterparts. Liberty City has the largest number of districts among the three in the game, with a total of twenty. A looping train linerunning along elevated and underground lines, also services locations all across the city. Like New York City, Liberty City is designed as heavily urbanized city with vast numbers of buildings and only a minimal number of parks and greenery. Weighing against its later counterpartthe city's geography and alignment of districts in the game are much more reminiscent of New York City, featuring two major mainlands with a Manhattan-like central island which contains a large park at the center, a reference to Central Parkand several smaller islands along a river of the city, with the mainlands and islands connected primarily by road bridges. Nonetheless, inexperienced visitors are advised to avoid The Park at night, when drug-addled squirrels run wild, keep out of Kings at day or night, and to avoid The Brix at any given time. Yet, as the mayor's office spokesman says, "Liberty City used to be a very violent place, but since we took office, it now has the 47th lowest murder rate of any cite on the eastern sea board".
Liberty City has acquired a terrible reputation for violent, organized crime over the years. From plague to city-wide bankruptcy in the s, from new dawns to broken promises, these people have lived through it all, secure in the knowledge that as long as they have coffee in the morning and an easy buck to make, things can't be that bad. What really makes Liberty City, though, is the people who choose to live there. From the tragedy of Law Island, where a plague out break once killed a million immigrants awaiting transfers to the mainland, to the ethnic charm of Island Heights, to the galleries and sky scrapers of downtown Island City, there is so much to see and do.
Whether you have lived in Liberty all your life, or are visiting for the first time, there is always something new to see. Glamorous and cynical, hard-edged and soft-livered, beautiful and damned, it is a city living on the edge.įrom the glamour of Island City to the down at heel bums of The Brix, this is truly the city that sleeps with one eye open.
Liberty City is the first city the player must play in before unlocking the other two.