10 Reasons GTA: London Would Never Work

Ever since the release of Grand Theft Auto 3 people have been asking when the multi-million selling Rockstar North title will head to London.

However, there would be a lot of problems with London being the backdrop for one of the most expansive and controversial games of all time. And, yes, we know the original Grand Theft Auto had a London 1969 mission pack – but we’re talking new, not top-down GTA and modern-day London.

[siyrobbo]

Both GTA and The getaway has already done a similar sort of thing based on london, if GTA were to do it, it wouldn't be as fresh

[Doc Sony]

Yeah I agree, having every GTA take place in Liberty City is a lot fresher.

/s

[Danteh]

This list is retarded, London is my favourite city along with Barcelona, where I'm from; and I think a GTA London would work very well taking into acccount all the important historical places it has.

Plus I want to go to f!cking Picadilly and shoot those giant screens ;)

[ReservoirDog316]

R* really is the most solid open world company like ever. They can make it fresh. Just imagine Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels as a game. Somewhere along that line I'd imagine GTA V would fall.

And I'd bet a million dollars GTA V will be in London. All the pieces are there if anyone cares to look. And I'll get it day 1.

[hennessey86]

because londons a giant shit hole i hate it more and more evry time i go

[kancerkid]

I would rather see a GTA set in a tropical paradise. What is so appealling about London, besides the fact that it is just another big city?

[Hideo_Kojima]

It splits well into 4 regions each with different gangster types.
Youth gangs always fight over their postcodes (it has become a trend for gangsters)

The river is pretty cool.

Lodes of green forests were you get stabbed if you go into at night.

[Tomdc]

NN4 BRUP BRUP!

[Hideo_Kojima]

You better not come walking around my endz blud when am petrolling the streetz fam.

[BYE]

GTA V should be set in a sunnier place like Rio or Cape Town, London is too gray and cold we already had this with Liberty City.

[masterg]

I'd love to see a city like Johannesburg, South Africa.
One of the most dangerous cities in the world.
You have the rich and the poor (the slums). You have the wild life outside the city.

[MrJack]

Lets rename this article to " Big London Hate bash"

Im a londoner Im offended by this article. A GTA London would be fantastic, a break from the series and I feel the change is needed to revitalize it, its becoming formulaic.

[hennessey86]

if they set in london i wont be buyin it id rather it be in manchester alot more interestin

[BYE]

I don't get it, 99% of GTA fans are not offended because the game is not taking place in their city or village, why are Londoners? Don't be so selfish...

GTA V should be set in a city that makes sense for the series, London would be too big of a stretch.

[Tomdc]

I think it could work.. but really wouldn't be to different to what they have already done.. I reckon going further afield like Dubai or Tokyo would be more interesting :)

On another note the guy that wrote this is one of the most cynical people I've ever come across!

[Hideo_Kojima]

London is a lot more like the first island on San Andreas... I has a few tall buildings in the middle and the rest is just flat.

It is not like Liberty City.

[PoSTedUP]

#1 liberty city GTAIII -------------> #4 liberty city re-done GTAIV
----------------------------- ------------------------------- --------------
#2 vice city ---------------> [#5] vice city re-done
#3 san andreas --------------> [#6] san andreas re-done

thats how i think they are going to do it. the name means nothing, GTA4 "liberty city" was excellent and huge, totally different from GTAIII

another Miami re-done, replicated.... yeah that would be sick.
then another LA.... in HD, next gen... cmon now, that would be something.

but then again, GTA does sell in the UK/ europe, so they might have to appeal to the fan base more over there and make a LONDON, that would make sense too!!!!

[Prototype]

GTA London 1969

http://cgi.ebay.com/GTA-LON...

Already came out, next city please

[halojunkie]

it will work!

[MikeGdaGod]

i wanna see..... CHICAGO!!!!!

[USEYOURFIST]

i get that your article was a joke but i enjoyed both getaway games and think gta london in modern day settings could be really good, just without the traffic, much like times square in gta 4

[Cajun Chicken]

If it's in London, it can't be called London, if you get what I mean. Yes, I know GTA London existed, but London should have it's own equivalent of a fictional place based upon the place, like Liberty City (New York).

[XactGamer]

London would be cool since I never been there I could go in a GTA game.

[Capdastaro]

GTA: Eastenders

[PyReX-]

Just make it like San Andreas and it would work

[sofocado]

Just make it like Liberty City it will definitively work.

[Uzesgelen_Goo]

Just make it like Tartarus it would work :)

[Syaz1]

someone who agrees with me. there's no continuity to the gta series, which comprise of liberty city, vice city and san andreas. besides, the whole premise of gta is about rockstar's view of america. i would leave it to the artists at rockstar to do what they think is best.

honestly, i think gta 4 is a great game, but like many art, it will be misunderstood by some.

[DJKGBYF]

GTA: Mexico. That way all the murders and drugs fit together more.

[Gish]

Actually that probably isn't a bad idea. Lord knows donkey shows and mexican standoff's would be welcome in the series. Not to mention having a bag of coke up your ass to smuggle it across the border.

