

If the expansion would be merely half as large, or a third even of the main GTA Online map, players would already feel like they have much more room to play in.

Considering that when the snow arrives for two days each Christmas people praise it, making the North Yankton area constantly snowy would be a bonus. Los Santos is enough city for GTA 5, and the game's most interesting locations are in the wilderness anyway. However, Rockstar could easily expand upon the existing North Yankton map and boost it into something larger. In the case of any choice other than Liberty City would require the dev team to build the new location from the ground up, since updating the 3D era assets - if Rockstar even has them still - would be nigh impossible.īy why should they do all this when they have an unused area built for GTA 5 already? Sure, North Yankton is just a small set piece with much of the area around it being only half-baked with 2D facades and skyboxes completing the player's very brief visit to the location in singleplayer. However, each of these would require quite a bit of work to visually remaster to match the current visual quality of the game as it is currently. The fan favorite suggestions include Liberty City and Vice City, though logically one of the other cities featured in San Andreas, meaning San Fierro and Las Venturas, would be a better choice. Now, in light of this it might not be a coincidence that one of the most frequently requested updates for GTA Online (right after that coveted police DLC) is one that somehow expands the map of the game.

However when you have Freemode Events randomly triggering all over the place, biker gangs riding about doing missions, CEOs and their associates delivering crates or importing vehicles, random crews faffing about the place, Hydra griefers harrowing everyone, players having a round of Piracy Prevention being all rowdy on the beach and more - much more - going on all at the same time, it suddenly feels far too small. Now, GTA 5's map is pretty damn big, and while there are a few game maps out there that are bigger, it ranks among the some of the biggest. We've previously written about how all that content being added to an already content-rich game is starting to make the map feel too small to comfortably facilitate gameplay. However, not once has the game's map been expanded. In total, there have been over 26 DLCs ranging from the major such as Heists and Further Adventures In Finance and Felony to the minor such as Custom Classics and Deadline.

GTA Online recently passed its third anniversary, and since the game launched back in 2013, it has been getting regular content updates quite frequently.
