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Save Icon inside the Ocean View Hotel

Save Points are icons that allows the player to save their game. They appeared in every Grand Theft Auto game, with the exception of Grand Theft Auto III. Save points are always found at the player's safehouses, since the player can't save the game by simply accessing the game's menu.

These save icons can be found mostly outside of the player's safehouse, allowing them quicker time to save their game. However, some can be found inside safehouses that are accessible to the player, providing the player with a safer environment to save their progress. Saving the game will also advance time by six hours.

Designs[]

Every game in the Grand Theft Auto series have a specialized design for save points that corresponds to the year that the game takes place. In Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, the icon is represented as a floating pink disc with pink cassette tape inside. In Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, the save icon is represented as a blue floppy disk with the "San Andreas" logo on the label. In Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories, the save icon is a black floppy disk with "Grand Theft Auto" in the top left-hand corner. In Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories, the save icon is represented as a floating CD.

Grand Theft Auto III is the only game in the series that doesn't utilize save icons. In order for the player to save their game progress, Claude must walk through the front door of his safe house, which will close behind him, which in turn will bring up the save menu.

Starting with Grand Theft Auto IV and onwards, save icons have since been removed. Players now save their games by sleeping in the bed at the protagonist's safehouse. Like the predecessors, sleeping in the game will also advance time forward. In Grand Theft Auto Online, sleeping in the bed at the player's safehouse will not save the game as well as not advance time as the session that the player is playing on is being ran under a public server. Instead, the game will frequently auto save the player's progress as they play the game.

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