How much bigger is GTA4's world compaired to GTV: SA?

I'm a little sad there wont be a forest or anything like San Andreas but SA had a huge world for the past gen. Which made me think, how far did Rockstar go on the size of the world for next gen? Is there a website or a map comparison somewhere?

Thanks in advance

Im actually happy GTA4 is smaller then SA. SA was way to big for its own good. It was way to annoying traveling that far. Going back and forth was just a choire.finalfantasy94

I agree, the whole scale of having 3 huge cities was great, but all the desert, forest and that open, empty land was crap. I would rather have a more densely packed city like IV than all that useless land to do nothing with.

[QUOTE="finalfantasy94"]Im actually happy GTA4 is smaller then SA. SA was way to big for its own good. It was way to annoying traveling that far. Going back and forth was just a choire.hillelslovak

I agree, the whole scale of having 3 huge cities was great, but all the desert, forest and that open, empty land was crap. I would rather have a more densely packed city like IV than all that useless land to do nothing with.

i have to agree, for the most part, i think Rockstar just added the desert and forest parts just to add to the map and give consumers the illusion that they were getting much more than just three cities.

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[QUOTE="finalfantasy94"]Im actually happy GTA4 is smaller then SA. SA was way to big for its own good. It was way to annoying traveling that far. Going back and forth was just a choire.Hawkman21

I agree, the whole scale of having 3 huge cities was great, but all the desert, forest and that open, empty land was crap. I would rather have a more densely packed city like IV than all that useless land to do nothing with.

i have to agree, for the most part, i think Rockstar just added the desert and forest parts just to add to the map and give consumers the illusion that they were getting much more than just three cities.

Or maybe it's to sorta take the load off of the system so it can load the next cities. Remember, SA had no loading times when travelling throughout the thing

I didnt care for the deserts really but the forests and the mountain were pretty cool. In GTA III one of my favorite things was to go to SV and go up near the observatory which was the highest point in III besides the buildings. Then jumping and falling like 300 feet to that little park with the bobcat and patriot and dying or taking someone with me was always funny too. I think i still have just about every bit of GTA III to memory and can practically drive with my eyes closed.

I'd much rather they had a bit of wasted space. Too much time in one city and I'll get claustrophobic. Plus the landmarks and little bits and bobs in the wilderness of SA made it fun to roam around in.

Plus I hate that you can only use helicopters in the air, they're horrible to use in GTA.

They said it was smaller, but you can enter, climb buildings and other structures.

Thats pretty bad ass.

But I have to admit I liked the space in SA, it gave the game more mistery and areas to look, especially in Las Venturas, where the desert had tons of secret cars, area 69, mountains and other things.

Yeah, its smaller. About the size of GTA3W3dotCOM

I am sure it is much larger than that, even VC was larger than that.

You can kind of see a map at the website:

http://www.rockstargames.com/IV/