The Grand Theft Auto video games have at all times been synonymous with America; Americana is baked into the crime collection’ very being. Throughout its historical past, there’s solely ever been one GTA recreation set exterior America: the London-based growth of the unique recreation.
GTA 6 follows this template, parodying the American state of Florida and town of Miami. However what in regards to the subsequent recreation – will the collection at all times be in America? Not essentially.
In an interview with The Guardian, Rockstar North co-studio boss Rob Nelson propped the proverbial door open a sliver by saying: “By no means say by no means.” He then shortly adopted that remark with: “However there’s nonetheless a lot to do in America”.
This can be a subject Rockstar has responded to earlier than, most notably when firm co-founder and long-time GTA author Dan Houser – who’s not at Rockstar – mentioned why the collection at all times appeared to return to America. He stated it was as a result of cities like Miami and New York and Los Angeles are locations the place excessive juxtapositions exist. They’re locations the place excessive wealth rubs shoulders with excessive poverty, and the place organised crime might be discovered.
There’s additionally one thing America infamously has that few different international locations do, and that is free availability of weapons, which is such a core tenet of a GTA expertise.
However, Obbe Vermeij – a former technical director at Rockstar North – revealed final yr {that a} GTA: Tokyo nearly occurred. Nonetheless, it wasn’t going to be made by Rockstar however slightly an exterior staff in Japan.
Whereas discussing the topic, Vermeij referred to America as “mainly the epicenter of Western tradition”. “Everyone is aware of the cities, even individuals who have not been there,” Vermeij stated. “They’ve a psychological picture of the cities. I am afraid we’re caught on this loop of about 5 American cities. Let’s simply get used to it.”
GTA 6 is simply days away from its nineteenth November launch on PS5 and Xbox Collection X/S. Rockstar not too long ago clarified the sport runs at 30FPS throughout all platforms and confirmed that whereas it is out there via Xbox Cloud Gaming, it can’t be streamed to PCs or non-Xbox units.