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VBG: GTA Heading Back to London?

With the success of both the retail version of GTA IV and it's Lost & Damned downloadable expansion, will Rockstar look to branch out into other subject matter -- other countries?
italianbreadman - contributor
Published: 273 days 13 hours ago | Article | PlayStation 3 | Xbox 360 | Gaming
 
 

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cain141 - 273 days 13 hours ago
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I'd love to see a different country. Just let me fly air planes again!
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RKRigney - 273 days 13 hours ago
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Yeah I'd although one of those double decker buses would be fun to mow down folks with ;D
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cain141 - 273 days 13 hours ago
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Hijack double decker and mow people over all while sightseeing london...

Sounds like a win to me...
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cayal - 273 days 12 hours ago
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I'd definitely like to see a new country instead of America.

But I also would like to see a mixture of city and urban like San Andreas.
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Mindboggle - 273 days 12 hours ago
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Even though I live in England a GTA in London wouldnt be fun, as there isnt really much there except buildings,roads and a few parks. It would need to have some crazyiness to it like vice city or san andreas to make it really fun again, unlike GTA4 which was an amazing story but not really that much to do after.

I remember playing the Getaway, it had an amazing story but the free-roaming was very boring as it was constant buildings and roads with only a few cool spots due to the London setting being boring.
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whoelse - 273 days 11 hours ago
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I preference Vice City in HD in the 1980s again.
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Danja - 273 days 11 hours ago
1.6 - @whoelse
I was gonna say the same thing...
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Wenis - 273 days 9 hours ago
1.7 - I went the next GTA to take place on the Texas/Mexican border.
If you cross the border without a passport you automatically get 5 stars!
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poindat - 273 days 9 hours ago
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A different country will be interesting, but the entire GTA series is based around a stereotype of American culture. That's what all the humor is based off of, and I can't see that translating well to other country's cultures.

But a different locale certainly would be interesting, at least in terms of exploring.
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DominusRebellis - 273 days 8 hours ago
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The Getaway anyone?
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SirLarr - 273 days 13 hours ago
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RockNRolla kicked ass, but The Getaway was very obviously trying to ape Richie's style. They even copied some of the more clever dialoge from his movies, it was pretty shameless.
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iHEARTboobs - 273 days 12 hours ago
2.1 - RockNRolla
Hell yeah that was a kickass movie. I hope there's a sequal to that like it stated in the end of the movie.
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italianbreadman - 273 days 13 hours ago
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I'd be interested to see a GTA: Tokyo.
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Arsenic13 - 273 days 12 hours ago
3.1 - Agree
Would love to see some Yakuza stuff. But London would be easier to have funny things. In Tokyo they don't speak English so the civilians would be either all English speakers or say stuff in Japanese.
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shoinan - 273 days 12 hours ago
3.2 - If not London
I'd love to see it go to Tokyo. But then again, there's always Yakuza. Hmm...
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Hellsvacancy - 273 days 13 hours ago
4 - Bring it back to the Uk
Great Britains far more interesting the than Us (in terms of criminology) i can imagine Gta with a Lock Stock And Two Smoking Barrels/Only Fools And Horses sort of theme itll totally rock
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Viewtiful - 273 days 13 hours ago
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What are you talking about? It would be exactly the same lol.
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iHEARTboobs - 273 days 12 hours ago
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Lock Stock is a great movie!
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psnSkareFace - 273 days 10 hours ago
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whats more interestiong than mafia, vegas, la (bloods crips)
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Ocelot3997 - 273 days 13 hours ago
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God that would be so cool. Though I can't help but wonder just how different a virtual London would be from Liberty city. The only difference I can think of is that instead of regaining health with hot dog stands, he'd stop in a pub for a pint and some fish&chips.
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SlamVanderhuge - 273 days 13 hours ago
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Anything different like that would be welcome. Id prefer Tokyo as well, but London would be pretty sweet
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TheReclaimer - 273 days 13 hours ago
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GTA Africa, but then so many people would be offended that it wouldn't even be funny.
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Heath134 - 273 days 13 hours ago
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I vote for a different country. It would be awesome.
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psnSkareFace - 273 days 13 hours ago
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i wouldnt like that much but if u could ply it between the 1970's and 1980's as an IRA member blowing the sh*t out of the english
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Mexico619 - 273 days 12 hours ago
10 - no!!
no! i want them to make it after Houston,TX because they always made it after the biggest cites in the U.S new york,Los angeles,Miami,they should make Houston because its the 4th biggest city in the U.S.
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Arsenic13 - 273 days 12 hours ago
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I say Tokyo
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shoinan - 273 days 9 hours ago
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You say Kyoto.
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MrJack - 273 days 12 hours ago
12 - I would love it!
But as the American media seem to believe we are all D1ckenzien urchins from the 1830's or upper class turn of the century posh bastards, it would probably just be a massive cringe fest, like all the British family guy jokes, or all those hilarious British bad guys!
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psnSkareFace - 273 days 10 hours ago
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i no cause like the english are so hard
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Wrex the Krogan - 273 days 12 hours ago
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The Grand Theft Auto series are a parody of American culture. I can't see it working in other places, I really can't.
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BetaChris - 273 days 11 hours ago
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I have complete faith in Rockstar - if they think a GTA title would work in a different country, then who are we to doubt them?
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Official General - 273 days 12 hours ago
14 - GTA games should only be based in on cities in the USA.
I really do believe the GTA series are only suited to be based on American cities. America just seems to have the perfect organzied crime scene that is replicated in GTA games - Mafia, Latino drug cartels, Russian Mafia, Mexican gangs, Black gangs etc. Major American cities are recognizable to most people in the world even if they have never been there. The satirical nature of GTA's humour and flavour can only be possible because it's based on the creators love of gangsters and American culture. Dan and Sam Houser have always stated this as the basis of their GTA creation. London and Tokyo are already covered in crime games anyway.

