US EditionA GTA Set In Tokyo Almost Happened But Idea Was Later Scrapped, Former Dev Admits
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GTA Tokyo Was Real and "Almost Actually Happened," But It Wasn’t a Rockstar Games Project
Having trouble viewing the text? You can always read the original article here: GTA Tokyo Was Real and “Almost Actually Happened,” But It Wasn’t a Rockstar Games Project Grand Theft Auto (GTA) is a video game series deeply rooted in American culture, both in its themes and settings. The series has stepped outside the U.S. once before, with a game set in London, but it has mostly stayed in America. However, it has recently been revealed that a ga…
Grand Theft Auto could have been a globetrotting series like Assassin's Creed, according to former Rockstar technical director: 'We had ideas about GTA games in Rio de Janeiro, Moscow and Istanbul' while 'Tokyo almost actually happened'
"Another studio in Japan were going to do it, take our code and do GTA: Tokyo."
Several ATMs outside the United States have been considered by Rockstar, including an opus in Tokyo, Japan's capital.
It was expected that the Grand Theft Auto franchise would take place in the Japanese capital at the time of an episode, says a former Rockstar, before the project was abandoned. Hard to imagine an episode of GTA outside the United States, as the DNA of the series is associated with the country. And yet, according to Obbe,
A GTA Set In Tokyo Almost Happened But Idea Was Later Scrapped, Former Dev Admits
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