New GTA: London unlikely, says Houser

I don't think they will set a GTA in London... Besides there is already "The Getaway" franchise who I've heard are developing a new installment for next-gen consoles (www.youtube.com/watch?v=mimyaLb-PvQ). I'd like to see a GTA set in the future though where you can drive flying vehicles and shoot laser weapons in a "Fifth Element" styled environment. Make it happen, Rockstar!

i think it would be badass to have a grand theft auto game set in london

He's not a talented enough writer is why. He knows it too, but in showbiz, making your company a billion dollars is the same thing as being good.

this sounds like a good idea

What utter weaksauce. Doing a 3D GTA London would be more fresh and original than every GTA game since 3. And I always thought the word 'can't' wasn't in Rockstar's vocabulary. Guess I was wrong. What utter tripe.

I love London. A quick travel Underground would be a nice as well. and perhaps a Harrods type store for multi level one stop shopping(Bar, guns, arcade, food, maybe a bank to rob). Rockstar would probably throw in a blue police box that shows up in random places. Maybe at some point.

I would love to blend GTA and Google Earth. Not really for the violence, but for exploring different places.

If you're gonna do a GTA in Europe then you're better of doing it across a number of European cities, using some sort of airport mechanic to transport. London, Monaco, Naples, Berlin, Moscow, Budapest, Luton. Pick some of those...

It's only a matter of time before this is doable.

@BradBurns @forbiddenmow

yeah. understood. i'm English. I live in London.

marketing is everything. there is a demographic risk of course. however, i'd say any game that is good enough can overcome that. e.g. COD4 wasn't set in US (ok, maybe a lame example but I can't be bothered to think of a better one).

problem is that the gameplay that features in GTA is pretty incongruous with English popular culture. we've been conditioned to feel comfortable with spectacular action crap happening in US cities for years in movies. it just doesn't work in UK. we just don't have the guns for starters. it would be a very hard sell for most gamers. of course, the irony is that this shit doesn't really happen in US cities either.

you can do action thrillers in Europe (as Bond and Bourne testify) but they have to have a different angle.

as for Europeans having self serving opinions on their culture. well yes, maybe. But I think it's fairly safe to say all culture's are prone to self aggrandising. the US being no exception.

there are a million ways to lampoon Europeans. we've been doing it to each other for centuries. and as for a place that can give you a witty, unflinching and scathing satire on the English then, trust me, you'd want the Scots up at Rock Star North in charge of that in front of the Californians any day.

Now they DO have a score to settle.

I'm okay with that decision, I just like RS open world games in general.

GTA: Blackburn, where nothing remotely exciting happens

GTA Scunthorpe? Hmmmm...

GTA: Manchester side quest would be going to the dole office every two weeks, "Eh uuuppp arrrrr kid!"

I personally am predicting that the next GTA game is going to take place in China (with Vice City taking a close second) anyone who has played thru the campaign in GTA V can probably guess why this is.

GTA mixing Liberty City from GTA IV, Los Santos from IV, and adding a remake of Vice City and the rest of San Andreas!! Do it, Rockstar and you'll make my dreams come true...!

GTA Antarctica !!! Drive on the ice and steal fish from the penguins.

Sci-fi GTA, now that needs to happen.

I could see a London GTA. Lock stock and two smoking barrels style, it would be nice to see. Maybe this is the place for the vita.

I reckon a san fierro or las vanturas expansions for gta v are next.

GTA: London could actually work.

The Scots that develop the GTA games masterfully lampoon many different aspects of modern American culture but Europe, and particularly England, is rife with satire opportunities.

The fact that they committed genocide on virtually all American natives under their rule and yet primarily talk about other European nations doing it is hilarious, also their nationalists are a riot what with their pretensions of believing that they are any sort of major world power and what not.

Also, they(nationalists) are very proud about being one of the first nations to abolish African slavery but they fail to say that they kept slavery in India going until 1920.

Also, England has some crazy classism when compared to the U.S. If you have more money you're just a better person.

It's a perfect location for lampooning what's wrong with the culture of Europe in general, what with all the hypocrisy and self-serving view of their history.

Don't get me wrong, this isn't coming from a place of hate, I love European culture(Britain, Spain, France, Italy, all of 'em), which is why I'm well aware of what's wrong with them. Plus, they could use a good lampooning.

But please develop GTA: London at Rockstar San Diego, it's only fair, right?

GTA: Hong Kong something similar like Sleeping Dogs.

I still like the hoax idea of a GTA set in 1970's Vegas.

DC would be perfect for GTA. One thing that's iconic about GTA is landmarks and DC has a shit ton of them.

Keep it in the U.S. Five is the best, still no flamethrower though, storyline is different. They need to leave out theaters, watching tv, stuff like yoga, aliens and zombies. It's a waste of console power. Countryside and city should be in these games. They need to get rid of those lines that wave around, don't think pc would fix it all either

GTA: Mexico City.

GTA VI: Canada EH!!! yes that needs to be the full title

@Rhaego85 @NoblesseOblige_ It really doesn't. There's a reason the most physical position a Rugby player has ever managed in the NFL is, I believe, punter.