Size comparison of map of GTA 5

The Internet holds a great amount of speculation regarding the size of the map GTA 5. Themselves Rockstar Games before release of the game have said, that map will be more than maps, GTA 4, GTA San Andreas and Red Dead Redemption together. But after playing GTA 5 some had the impression that the map is not too big. This may be due to several reasons: for example, fast cars and a traffic on the roads allow to make greater speed, due to what there is a possibility to move very quickly. Besides GTA 5 buildings and blocks a little bit  larger than in GTA SA, therefore, comparison of the sizes of the worlds of these games can be uncorrect if based solely on experience. Here we present a comparison of the sizes of the map of Grand Theft Auto 5 and maps of other games based on rough estimates, committed with the maximum precision.

Comparison of the sizes of maps of GTA 5 and GTA 4

Some were disappointed with the size of the map of Grand Theft Auto IV, and R*, obviously, took this into account. After playing GTA 5, you can without a shadow of a doubt say that the size of the map of this game more than the size of the map of GTA 4, but how much more? Much more:

Comparison of the sizes of maps of GTA 5 and GTA San Andreas

This is perhaps the most interesting. The size of the map GTA SA was huge for its time, and now it definitely doesn't look small. Let us not waste time, this is actually a comparison:

Comparison of the sizes of maps of GTA 5 and Red Dead Redemption

World of RDR may seem overwhelming because travel is necessary in the best case on horseback, so that the speed of movement of the leaves much to be desired. If we compare the size of maps, we can see that the world of GTA 5 is much bigger:

However, one should note a few important details. Sea occupies a considerable part of the map of GTA 5, and at the bottom you can find the weapons, ammunition and other trifles, as well as the barrels of nuclear waste, the part of the submarine, hidden packages and much more, i.e. there is a content under water, and it's not just algae. Also consider that, by comparing the sizes of maps, we don't quite compare what we're really interested in is the size of game worlds. Remain completely unaccounted interiors which, as a rule, carefully worked out, and terrain: surface area of the mountain is much larger than the area of its Foundation, that is, the diverse relief, the larger the changes and the more, the bigger, in fact, the game world. These points of Grand Theft Auto 5 could give other games, so, to summarize, we can say that R* did not deceive, when they said about the map size of GTA 5 - it's really more than maps of GTA 4, GTA San Andreas and Red Dead Redemption together.

Finally, a short video illustrating the scale of the map GTA 5 and compares it with the scale of maps GTA 4: