With Grand Theft Auto IV breaking records and taking names, Rockstar has decided that before EA commits it’s hostile take over, they had better get started on GTA V. I’m sure they believe, as we all do, that if Rockstar doesn’t get going on GTA V, they could find GTA IV being re-released without an I. Nobody wants that.
The first order of business is to find a city. They’ve already done New York, LA, Vegas, San Fransisco and Miami, so it’s time to think about a change of scenery. This month, Rockstar will be sending out a team of “specialists” to evaluate a list of cities. An inside source with Rockstar cited, on the condition of anonymity, that the cities would be chosen for their “personality and exotic nature.”
Here’s the exclusive list of the finalists, in no specific order.
Beijing, China
Yao Ming, dynasties, chopsticks, and communism, these are the things that come to mind when I think of China. Well, that and Free Tibet with a few human rights violations thrown in.
One of the “pros” for Beijing is that their citizens are no strangers to having their rights infringed upon. At any moment they could be murdered as part of Police brutality, collateral damage, or just run the f*** over metaphorically and literally. Transforming this into GTA V’s city wouldn’t be that big of a plunge.
Beijing is also major transportation hub. Getting to run around and car jack people deep inside Red China would be quite taboo, especially since the cops are just like the army and will shoot you for looking at them the wrong way, although Rockstar lists this as a positive. The good news is that you will always be able to “third world” someone, since the cops will all be rocking AK-47’s. The downside is that due to massive pollution, most people are ridding bicycles, by order of the government. I guess it would be the first copy of the game with a unicycle race.
One negative is that the ability to do the proverbial “Movin’ on up” will be difficult in this setting because most people don’t live as extravagantly as Tommy Vercetti in Vice City, with his Scarface style lodgings. It will just have to be less modest government issued housing. Sounds like motivation to me.
Paris, France
Ah, France…. the sights, the sounds, the surrendering? Thought by many to be the world center of culture and art, this historic city is full of awesome things to be smashed, blown up and jumped.
The French are considered to be stereotypically snobby and left wing in nature. I could think of no one better to pull out of their car while they cursed at me. Police chases will be a bit different feeling, with the distinct European police siren.
There are tons of expensive art in that city. Much like the car jacking missions, I could see having to run in to a gallery, steal a painting and get it back to a location with out damaging it. Nothing ruins a good painting like a bullet or a piece of shrapnel.
On the down side, shooting French citizens may be too good to pass up, which may overshadow the story that Rockstar spends so much time and money on. I’ll tell you what, there’s no way I’m doing a fetch quest when there’s surrender monkeys to carjack.
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Manchester,England…..theres guns,drug,brothels,gangs,multicultured,good transport system (but a negetive is that there arent enough internationally recognised landmarks….except Old Trafford,home of the best team in the world*offically*)…If not Manchester(which I very much doubt it will be) It should definatley be London….and yes,I know that there is a GTA London but it isnt one of the next generation games is it?
fuck england , and austrailia nobody likes those places
why not london, i no its been done but thats was years ago wen it was a add on on the birds eye view days. London has everything this game needs
fuck london
or amsterdam lol
im not sayin this is a fake, but there’s gotta be atleast 1 american city to be a finalist
I think they should do a full Euro scene. With multiple maps from London to Munich to Rome and even Paris. All the major US cities have been covered its time to take this game international. They also need to integrate a system for car customization and add more Air crafts. A flame thrower would be very nice.
your late theres flame throwers are in vice city , lib city stories , vice city stories and sanan dres
I saw Y not the mid-west. They already done all da coast, u got da east (New York), south (Florida), and West (Cali). Like Detroit or sumtin, get all da areaz of america I say.
it would be good if they made gta in australia like gta v melbourne or gta v sydney
Why not just make the game based on the WHOLE ENTIRE WORLD! Think of the possibilities! Go anywhere you want in the world with a controller. Now yes, it would take a truck load of memory on the disc, time, and money to do this, but just think of how awesome it would be.
I think it should be Glasgow lol
I personally listed them all down, all the pros and cons, landscape, features that could be included, and I came out with Cancun as my personal finalist.
Second was France. I can see France being a bit like IV with the whole urban feel to it. But Cancun brings back the classical feeling of the whole San Andreas world.
Venice is an absolute no-no. The lack of decent land will put limits on cars, and I’m 100% sure the players will not enjoy that.
