Grand Theft Auto: Las Venturas (Also know as GTA: LV) is a Rockstar North video game that was released on August 7th, 2017 For PS4, Xbox One and PC
The game was announced on April 14th, 2015 and was set to be released in September, but was delayed to August 24th 2016.
Grand Theft Auto: Las Venturas is set in the year 2009 in Las Venturas and tells the story of Austin Tyko and takes place in the HD universe.
The game was very hyped before release. The game received mixed reviews, though mostly positive. It recieved 89 on Metacritic and 93 on Gamerankings and getting over 42 perfect scores. It sold 3 million copies on launch day. It also got 2 billion on Christmas.
Setting[]
Grand Theft Auto: Las Venturas takes place in 2009, one year after Grand Theft Auto IV and four years before the events of Grand Theft Auto V. The game mainly takes place in the south of the state of Robada, such as parts of Hoover County and Las Venturas. The game also features areas from Paiute, San Andreas, and Deniza. The map overall is mostly desert, with some patches of grass and snow in certain locations, such as Tierra Robada and many large mountains. The game's setting mostly parodies Nevada, California, Arizona, and Utah. It is the only Grand Theft Auto game to not have a full ocean border, but rather large cliffs and mountains that cannot be scaled or flown over.
Premise[]
Synopsis[]
Setting[]
Main articles: State of Robada, State of Paiute, State of Deniza, and State of San Andreas (HD Universe)
In April of 2015, Rockstar announced that they would be releasing a new Grand Theft Auto later that year and it would take place in Las Venturas and the surrounding countryside. When the game came out, the map was nearly five times the size as Grand Theft Auto V's map, with parts of Nevada, Utah, Arizona, and California. The map featured four states and introduced many new neighborhoods and cities. One of the cities featured in the game was Las Venturas, which was completely redesigned after Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas. The game's map is approximately 43 square miles/103.6 km2 when both land and see are put together. It takes around 7 minutes to drive from the lowest point of the map to the highest point of the map while going at top speed in most vehicles.
Plot[]
Introduction
The game opens with a black screen "Rockstar Games presents, A Rockstar North Production". A lizard runs across the screen and the camera pans up to show a prison with the searchlights on and a faint siren heard. Two men are seen running over the hill away from the prison. The scene cuts to the men entering a trailer park in the desert. The men walk through the trailer park remaining in the shadows but a streetlight catches the back of one of the men. "RSCF" is seen written across an orange jumpsuit. Out of the darkness a pickup truck speeds into the trailer park and parks in front of a trailer. A man stumbles out of the truck and storms into the trailer leaving the truck running "Home free baby! There's our chance!" says one of the men and the two men hop in the truck. You take control of the driver and your partner instructs you onto the highway. "Just follow the light! Venturas baby! The City of Sin!" A beam of light is seen shooting up into the sky and a strip of blue, red, gold and white light is seen on the horizon. You and your partner race down state highway 69 toward the oasis of light in the dark cold desert. Las Venturas, the city of Sin a city that has turned good men bad and rich men poor. When you reach the city you pass a large bright sine "Welcome to Fabulous Las Venturas, Robada"
Chapter I (Missions 1-11)
When you arrive in Las Venturas for the first time Austin says his first words "Feels good to be home" Austin and his partner drive to a motel located in North Venturas where he says they can get a change of clothes and lay low. Here is where Austin meets the owner of the motel, a middle eastern man named Ramza Salah. He gives Austin and his partner a change of clothes and a place to stay. Here we learn that the protagonist is named Austin Tyko and his partner in the escape is named Kyle Miller. After a night at the hotel Austin and Kyle head over to Austin's childhood home in Southeast Venturas. When you arrive you find the house deserted with a for sale sign on the outside and Austin' family nowhere to be found. We also learn of Austin' background as a Marine who returned to find his hometown in financial ruin and his family on the verge of falling apart. Over the next few missions you and Kyle live at the motel and do odd jobs for Ramza in order to pay for your stay. These jobs include the combat tutorial involving a shootout with crackheads who have infested Ramza's motel and driven away business "I can live with the Pimps, Hos and Drug pushers but the addicts. Can't live with em." says Ramza. Austin and Kyle also take up some work for one of Austins' childhood friends named Patrick who owns a mod shop only a few blocks from Austin's childhood home. Patrick gives Austin a cell phone to keep in touch. And In his missions you do a lot of driving and learn the layout of the city. As well as learn of the new car Mod features and Patrick's list of wanted vehicles for you to steal. Patrick introduces you to his new friend Finn Mulholland. Finn likes cars, which is probably how he and Patrick became friends. Afterwards, Austin can do a couple jobs for Finn. The Act concludes with a shootout with the East Side disciples. A local street gang that's been putting pressure on Patrick's business.
