explaining the gta 6 hype to my wife using a map of leonida

I pulled up the official map on my phone and told her, look, this isn't just a game, it's a whole state. Vice City proper is only the southeastern tip. You've got the Leonida Keys snaking southwest (I'm already dreaming of the bridge transitions between islands), the Grassrivers wetlands bleeding into the Everglades north of the city, and then this massive inland sea, Lake Leonida, with Port Gellhorn on its western shore. Mount Kalaga looms in the northwest corner, and Ambrosia sits way up in the northeast, probably some sleepy panhandle town. I said, imagine a TV show where every single building in every single one of these places has an interior, and you can just... walk in. She got it when I compared it to the feeling of driving into a new small town on a road trip, that mix of curiosity and scale. That's the whole map. November 19th is the day we get the keys to the rental car.