But I guess we’ll just have to wait a see, won’t we?
I say Chicago. Its got a high crime rate, its absolutely massive. Its got sky scrapers and a large body of water nearby. Plus they could integrate season weather patterns into it… its got hot stormy summers and cold, snowy winters. Imagine running from the cops in two feet of snow? It’d be something new.
rockstar shud av gone to
Jersey, Channel Islands
Hollywood, Los Angeles
London, England
Well…GTA IV was “going back” to Liberty City from GTA III but Liberty City was improved. I, personally, loved GTA San Andreas, maybe they could go back and “recreate it” with new characters and stuff. I’m thinking though that this GTA V will be one in Russia or something, just because of the character that they picked for GTA IV. I didn’t like the storyline for GTA IV though :/ but the gameplay was great.
u think they should do Honolulu, Hawaii too since all GTA’s are all surrounded by water why not Hawaii, that would be really cool, but then again there doesnt seem to be alot of highly populated area’s where its covered in skyscrappers and thats what gta always needs, because what would a game be without highly dense cities? you might as well have GTA Backroads if your not going to have a huge city
gta v should be in north dakota or iraq
gta v should be in irq and you guys should put kids in gta v and if gta v is gonna be in iraq there should be a war going on there and you guys should also put animals in gta v and you guys should put walmart target and evry other real stores you guys should pick mine
you guys should put a cheat code on gta v were you can be god and you can make someone who was dead alive and you can do any thing plzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz pick mine
you guy should make a gta v were your a cop pick mine
you guys should make gta v were you live in north dakota and you can shoot cattle pick mine and other kind of animals
I think we can all agree that Mos Eisley would be the perfect city. You’ll never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy.
Im cold turkin for another GTA after GTA IV. It better be happein llf
I think it would be good if they make it within whole england or italy would be good aswell but why does EA have to takeover if they takeover GTA will be destroyed
I’d take any of those City listed besides China, it just seems sooo boring. No offense to Chinese people, but they seem a little purdish, could you imagine if rockstar used some ancient Chinese building in the game and re-named it then maybe a shooting mission takes place in that building? Then we’d probably silly law suits saying things like rockstar is disrespecting the chinese or something. Paris or Cancun would be cool.
Besides the very first one in London, the rest have been in the US, they should do Europe or maybe Asia(Tokyo) or even Australia.
Well all of those citys sound great just the american citys….. anyway.. i woud like if it took place in the 60-70`s? with hipper-crap and vietnam war and pure sex, drugs and rock n roll? and of course CRIMES!!! to comit:D
LONDON, GERMANY!! TOKYO, JAPAN etc…
omg i think they should do like a gta online an get missions to kill somone but like an actul someone in the world (not really kill them just in the game obviously) if not id say a big city with big buildings like new york but dont do new york again i wouldnt mind london and mybe dubai
maybe hawaii aswell nothig better than catching waves and if someone is ripping everyone just a gd sho threw the head and watch as they drift away or push someone ino a volcano off a helicopter lol thatd be funny
i think Kuala Lumpur,Malaysia is a great place for gta V….
for me only 3 cities could be good
London
Moscow or St. Petersburg
Tokyo
Return to CJ would be a suicide, all that gangstarr and rap shit was gay. R* said that SA was their most stupid idea.
WTF r u talking about rhaziel? are u thick in the head or something? San andreas opened a shit load of opportunities for R*, some even GTA IV could’nt even accomplish. I hope GTA V is in London, like the first GTA from back in the day.
I think it will be Vice City, since there are at least 2 elements of GTA IV that involve it: 1. The Diamonds-after you beat the game, there’s a news report or something that says a hobo moved to Vice after finding 2million $ worth of diamonds at a garbage dump. These are the same Diamonds that weave their way throughout GTA IV’s storyline. 2. The Russians’ speedboat cocaine- In “Catch the Wave” the coke that you jack from the Russians for Phil Bell comes on speedboats from Vice City. These Russians are either a Florida extension of the Faustin/Rascalov organization or an aligned group. It would be cool to have a modern day Vice City, especially since it would probably draw inspiration from Bad Boys II and the Miami Vice movie. If it’s not set there, I would say London, San Andreas, Chicago, Detroit, or a Texas City like El Paso or Houston are the most likely candidates.
