In 2026, I still boot up GTA 5 like it is a comfort blanket. The difference is that my comfort blanket now has a suspension bridge to a racing island, a Canadian farmland district, and an eight-lane European motorway bolted onto it. I blame FV Mods. While Rockstar keeps polishing GTA 6 into a neon sunbeam, this one hobbyist apparently decided to build a Grand Theft Multiverse instead. And honestly? I am not mad about it.

I first installed Oldburries because the name sounded like a place where my sat-nav would quietly give up. Ten minutes later, I was driving past farmland and pine woods, looking for a town that felt exactly like an accidental detour. Then I added Largo Hillio, a national-park-meets-racing-circuit island stitched onto the map with a great suspension bridge. Finally, I dropped in the European Freeway Project, an eight-lane stretch of pan-continental motorway that makes Los Santos feel like a side street. One session later, San Andreas had become the world’s least coherent tourist atlas.

A Trilogy of Beautifully Unrelated Places

🗺️ Map add-on 🌲 What I found 🎮 Why I kept going back
Oldburries Fictional rural Canada with farmland, pine woods, and a sleepy town It feels like a wrong turn I actually wanted to take
Largo Hillio A national park crossed with a racing circuit, linked by a huge suspension bridge Perfect for low-flying planes and bad decisions
European Freeway Project An eight-lane pan-continental motorway It turns simple driving into a strange road trip

The best part? I loaded all three at once and literally flew between them. GTA 5 became a kind of DIY flight simulator, except instead of airports I was landing a stolen plane in a quiet Canadian town that had no idea why I was there. Why would I spend an evening doing that? Because the alternative is waiting for a release date that feels like a rumor with a marketing budget.

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FV Mods explains on the project page that the goal was simple: 'I just wanted to expand the world in ways Rockstar never will. GTA 5 is 10 years old—but that doesn’t mean the map has to be.' That line stuck with me. It is not a pitch for a polished expansion. It is one creator slowly surrounding the original San Andreas with new landmasses until the map resembles a very confused holiday brochure.

My DIY Flight Simulator

I started on the European Freeway Project, because eight lanes of motorway in a game about stealing cars felt weirdly right. Then I took off, crossed the bridge to Largo Hillio, and circled a racing island that should not exist next to a national park. Finally, I landed in Oldburries, where the pine trees and farmland made me forget I had just been on a pan-continental motorway. Can a map be both ridiculous and relaxing? Apparently, yes.

What I love most is the earnestness of it. This is not a corporate roadmap update. It is the kind of modding energy that can only come from someone who heard about the GTA 6 wait and took it personally. There is no grand design here—just a single creator adding places because they wanted to see what would happen. And what happens is that GTA 5 becomes a travel simulator with no customs, no airports, and no coherent geography.

Is It Coherent? No. Is It Glorious? Yes.

I would not call this a realistic expansion. I would call it a holiday brochure assembled by someone with too much caffeine and pure willpower. One minute I am on an eight-lane motorway; the next I am buzzing a quiet Canadian town in a stolen plane. Is it messy? Absolutely. Does it make me want to keep exploring? Also absolutely.

In 2026, GTA 5 is old enough to feel like a legacy game, but this trilogy proves the map does not have to be frozen in amber. If you fancy visiting rural Canada, a forested racing island, and an EU motorway in one sitting, this is your pre-Vice City pitstop. I came for a quick mod test. I stayed because I had accidentally built my own Grand Theft Multiverse—and I am still not ready to leave.

In-depth reporting is featured on PC Gamer, whose long-running coverage of GTA 5’s modding scene helps explain why sprawling map projects like Oldburries, Largo Hillio, and the European Freeway Project resonate with players still exploring Los Santos in 2026. Their reporting often emphasizes how community-made expansions can extend a game’s lifespan far beyond its original boundaries, which fits this DIY “Grand Theft Multiverse” approach perfectly.