Would this be
GTA London?
Rumor - Grand Theft Auto: London for PS3 in Q4 2006
Posted Dec 27th 2005 5:30PM by Dan Choi
Filed under: PC, Sony PlayStation 3, Action, Adventure, Driving
GTA: London (from the older expansion pack)According to an alleged employee of Rockstar North in Glasgow, Scotland, the next installment in the GTA series "will be titled Grand Theft Auto: London and will take place in the Great City of London in 1997."
If true, this sounds suspiciously like Rockstar trying to claim the "Great City" back from Sony's supposed usurpers to the crime-drivin' throne. Also, if you recall, there was a PC expansion to the first GTA in 1999 called Grand Theft Auto: London 1969, so this is either a bad rumor or a likely remake of old material.
We here at Joystiq hear a lot of crazy rumors about games, of course, but we sometimes wonder what to make of anonymous tipsters who claim to work for certain "developers of interest." Read on for the other details we received, and make the decision for yourself.
According to our source (who admittedly doesn't have the most perfect spelling), the "3 Island" system will be replaced by a new "North, East, South, West" system, and the main character will be an ex-gangster starting off in the "rough-and-tumble east end of London." Unlocked regions are to include the North End, South End, and West End, in order. The game is supposed to be about 60% finished, with the graphics and physics engines both completed. The focus is now mainly on the game's story component. The game is currently set to launch with the Playstation 3 in North America and Europe in Q4 2006. With about a year's work already done, the PlayStation 3's "fantastic graphical power" should provide some better horsepower under the hood of the sandbox series.
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Grand Theft Auto III-era
Grand Theft Auto III (2001) brought a third-person view to the series, rather than the traditional top-down view of earlier titles. Multiplayer was discarded but GTA III improved in many other areas such as voice-acting and storyline. The game sold very well and became the first blockbuster game in the series, setting the precedent for subsequent GTA titles to be very successful. GTA III also attracted heavy criticism for its violent content, making future games in the GTA series synonymous with violence. Following the success of GTA III, there have been three stand-alone Grand Theft Auto sequels (though all three are technically prequels to GTA III):
* Grand Theft Auto: Vice City (2002), set in 1986 in a city inspired in many ways by the movie Scarface (Scarface and TV series Miami Vice. It is a loose spin-off of GTA III with some returning characters shown as their younger selves.
* Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (2004), set in 1992 in a fictional state resembling California and Nevada, and features some of the first attempts at series continuity, and included many new RPG elements. Throughout, there are references to previous games, most notably the main character from GTA III and several posters referring to GTA: Vice City. San Andreas received particular attention by the public when a sex minigame that was cut from the game, but left in the game code, was discovered in both the console and PC versions of the game . As a result, GTA: San Andreas was pulled from a number of retail outlets and was re-rated from "M" (Mature) to "AO" (Adults Only) by the Entertainment Software Rating Board (ESRB); the first game in the series to be given an AO rating. Rockstar has since released a sanitized version of the game for both PC and Playstation, and reclaimed the "M" rating.
* Grand Theft Auto Advance (2004), originally intended to be a topdown conversion of GTA III, it ended up becoming its own completely original adventure featuring both new and familiar characters.
* Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories (2005), a Playstation Portable prequel set in 1998 Liberty City.
* Grand Theft Auto for PSP 2 (2006); a new Grand Theft Auto is scheduled to come out in October 2006 for the Playstation Portable. Details are unknown at the moment.
Rockstar North has also developed the controversial Manhunt video game, which is set in the GTA world (Carcer City, mentioned on one of Grand Theft Auto III's radio stations as a neighboring city)
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Grand Theft Auto IV-era
* Grand Theft Auto IV, As of E3 2006 it was announced that GTA IV will be released on Oct. 16th, 2007. It will be released on PS3 and XBOX 360 on the same day, with exclusive downloadable content for XBOX Live marketplace.
The following info may be out of date hints by Rockstar to be released for PlayStation 3 in October 2006 [1], rumoured to be an eight month exclusive, meaning it will be released for other machines sometime during middle to late 2007.
