San Francisco has a ton of landmarks, but I wondering what landmarks you would use for LA? If it’s not an obvious landmark, a short description of the building, street, etc. would be cool.
Thanks.
GTA SA 
Grand theft auto San Andreas, October of this year, I believe.
It’s recent on the scene, but the new Disney Hall is trying to become the signal of LA.
Then of course, you have the Hollywood sign and various other Hollywood-related buildings like Mann’s Chinese (or Grauman’s or Mann/Grauman’s…whatever) Theatre or Disneyland (if you are looking at Greater LA area instead of purely LA County).
I don’t think there’s any way they wouldn’t include those three landmarks…they’re practically symbols of LA itself.
It’ll be interesting to see how they portray Compton, or East LA, or any number of notoriously rough areas.
It’ll be equally interesting to see if they make the LAPD seem like utter badasses.
I wasn’t sure about yellowcakesolid’s knowledge of LA, hence the most obvious.
If you want to branch out of LA, you could have track housing after track housing after track houseing developments to signify the sprawling suburbs. It’s a bit depressing.
Hmm, I guess it would depend on how much of L.A. this game is going to simulate. If it’s going to encompass a large part of the city, then I guess it should include:
- 3rd St. Promenade
- Venice beach
- West L.A. residential
- Pink’s
- Downtown
- The Pantry
- Sunset Strip
- 10, 405, 110, 5, 60 freeways at the very least
It would be kinda cool if they included the OC and San Bern counties as like the outskirts of the game.
Hell-A and environs has a grip of incredibly famous landmarks. Just to name a slight few:
-LA City Hall (think DRAGNET!) pic
-Capitol Records Bldg. pic
-STAPLES Center pic
-Santa Monica Pier pic
-Watts Towers pic
-Hollywood Sign pic
-(New) Disney Concert Hall pic
-7th St. Bridge (in a gazillion car commercials) not a great pic, but the only one I could find-view from the bridge
-Griffith Observatory pic
-Sunset Strip info and pics
-Hollywood and Vine pic
-West Hollywood (AKA “WeHo”, SoCal’s equivalent of the Castro) we have Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence too!
-Venice, Muscle Beach pic
-Hollywood Bowl pic
-Dodger Stadium pic
-Rodeo Dr. info and pics
-Mulholland Dr. (Now a movie, LOL!) pics
-Hollywood Walk of Fame info and pics
-Mann’s Chinese Theater pic
-Union Station pic
…And yes, we have an AMOEBA Music, too! pic
They’ll need a 10-lane freeway that mysteriously turns into gridlock at 4pm.
Remember the “Good citizen” bonus in VC? There should be something like that, involving car chases.
I imagine an area with tar pits would be interesting, especially in conjunction with the flamethrower.
It seems to me that they are following the sequence from the first GTA. Liberty City, Vice City and San Andreas. But San Andreas wasn’t LA it was SF. so it wouldn’t have LA’s landmarks in it.