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New Grand Theft Auto in 2009?

Rumors start flying about a new GTA by the end of the year. I vote for Neo-Tokyo.

Yes. Sold. LA looks exactly like Tokyo in the future.
Yes. Sold. LA looks exactly like Tokyo in the future.
** Update**: Be sure to check out the newest Grand Theft Auto: Episodes from Liberty City, coming exclusively to the Xbox 360 October 29, 2009. It'll include both The Lost & Damned as well as the newer Ballad of Gay Tony.
 

There's plenty of of Grand Theft Auto content on the horizon with The Lost and Damned and China Town Wars, but how about a whole new game and location for the series? Rumors are flying about the next big installment in the series coming as early as the end of 2009. The newest issue of Game Informer apparently contains the following vague snippet between its pages:

We're not talking about new DLC or a collection of previously available DLC, we're talking about a full retail game. We expect this title to follow the suit of previous GTAs and use a subtitle such as GTA: San Andreas, etc. Tokyo might be a possible setting for the game, but details are non-existent at this time.


I personally haven't seen the issue, so I can't vouch for its validity or put it into more context, but if they're talking about a new GTA IV-style game, color me excited. Tokyo would be a great choice, though I wonder what time period would be best. Maybe it's time for Grand Theft Auto to head into the future so we can start having sex with prostitute replicants and throw them out of our hovercars to get our creds back.

Thanks to PSU for the tip.

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Dude, Tokyo has been rumored since GTA:III. I call Bogus.

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Hope it's San Andreas stories. Or GTA: Space City.

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i think GTA should stay in the USA...

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Really after all these games, USA has gotten tired. It's easy to satire any place, just gear the jokes around the situation or the basic human condition so as not to alienate people.

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GTA AFRICA!

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Hmm, Neo-Tokyo?  I hope we get to ride on the bikes from Akira!

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Yes, neo-tokyo- starring deltron 3030 imo.  Video game of the 3030 album would be amazing.

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they need 2 make san andreas storys that wud b the coolest

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Is there nobody out there who wants to see GTA set in Istanbul? Amazing city and awesome locations....that would be a good one....

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Tokyo? who will mess with the fuzzers over there! GTA set in London in the 60's would be awsome. Long hair and bar fights, nasty all british gangsters.

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Bring Back GTA London All The Way

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they should make a new gta set in the U.K and make it more realistic!!! :)

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i rekon they should have PLANES in the new grand theft auto and have a MASIVE map and they should have a country side like grand theft auto sanandreas also
it should be a place outside of the usa country and there should be alot of different types of people with different acents also they should bring back the chop shop lists and a few more activities as well so when you finish the game there is a bit more to do

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hong kong would be tight

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I'm not convinced by that image at all, but neither am I interested in a new GTA.

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gta: sierra leone. that would be so awesome. diamond smuggling!

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@Vinny: Yeah would love to see a futuristic  Grand Theft Auto game. It would be so fun hijacking a hover car! I just can't imagine a new GTA game coming out so soon.
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@Wolverine said:
" @Vinny: Yeah would love to see a futuristic  Grand Theft Auto game. It would be so fun hijacking a hover car! I just can't imagine a new GTA game coming out so soon. "
Rockstar used to ship a new GTA game every year back in the old days  . Given the fact that current generation games take at least twice to make we can assume that a new GTA game should hit the stores in 2010 . 
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@daniel_beck_90 said:
" @Wolverine said:
" @Vinny: Yeah would love to see a futuristic  Grand Theft Auto game. It would be so fun hijacking a hover car! I just can't imagine a new GTA game coming out so soon. "
Rockstar used to ship a new GTA game every year back in the old days  . Given the fact that current generation games take at least twice to make we can assume that a new GTA game should hit the stores in 2010 .  "
Yeah 2010 seems more realistic to me since it is July and we have not seen even a trailer for a new GTA game.
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@Wolverine said:
" @daniel_beck_90 said:
" @Wolverine said:
" @Vinny: Yeah would love to see a futuristic  Grand Theft Auto game. It would be so fun hijacking a hover car! I just can't imagine a new GTA game coming out so soon. "
Rockstar used to ship a new GTA game every year back in the old days  . Given the fact that current generation games take at least twice to make we can assume that a new GTA game should hit the stores in 2010 .  "
Yeah 2010 seems more realistic to me since it is July and we have not seen even a trailer for a new GTA game.
"
  Yeah , lack of any trailer so far is bothering me . Typically a current generation GTA sequel considering that the engine is already made should not take more than 2 years to develop .
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it should be set somewhere in africa and make it have to do with diamonds and drugs.

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matee i fink youse should do grand theft auto : New York
or
grand theft auto : Ghettos
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I'd love to see GTA: Mexico City

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They should do a remake of grand theft auto london in todays day and age they could be sick tunes on it from rock to rap but keepin it british it would be different from the last ones but if not they should remake san andreas with graffics a lot better

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 GTA EARTH planes from country  2 country usa italy uk,japan, pakisatn,brazil , australia, china russia, canada , spain and south africa you get the drift  differrnt missions different people the works. An internatonal airport service(not real tme) character a intl fugitive worlds most wanted from brazil

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Ye I could totally see a new GTA in Paris but there wouldn't be much skycrapper anymore. I also would like them to include new stuff in it like skydiving like they did in GTA San Andreas. New weapons such as silencer, chainsaw, gatling gun, mines.... When you think about it, San Andreas had all that pretty much but without the great graphics and body motions.

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What about Grand Theft Auto where the hero is an underdog like a nerd.  And he has to, not only steal cars, but try to borrow grandma's stationwagon to pick up stuff for her like prune juice and her Benson & Hedges cigarettes.

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I agree with the international approach. It would add a whole new concept to the game, with international drug trade, weapons and money laundering. Imagine 3 or 4 Islands Cuba, Columbia, United States and maybe a nuetral Island where it is just that, a place where the main boss grows drugs  and imports them and does all his buisness deals. International ports on the islands which are policed to prevent any illegal smuggling of narcotics and maybe even people? Big container Ships that go port to port, same with an airline for island hopping. Islands should also be more spred out for a more open feel and to add to the idea of these actually being different countries.

Storyline, I think they keep to what they do except they should give us they choice of wether or not we hit bosses or we keep them in the game, the reason for this is because if or when we finish these games you always are stuck with the same things to do at the end phone missions, vigilantes it all gets boring. I mean this guy has just taken over the city, yet he is still taking orders from a dude down the phone!? We are now the boss, we would have access to hitmen, we could still do drug deals with these bosses and have our fortune and power continue to grow even after the credits have rolled. That is just my one of my problems with GTA games, that and how the Police let ya run red lights and run around waving a gun. So they should make him a smarter more sophisticated gangster 

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GTA: North Liberty, IN
I used to live there. Shitty little town. Doesn't even have a Wal-Mart or McDonalds. Like 1000 people at max, so you could probably kill the entire population in a day. Theres this old guy that runs an antic shop that has a pony tail and a lemmy mustache. I would like to play as him.

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VEGAS VEGAS VEGAS, what a setting!!! start small work your way up, compete with other casion's. drug dealers, pimp's, paying people off, would be amazing.
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GTA: Belfast; set during the troubles........

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Would be awesome!

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@c1337us said:
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THIS!
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whats with all those random 1 post answers? 0_o

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I'm thinking sicily or something would be cool for a gta game

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Holy crap, stop bumping old threads.