[Malebaria]

Tokyo would be a good fit in my eyes.

[AliTheBrit19]

10 – Rockstar North

Rockstar North is a Scottish company. This is the same country that sells ‘Anyone But England’ T-shirts. Are they really going to set their top selling title in an English city? No.

- What the hell? you are labelling Rockstar as having something against England now? I'm half Scottish, and my Grandparents where Scottish but came down to live in England, and I class myself as English.

Also, really crappy and weak list.

[BBAM]

The general impression is the scots dispise the english and being part of the UK. Making a GTA game based in England would annoy alot of scottish games. Plus setting it in America makes it more appealing to the yanks which = more sales

[Pumbli]

BBAM - Too bad there already is a GTA London then, eh?

[BBAM]

That was years ago before GTA was as globally popular as it is now. Rockstar now would want to appeal to the majority of countries outside of England.
If there was going to be another GTA style sandbox game set in London, it would probably be the Getaway. Shame that it was cancelled seeing how the tech demo was very impressive.

[va_bank]

Us, Americans would sure hate driving on the other side of the road.

[Karum]

You drive on the correct side of the road in GTA? That's just the wrong way to play the game entirely sir!

[Syaz1]

is the road even the way yo go? pavements are the way to go, now enhanced with naturalmotion euphoria.

[claterz]

Since when did a GTA game involve staying on the correct side of the road? It's GTA you can do what the hell you want lol

[ZombieNinjaPanda]

10 Reasons Why The Author Hates England.

**Title fixed.

[sarshelyam]

Either you play GTA London or, as many have already pointed out, either of the Getaway games.

[Vip3r]

This article is a joke.

1. As a Scot, I'd like to see the next GTA in London. Plus RockStar was founded by two English Brothers, so it could still happen. Heck it's even happened before.

2. No-one cares about the daily mail.

3. How would transportation matter? :/

4. ...

Infact, this just seems like a "daily mail" style anti-london rant. If you had a bad time in London then that's your problem. Non of the points in this article would be of any problem for a game setting.

[graemed2005]

yup, its obvious the author was just grabbing at straws. I personally would love GTA London

[Microsoft Xbox 360]

GTA: Hawaii

The protagonist gets to hunt down Dog the Bounty Hunter.

[George Sears]

But watchout for the wife's shock absorbers.

[Dsnyder]

But the 3d GTA games were remakes of the 2d ones. They did liberty city, san andreas and vice city in 3d games but they have yet to redo london as a 3d game. Its the only logical path and I would be willing to be we ill see a grand theft london as the next GTA.

[AusWarrior]

They should have GTA: Sydney. Jumping off the harbour bridge would never get old :)

[Bodster]

As a Scot I would love to see Edinburgh or Glasgow in GTA, although London would still be great, I loved the Getaway games on PS2 :)

[Crusade]

There's already been a GTA set in london.

http://planetgrandtheftauto...

[Bodster]

Having a 3D version of London would be great though, there were 3 3D versions of Liberty City so why not show some London love? :)

[George Sears]

I prefer GTA games in the US because we are more culturally diverse. Seeing someone with an English accent in the US wouldn't be as weird as seeing someone speaking Creole (Haitian or Jamaican) in London.

So in a way, even though the location would be more American based, everybody would benefit. I'm puerto rican, I liked seeing some PR missions in GTA (not to mention the reggaeton radio station). The ballad for Gay Tony was awesome as well. Made me remember mis primos dominicanos de Harlem/Brooklyn.

[kaos_fish II]

Sorry dude,

Obvious you've never been to the UK then.. you can hear all languages there, Hindu, Urdu, Jamaican, Creole - have a Scouse a Georgie or a Brummie talk to you - you'll be scratching your head - I guarantee it

[Uzesgelen_Goo]

so true

[Yardie]

OK, im from london, and i have been to America twice, You have it backwards.
i don't know about America, but here the minorities make up the majority.

[Epicor]

You are way off here, mate. London is THE most multi-cultural city in the whole world. Sometimes you yanks really surprise me how self-oriented you are.

On topic. The article was horrible. Don't give this bs site any more hits.

I would love to see the next iteration of the series take place in Europe. Or Asia or Australia, or South America...but not USA this time. I'd love to see GTA equivalent of Paris, Rio de Janeiro or Barcelona. Or then Rock* should make the game even more violent, brutal and agonizing and make a really gritty versions of St.Petersburg, Chicago or Ciudad Juarez (Mexico).

[kaos_fish II]

Why not China or Asia as a whole - each region unlocks as you progress. China, Japan, N & S Korea, Singapore even throw in Australia, New Zealand maybe The Philippines.

[clarkdef]

I agree Ausie has heaps of cool outback areas, you could play as a drunken Abbo

[frjoethesecond]

Why are people saying tokyo. Thats basically what yakuza and shenmue were.

[oguzsasi]

istanbul will be in gta5

[Corrwin]

Actually the Boris Johnson and Survival horror thing sounds awesome :)

[iamgoatman]

My vote goes to GTA: Klingon