dating has been in gta since san andreas, and in vice city stories you have that white trash chick(never beat the game so idk if you actually date her)

san andreas's map was huge, but a large percent of it was "dead space", which means places like desert where there is nothing to do for miles. the new liberty city is a smaller map, but has as much in it as all the other gta's put together.

also not only did they completely remake liberty city, they completely took out stauton island and replaced it with whatever the first island is in gta IV(i forget the name). so at least the first island is new.

EDIT: in the first grand theft auto, you played in liberty city, vice city, and san andreas, which is why all of the big gta's have taken place in them, in that order.

there was also a gta: london 1969, so they might make another gta and have it take place in london, and then either make a whole new place, re-use san andreas, or even stop making gta's all together.

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