After all, “the city is a main character in this, so we paid lots of attention to detail.” “It’s an immense amount of work, just on the research alone,” Barrera says. “So what we’ve done is made a caricature, which if you’re from L.A., you can get around.”īarrera and a team of five flew here from their New York office and met 20 artists and designers from Rockstar’s San Diego office (the main developers of the title) scouting and photographing L.A.'s nooks and crannies for “months on end.” “You can’t do a road-to-road representation - with the traffic and everything, it would be kind of boring,” Barrera says.