Chapter 2 (Missions 11-20)
After Austin and Kyle help out Patrick in defending his shop from the Disciples, Austin receives a call from Patrick's sister Kristi whom Austin had a fling with during his high school years. This starts a mission that involves taking Kristi out on a date to a comedy show at the Lion's Den casino. Afterwards you can call Kristi whenever you want to take her out and she becomes Austin's first girlfriend. Kyle gives Austin a ring and tells him to meet him at a bar located down the street from Ramza's Motel. He lets Austin know of a possible business connection with the Gambetti Crime Family out of Liberty City. He says they were once big players in Las Venturas but were pushed out by the F.I.B in the 1980s but now they want back into the city's crime world.
They have set up operation at a quarry located just a few minutes south of the city. Austin and Kyle travel to the Hunter Quarry and meet up with the Gambetti's. The officer in command lets Austin and Kyle know that they have connections within the LVPD and could get police and F.I.B attention off of them if they help them take back some of their territory in Las Venturas. The two cannot refuse this offer. Austin takes the next few missions at the Hunter quarry office trailer working for the Gambettis on a small scale defending their interests from street gangs and the police. He also picks up work from Raymond Frank through his work with the Gambettis. Raymond is a lawyer with connections with the Gambettis and is a severe drug addict. At some point, Kyle introduces Austin to his old dealer, Michael Goldman at the Big Smoke Casino. This leads to Michael giving Austin work, typically relating to drug deals and such. One mission involves robbing the Ruiz Cartel and Badillo Cartel of their drugs. Austin meets other characters such as Jonathon Castello who tells him about Allen Murphy. Allen Murphy is described as a low-life who leads a rival gang to that of the Gambettis known as the Murphy Gang. Austin is asked to take out many of Murphy's gang members with Kyle.
Missions[]
(See: Missions in GTA Las Venturas)
Characters[]
Austin Tyko[]
LVPD Database
Surname: Tyko
First Name: Austin
Nationality: Swedish-American
Age: 29
Place Of Birth: Las Venturas, Robada
Affiliations: Unknown.
Alias: None
Criminal Record: 1994-Felony Murder.
Notes: -Recently escaped from RSCF.
-Military trained in Firearms and survival, Approach with caution. -No known criminal underworld connections.
Info/Bio
Austin is a generally quiet individual who is suffering from post traumatic stress disorder after service in an unnamed war. he joined in 1992 at the age of 18 and served multiple tours of duty only returning a few times over the years. Finally returned home for good in 1994 and found Las Venturas to be a city in ruin due to the economic collapse and the decline of the housing market. He slipped into deep depression and turned to alcohol and drugs to heal his pain. He made one two many mistakes and was charged with Manslaughter during the commission of a felony (Felony Murder) when he was attempting to rob a liquor store and the clerk dies of a heart attack. Only 10 months after his return to the U.S he was sentenced to a life sentence without parole and served over two years of his sentence before him and Kyle made a daring escape. When he arrives in Las Venturas he is unable to locate his family and spends a good part of the story trying to locate his family and put his troubled past behind him.
Kyle Miller[]
LVPD Database
Surname: Miller
First Name: Kyle
Age: 26
Place Of Birth: San Fierro, San Andreas
Affiliations: Unknown.
Alias: Unknown.
Criminal record: 1992-Possession of Marijuana, 1992-Grand Theft Auto, 1993-Second Degree Murder
Notes: -Recently Escaped From RSCF. -
Known to have an unpredictable temper.