The whole corrupt cop thing would be pretty cool. Instead of getting arrested for stealing cars, you could claim you need them to pursue someone; this is something cops do in real life. You could also confisicate weapons and add them to your arsenal (beats having to buy them all the time) and you’d have access to police helicopters and stuff right off the bat. R* probably won’t do it in the near term because they’d have balance your virtual immunity from getting arrested and the above stuff (they’d basically have to set up new gameplay mechanics). I still think V’s gonna be in Vice City. I hope they bring back businesses and the ability to bribe cops for your weapons if you get busted. I also hope they tweak the aiming so that it doesn’t lock on to random nearest people, but instead the nearest enemy ( haven’t had too many proplems w/ it, but that can get annoying during long or intense missions).
how about Dallas, Texas theres so much that goes on here plus theres so much to do, and plenty of sight seeing. also plenty of crime activity. before you go judging me im from dallas so i know what its like lol
I think if I were to choose based on relative crime rates, gangs, income disparity, and aesthetics, I would choose from the following:
1. Rio De Janeiro
2. Sao Paulo
3. Miami
4. Philadelphia
5. Naples
6. Moscow
7. LA/Long Beach
8. Shanghai
9. Tokyo
10. Detroit
Lewiston, ID
we got everything to do, helicopter tours, an airport, water parks, rivers all around us (boats).. mills, factories, bridges … barges, marinas, tons of bars and restaurants … it would be sick
Its far fetched but i think it should be the whole of North America. You could pick a state to start in and you get a different character and story depending where you start.
And make it more of a free roaming game by being able to kick any door in and hide from cops in bins or climb down man holes and run through the sewers.
You could have characters from all the old GTA games too. Like a suicidal Niko, living on a bench, mourning the loss of Roman. Imagine meeting up with an informer and not being able to see them but knowing who it is from the obvious Lil Jacob voice.
And add an estate agent where new houses go up for sale everytime you kill a family.
That’d be sweeeet
Sweet!
They already did London but that was on one of the first games. They should do another one in London but in 3D.
I really think they should do Barcelona like Wheelman. XD
Otherwise, Paris would be cool….. 8D
Actually…..Somewhere in england would be perfect!! It would be really funny; you could break into buckingham palace and climb up Big Ben and snipe some people.
i think it should definately be done in middlesbrough, england, or the whole of teesside. seems as its apparently the worst place to live in the UK, so rockstar should contribute to this
with all the drugs, guns, fighting and car thefts, i think this game would be really fun 
keep it in america
DUDE, it should Philadelphia, PA, hands down. think about it, Philly has the some of the highest murder and crime rates, and it is right next to Camden, NJ, which they could include. Philly is a drug infested city where half the kids are criminals.
and for wen they do do GTA 5, they should make it so we can fly a plane, (like in GTA: San Andreas) and a helicopter, (like in GTA 4)
philadelphia
(call it Killadelphia: the city of brotherly murders)
kansas would be awsome think bout it gangs and farmers all in one yayayayayay!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
GTA KC sounds great hahaha
u need animals like dogs cats and such more to kill lolz >:)
They’d probably be able to do Cancun, Havana, and maybe Kingston, Jamaica in one game – I’d do that!
ok paris no they,d be going de n,le ,la like that if ur going 2 choose paris make sure they are in english i think hawaii would be good if u put it on the list.
gta will be crap if EA take over because they cant do highly detailed people
gta v should be based in edinburgh where rockstar north is based
Soooo nice! ;D
I think GTA V should be based on London or Birmingham. Like comment #15 has said. London has 4 parts and has lots of gangs. Secondly, if London is unavailable then I would recommend Birmingham just because it is filled with Asian, Jamaicans, Africans, Chinese and white gangs. They do battle for respect and power. However that’s my biased opinions. Because I live in UK. So, if UK is unavailable again, I would choose Africa. Preferably, Somalia or South Africa. But I think GTA V will not based in poor areas due to its risks.
If GTA was based in Paris I would not buy it because its stupid. If I brought it and played it, I will be smelling a garlic coming out of my T.V.
In Serbia, the city Belgrade. Let Niko come back to his country
i think that gta v should be in paris but they should make an arae 51 with ufo and alien and they should bring back bycylcels there should also be a mission where he gos into the eiffel tower to kill the boss of the french mafia i thin k they should bring back cj john son to the game cuz he was the best