GTA heads to San Andreas?
Posted by Michael Stanclift on 06 January 2003 - 18:47 · 11 comments & 1714 views
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#2 Posted by Dead Messiah on 06 Jan 2003 - 19:32
- I heard that the new games is gonna be in Las Vegas, and that it's gonna be called "Grand Theft Auto: Sin City".
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#3 Posted by Solarix on 06 Jan 2003 - 19:33
- swweet even tho i didnt finish the vice city yet lol
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#4 Posted by DarkLordSouron on 06 Jan 2003 - 20:54
- really sin city lol
looks like SIM CITY
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#5 Posted by Kaneda on 07 Jan 2003 - 00:48
- i've been a close follower of the gta scene for years. i made many user cars for gta1 and i was the first person to ever release a user car for gta2... knowing them, they'll do san andreas next. a las vegas-style city ("sin city") would be too similar to vice city. the only question i'm unsure of is what era it'll be set in.. they could do it in the 70s but it would be too similar to Driver. they've learned the hard way that a future-based one just doesn't appeal to people (GTA2 was a flop and nobody liked the cars).. so my official "educated" guess is that it'll be san andreas and take place right after the episode of liberty city in GTA3.
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#6 Posted by dougkinzinger on 07 Jan 2003 - 04:44
- I just want to know when Vice City is coming to its rightful home, the PC.
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#7 Posted by username on 07 Jan 2003 - 07:40
- is this going to be like tomb raider series? same engine, new levels...
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#8 Posted by Skyfrog on 07 Jan 2003 - 08:56
- Got Milk? I think they need to move on to new things now. This is getting to be like the Sims with it's neverending expansion packs...
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#9 Posted by LiGhTfast on 07 Jan 2003 - 11:13
- yawn
gta is gettin crap, i'd wish they quit while the game has some respect
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#10 Posted by Tom Servo on 07 Jan 2003 - 12:27
- Right, GTA must have become crap, thats also why GTA:VC did sell pretty good. Pffft!
While Grand Theft Auto: Vice City continues to sit pretty atop the charts, braking records left, right and possibly even centre, faint rumblings of the next instalment of the brutal series are beginning to be picked up.
It's been rumoured for some time that the follow-up to Vice City will be based on San Andreas. The evidence for this is clear: there were three areas in the original GTA - Liberty City, San Andreas and Vice City. GTA3 was clearly based on Liberty City, while Vice City speaks for itself, so a San Andreas-based title would make perfect, logical sense.
As ever, Rockstar is keeping its lips tighter than a gnat's arse trapped in a vice, but investigations have uncovered further evidence that points to the verity of this speculation. The domain names www.gtasanandreas.com and www.grandtheftautosanandreas.com were both registered last May, by what appears to be an employee of Rockstar in the US.
While this is not a clear indication that this will be the final title of the game, it seems clear that San Andreas is on the minds of Rockstar staff at least.
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