Info/Bio
Born in San Fierro as an army brat who traveled all around the country throughout his childhood until his family finally settled down in Mitchell Springs. He was a rebellious teenager often in trouble with the law and that didn't change when he became an adult. His drug use continued and he was still making foolish decisions until 1993 when he was convicted of second degree murder. He helps Austin on his escape from prison and accompanies him to Las Venturas where the two meet up with a Motel owner Kyle knew on the outside.
Ramza Salah[]
LVPD Database
Surname: Salah
First Name: Ramza
Age: 45
Place Of Birth: Beirut, Lebanon
Affiliations: Unknown.
Alias: Rammy
Criminal Record: 1999-Assaulting a police officer, Drunk in Public.
Notes: -
Owner of the "Ramza's palace" Motel in North Las, Venturas. -
No Known connections to organized crime.
-Motel is a rumored hotspot for prostitution.
Info/Bio
A Middle Eastern Motel owner in Las Venturas. Kyle knows him from his days before prison and used his Motel as a place to get easy drugs and easy women. He allows Kyle and Austin to hide out in his Motel in exchange for a few odd jobs and for doing some of his bidding in the criminal underworld.
Patrick Perry[]
LVPD Database
Surname: Perry
First Name: Patrick
Age: 28
Place Of Birth: Las Venturas, Robada
Affiliations: Unknown.
Alias: Pat
Criminal Record: 2009-Hit N' Run
Notes: -Owner of a car customization shop known as "The Ricer Special" in East Venturas.
-Rumors on the street indicate increasing pressure from the East Side disciples Gang.
Info/Bio
A childhood neighbor and friend of Austin. Grew up together with Austin but was denied access to the Millitary due to an extreme case of asthma. He owns a Mod shop in East Venturas known as "The Ricer Special" and a few missions are done for him in the early part of the game. Mods at his shop are cheaper than any other shop in the game due to the friendship discount he gives Austin.
Raymond Frank[]
LVPD Database
Surname: Frank
First Name: Ramyond
Age: 37
Place Of Birth: Alderney City, Alderney
Affiliations: Rumored to be involved with one of the Liberty City crime families.
Alias: None.
Criminal Record: 1997-Soliciting a prostitute, Indecent exposure.
Notes: -Owns a law firm in Las Venturas. -Rumored to be working for an unidentified crime family out of Liberty City.
Info/Bio
A Lawyer who is working for the Gambetti crime family in their efforts to re-establish their operations in Las Venturas. He is a very smooth and is usually able to get his way with his silver tongue. But has been known to make some bad choices when his judgement is clouded by alcohol or drugs. He has recently developed a cocaine addiction but refuses to admit that he has a problem only stating that Coke lets him clear his mind and focus on the task at hand.
Gameplay[]
Vehicles[]
Exotic/High performance
Ballista
Banshee
Canerra
Cheetah
Comet
Coquette
Dukes
Infernus
Sabre GT
Stallion
Super GT
Sultan RS
Sultan
Turismo
Vigero
Compacts
Blista Compact
Buccaneer
Faction
Feltzer
Fortune
Futo
Ruiner
Roach
Sabre
Sentinel
Uranus
Paco
Sunset
Four door sedans
Admiral
Buffalo
Chavos
Cognoscenti
DF890
Dilettante
Emperor
Esperanto
Feroci
Futo
Hakumai
Ingot
Intruder
Lokus
Marbelle
Merit
Oracle
Pinnacle
PMP600
Premier
Presidente
