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11 Overview
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3-The increase in enterable buildings is closely tied to one of the game's core gameplay pillars: theft and robbery. With so many accessible interiors, players have far more opportunities to engage with the robbery systemexplore hidden areas, discover loot, and interact with NPCs in indoor environments.
3+The increase in enterable buildings is closely tied to one of the game's core gameplay pillars: theft and robbery. With so many accessible interiors, players have far more opportunities to engage with the robbery system explore hidden areas, discover loot, and interact with NPCs in indoor environments.
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55 Building Categories
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77 Rockstar has not published a full list of enterable buildings; pre-release reporting suggests they fall into two broad categories with different levels of accessibility.
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1010 Smaller Buildings
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1212 Smaller commercial buildings such as shops, pawn shops, gas stations, convenience stores, laundromats, and fast-food restaurants are reportedly all enterable. These locations are spread throughout the map and serve as both exploration points and potential robbery targets. 
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1414 Large Buildings
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1616 Larger structures such as hotels, skyscrapers, banks, and shopping malls have a reported accessibility rate of approximately 40%. This means that roughly four out of every ten major buildings can be entered. Some of these larger interiors feature working elevators, multiple floors, and active NPC populations going about daily routines. Fully explorable malls with functional stores on multiple levels have been specifically mentioned in insider reports.
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1818 Confirmed Interior Types
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2020 Comparison to Previous GTA Games
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2222 Gameplay Implications
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24-The increase in enterable buildings changes how players interact with the game world. Rather than treating most buildings as solid, impassable geometry, players can duck into shops to escape police pursuitsdiscover hidden items inside businesses, and plan robberies by physically scouting locations from the inside. The interplay between interior access and the robbery system creates a gameplay loop where almost any commercial building is a potential target.
24+The increase in enterable buildings changes how players interact with the game world. Rather than treating most buildings as solid, impassable geometry, players can duck into shops to escape police pursuits discover hidden items inside businesses, and plan robberies by physically scouting locations from the inside. The interplay between interior access and the robbery system creates a gameplay loop where almost any commercial building is a potential target.
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2626 Interior spaces also serve as venues for NPC interactions. Shops have staff and customers going about their routines, restaurants seat and serve patrons, and malls feature crowds moving between stores. This level of interior population contributes to the overall sense of a living, breathing world.
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2828 Source Reliability