Rockstar Games has only once expanded its crime series and brought it across the pond with the oft-forgotten GTA London mission pack for PS1, and that's because the series is so rooted in America, American satire and, well, guns, according to studio co-founder and former lead writer Dan Houser.
“We made a little thing in London 26 years ago, GTA London, for PS1 with a top-down view,” Houser recalled to Lex Friedman. “It was pretty sweet and fun.”
But when asked why the series never returned to London or another city outside the US, Houser said the studio “always decided that there was so much Americana inherent in the IP that it would be very difficult to make it work in London or anywhere else.” Naturally, “you needed guns, you needed these larger-than-life characters”—and you could find that pretty easily in the show's exaggerated versions of New York or Miami.
“The game was about America, perhaps from an outsider's point of view,” he added. “It was so much about that [the series] was that it wouldn't have worked the same way anywhere else.”
At this point, GTA has been biting into American politics, corruption, consumerism, the nation's media, and more with its satirical fangs quite often for generations. And if GTA 6The social media attacks suggest the series has no plans to slow down.
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