Primo
Schafter
Solair
Stratum
Stretch
Sultan
Vincent
Virgo
Washington
Willard
Lowriders
Manana
Peyote
Voodoo
Government/Emergency vehicles
Ambulance
SAHP Buffalo
SAHP Cruiser
SWAT Patriot
SWAT Tank
Enforcer
Firetruck
Police Cruiser
Police Patrol
Police Motorcycle
Stockade
Civil Service and transportation
Air tug
Airport cab
Bus
Coach
Cabby
Mail Truck
Taxi
City Bus
Small trucks and Vans
Bobcat
Boxville
Burrito
Contender
Minivan
Moonbeam
Perennial
Picador
Pony
Rancher
Speedo
Large trucks and utility
Benson
Biff
Bulldozer
Dumper
Flatbed
Fork Lift
Loader
Mule
Packer
Phantom
Ripley
Securicar
Steed
Skidsteer
Technical
Trashmaster
Motorcycles/Bikes
BMX
Faggio
Freeway
Goldback
Hellfury
Hexer
Mountain bike
NRG 900
PCJ 600
Roadbike
Sanchez
Wayfarer
Zombie
Aircraft
Annihilator
Dodo
Helitours Maverick
Skylift
Maveric
Police Maverick
Skimmer
Boats
Coast Guard Predator
Dinghy
Jetmax
Marquis
Reefer
Rare vehicles
News Van
Mr.Tasty
Romero
Weapons[]
Melee Purchased at Ammu-Nation?: No
Modable?: No
-Knife -Baseball Bat -Crowbar -Golf Club -Police Baton
Pistols
-9MM
Weapon: $500
Per clip: $25
Purchased at Ammu-Nation?: Yes
Modable?: Yes
-Desert Eagle Weapon: $900 Per clip: $30 Purchased at Ammu-Nation?: Yes Modable?: Yes
-Revolver Weapon: $800 Per Clip: $20 Purchased at Ammu-Nation?: Yes Modable?: Yes
Sub-Machine Guns
-Micro-SMG Weapon: $1000 Per Clip: $75 Purchased at Ammu-Nation?: Yes Modable?: Yes
-MP5 Weapon: $1500 Per Clip: $100 Purchased at Ammu-Nation?: Yes Modable?: Yes
-Uzi Weapon: $1200 Per Clip: $75 Purchased at Ammu-Nation?: Yes Modable?: Yes
Shotguns
-Stubby Shotgun Weapon: $1200 Per Clip: $50 Purchased at Ammu-Nation?: Yes Modable?: Yes
-Combat Shotgun Weapon: $1500 Per Clip: $50 Purchased at Ammu-Nation?: Yes Modable?: Yes
-Assault Shotgun Weapon: $1750 Per Clip: $75 Purchased at Ammu-Nation?: No Modable?: No
Assault Rifles
-AK-47 Weapon: $2200 Per Clip: $125 Purchased at Ammu-Nation?: Yes Modable?: Yes
-M4 Weapon: 2000 Per Clip: $125 Purchased at Ammu-Nation?: Yes Modable?: Yes
-AUG Weapon: $2500 Per Clip: $150 Purchased at Ammu-Nation?: No Modable?: Yes
Long Range Rifles
-Springfield Weapon: $2300 Per Clip: $75 Purchased at Ammu-Nation?: Yes Modable?: Yes
-Laser Sniper Weapon: $2500 Per Clip: $100 Purchased at Ammu-Nation?: Yes Modable?: Yes
Heavy Weapons
-RPG Weapon: $10000 Per Clip: $5000 Purchased at Ammu-Nation?: No Modable?: No
-Heat Seeking RPG Weapon: $15000 Per Clip: $7500 Purchased at Ammu-Nation?: No Modable?: No
Radio Stations[]
- KZ69
- LVSounds 99.6
- Throwback 97.7
- Tube F.M.
- Generation X
- Technation
- Vamp F.M.
- Independence F.M.
- Venturas Public Radio
- Bone County Radio
Features introducted In Grand Theft Auto: Las Venturas []
- Return Of Ammunation
- Players can now add their own music through Independence F.M.
- 70 Missions
- Map is Now giant
- New weapons
- New rare vehicles
- Multiplayer Returns
Reception[]
Grand Theft Auto: Las Venturas recieved mostly positive reviews. It was praised for it's graphics, gameplay and all around mechanics. The game recieved 89 on Metacritic. IGN Praised most of the game, but disliked the minigames and the ending.
Notes[]
- Grand Theft Auto: Las Venturas is the first Grand Theft Auto game to have a multi-state map.
- The game takes up about 200GB after being downloaded.