You have the Getaway that caters for London and Yakuza that already looks after Tokyo. Why would Rockstar want to bother basing the next GTA on these places when they've already been done by other devs in the same genre? It dont make sense.

Rockstar should just make an updated, modern version of Vice City (possibly with a whole Florida state, only possible with Blu-Ray though) and make the main character a Latino drug cartel guy, plus all the best missing features from previous GTA titles, newer better features and add-ons. If Rockstar would that, then I'D BE ONE VERY HAPPY AND EXCITED MAN as I'm a MASSIVE GTA fan.

EDIT: And before anyone tries to attack me on this, I must eagerly point out that I'm from London, born and raised and I live there. London does have a thriving, and extensive organized crime scene, and yeah believe it or not London these days can be a dangerous place in parts. However from what I see living here, it certainly pales in comparison to what goes on in the organized crime scene in most large American cities. Even medium-sized American cities on their own like Detroit, New Orleans, Newark and Pittsburg have much higher crime/murder rates and drug-related problems than London.
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bonesmccoy - 273 days 11 hours ago
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Wait a sec! GTA 4 we know is a success, but we don't know anything about TLAD yet. MS has announced that it made more money on its first day than any other Xbox Live release, but then it was the most expensive at $20, so that really doesn't clear much up.
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inFAMOUS_KRATOS - 273 days 10 hours ago
16 - THEY NEED TO USE BLURAY EXCLUSIVELY ON PS3
they could fit the whole europe in there , give us the german autobun highway!! let us attend games and fight against hooligans in london.
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OOG - 273 days 10 hours ago
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Id love to see them go back to london... wlould like to see a gangster style london movie for the game... like Snatch etc
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psnSkareFace - 273 days 10 hours ago
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here some were with real crime and history

http://www.youtube.com/watc...

if you watch it theres a bit were you see two men get pulled out of a car they were brits spying on a ira funeral they wont do that again as they were... will u will no if u watch it
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PirateThom - 273 days 10 hours ago
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Heh, on that point, I vote GTA Belfast.

Just have a couple of riots going on at flash point areas for authenticity and a few burnt out cars on various streets. You've got gangs, you've got drugs, you've got guns.
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inFAMOUS_KRATOS - 273 days 10 hours ago
19 - irish mafia and the italians or the german ksb!!
europe would make perfect gta !! come rockstar sam houser is from scotland!! give us some homeland violence with all !! warfare between irish mafia and the italians based in europe!!
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psnSkareFace - 272 days 17 hours ago
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irish mafia u mean ira
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No Way - 273 days 8 hours ago
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Go to India, Japan, or China! I think thatd be the shiiit.
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blackparade man - 273 days 7 hours ago
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They could set it here in Belfast lol, got the ganges UVF,IRA killing one an other, trust me.....there a bunch of retards.
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Slinkey - 273 days 7 hours ago
22 - Next GTA should be somewhere in Africa
Just look at this cover art! lol


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TheProfessional - 273 days 5 hours ago
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To be an all time classic V needs to be either a true sequel to Vice City or a game in Vegas/Boston/Los Angeles with Italian Mafia and/or Brotherhood status Irish Mob.

Personally I'd rather save London for Getaway 3 and Tokyo for Yakuza 3, since they're both direct sequels to legitimate action games that have already done a good job with both places. Besides, San Andreas and games like Saints Row 1 and 2 provide more than enough of the "hood" characters/jokes/storylines.
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shoinan - 273 days 3 hours ago
24 - Doubt there's going to be a Getaway 3
They were making one but it got cancelled a while back, not sure people liked those games enough to make another one.
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Johandevries - 272 days 20 hours ago
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VICE
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gidzilla - 272 days 16 hours ago
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Somehow I don't think GTA Belfast is very likely, although it would be interesting for many, for people old enough to actually remember the IRA bombings and those that have lost family in war in Northern Ireland it is still a very sore subject.

" irish mafia u mean ira " is one of the most dangerously ignorant comments imaginable.

GTA : Johannesburg could be good, but, unlikely.
GTA : London would kick up a right fuss in the media, but what GTA game doesn't?
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blackparade man - 272 days 15 hours ago
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True it's still a very touchy subject over here, If they based it around the IRA or UVF etc I wouldn't buy and it would probably get banned over here any way. The game would just fuel the hate.
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