GTA 6 (Grand Theft Auto VI) is
Rockstar Games' rumored sequel
to GTA 5 (Grand Theft Auto V).
GTA 6 will likely be released for
Xbox One, PlayStation 4, and (If
like Grand Theft Auto V) PC at a
later date.
While GTA Online was Rockstar
Games' immediate focus
following the release of Grand
Theft Auto V, but the studio is
already considering possibilities
for GTA 6. "We’ve got about 45
years worth of ideas we want to
do,” according to Rockstar
president Leslie Benzies, “We
don’t know what GTA 6 will be,
but we’ve got some ideas." [1]
GTA 6 Setting
Rockstar has not confirmed
development on GTA 6, but they
have stated that they would like
to create one Grand Theft Auto
game with all previous cities
from the series. In an interview
with Digital Trends, Rockstar
North head Leslie Benzies said he
envisions players being able to
travel back and forth to revisit
places they explored in past
games. [2]
“Of course at some point we
would like to have one big world
containing all our cities and let
the player fly between them and
revisit their favorite areas,”
Benzies said. “In that context re-
imagining Vice City would be very
interesting.”
SAN ANDREAS
Some fans speculate on the belief
that Rockstar could return to San
Fierro and Las Venturas (one or
both) to complete the remaining
territories not found in Grand
Theft Auto V. Due to console
limitations and resource
devotion, only Los Santos and
Blaine have been covered, but
fans have shown an interest in
other San Andreas cities, as
depicted by GTA 6 fan website
GTAist.com.
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VICE CITY
On the subject of Vice City
returning as a future setting,
Benzies said “it is always a
possibility. There are a few
references to the city in our
current-gen GTAs so it is part of
that HD universe, and it is
certainly somewhere we would
love to revisit. However Vice City,
perhaps more than any other
GTA game, was as much about
the era as the setting. Miami in
the 1980’s is so iconic it would
feel strange to revisit the city in a
different time period.” [3]
USA
What about a map based on the
whole United States? Although
the concept may seem far from
fruition, games like The Crew
have proven that it can be done
on this current generation of
consoles. A USA map is not out of
the question. Grand Theft Auto
fan Sengin created this concept
map featuring San Andreas, Vice
City and Liberty City (and some
country-side to boot).
NOT LONDON
In an interview with The
Guardian, Grand Theft Auto V
writer Dan Houser stated that, as
interesting as London is, it may
not be right for a future GTA
game. "I think for us, my gut
feeling is, GTA London was cool
for the time, but games were
more limited then. These days I
think we would love to set a
game in the UK, set in London,
whatever, but I don't know if it
would be a GTA game. I think
there are plenty of great stories
we could tell about the UK, great
environments to showcase, great
gameplay mechanics that could
have a UK bent to them – I just
don't think it would be a GTA
necessarily."
Dan Houser, along with brother
Sam, the two founders of
Rockstar, are originally from
London. The city was used at the
setting for a pair of expansions
back in the GTA series' 2D days:
Grand Theft Auto: London 1969,
which used the original GTA's
engine, was released in 1999 on
PC and PlayStation, and was
followed shortly thereafter by the
free release London 1961 on PC.
GTA 6 Characters
Dan Houser was also asked
about whether Rockstar
considered including a playable
female character in GTA V's
campaign, which features three
male characters. "We didn't really
think about it this time," he
explained. "That's not to say that
we couldn't or we wouldn't. This
character set is just what came
to us: it wasn't, 'we've got X and
Y so we need Z,' we weren't
trying to do it off a checklist - I
don't think that will ever give you
something that's believable or
engaging.
"In the future, could we do a
game with a lead female
character? Of course. We just
haven't found the right game for
it yet, but it's one of the things
that we always think about. It
didn't feel natural for this game
but definitely for the right game
in the future - with the right
themes, it could be fantastic. But
for GTA V, this was the organic
thing that came up, these were
the characters what would
display the themes we wanted to
think about."

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