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Explore GTA IV’s Liberty City With Google Maps

Google Maps is basically the greatest thing to happen to navigation since the compass. Too bad we won’t have much use for it—since Grand Theft Auto IV dropped yesterday, we won’t be venturing outside the house for a few months.

In the meantime, IGN has created an amazing, fully-interactive Google Maps version of GTA’s new Liberty City. It works exactly like Google Maps, with a zoom function and dragable movement. Registered IGN users are continually updating points of interest throughout Liberty City as they discover them in the game, meaning you can select a box to view anything you want: mission locations, strip clubs, secret easter eggs, vehicles, etc. Once you display the general category, you can then click on the specific location to view the user-entered details. Now all they need to do is get a “Street View” function popping to catch those drug deals in action. Visit IGN to see the map, and check out the most recent GTA trailer after the jump.

[Google Maps Mania]