GTA 5 modders are adding San Andreas locations to the already-huge map

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GTA 5 veterans are splicing locations from San Andreas into the newer game's map, with a small demo already available.

Over the past weekend, the tweet below highlighted that several Grand Theft Auto historians were busy working on something new for GTA 5. That would be the Las Venturas Project, where a small team is busy taking two locations from San Andreas - Las Venturas and Bone County - and basically adding them to GTA 5's map.

There is a team of modders working on a project to add Las Venturas and Bone County to the #GTAV map, with a small part of it already available to the public! They're planning to have the final map almost as big as the original GTA V map. More details: https://t.co/aSZHT7W0hd pic.twitter.com/vXnizTf3F4August 29, 2022

The developer in charge of the new project, who goes by the name of Antasurris, writes on their Patreon (opens in new tab) page that they felt there was "something missing" from GTA 5. That "something" is both Las Venturas and Bone County, which Antasurris believes are ripe for use in Grand Theft Auto given their natural caricature nature.

The current version of the mod includes "El Castillo del Diablo, Heatstroke Highway, Historic Route 69 and several adjacent roads as well as our hotel The Melasuda," according to Antasurris. This is spread out across three square kilometres, but the final version of the mod is eyed to be a whopping 70 square kilometres, almost the same size at GTA 5's entire map.

Antasurris writes the team plans to have a playable version of the mod available to Patreon backers later this year in December, featuring the road network and most iconic buildings of the San Andreas locations. There's no final date for the mod's launch just yet, but Antasurris writes