1. Well, Liberty City was a form of NYC, San Andreas was California, and Vice City was Florida. I'd love a new version, a next-gen version of NYC if it looked like the video of 'The Getaway' shown at E3 for PS3 awhile back. Rememeber that stuff?

They shouldn't waste that graphical ability on PS3 OR Getaway :)

Posted at 4:30PM on Mar 13th 2007 by Toph

2. If they do it PGR3 style and make it so you can actually recognize everything, that would be pretty badass. If it's going to just be Liberty City with a Statue of Liberty thrown in and Madison Square Gardens, then it probably isn't necessary.

Posted at 4:32PM on Mar 13th 2007 by Tim

3. The most disappointing part of games that take place in New York City is when the city itself looks generic in the game and landmarks are squished into a small area so you can tell it's NY. Best example - Spider-Man games ... totally disappointing. I don't care how far he can leap, Spider-Man can't make it to the Statue of Liberty from any point on either the New York or Jersey waterfronts.

If they feel they can really make the city personalized enough to pass as "real" New York, then that's awesome. Otherwise, I'll settle for a Liberty City-style NY knockoff.

Posted at 4:55PM on Mar 13th 2007 by banjoker

4. Well, if it has NYC music, the soundtrack is going to blow big time seeing there are no viable rock stations in NY since 92.3 (Stern's former home) when to an all talk format.

Posted at 5:10PM on Mar 13th 2007 by Andrew

5. @4

Vice City and San Andreas were imprints of GTA3.

Posted at 5:32PM on Mar 13th 2007 by Sunny

6. The cities of the latest GTA games come from the cities of the original games. I read this on a fan site before San Andreas came out.

The latest city is a European city. I forgot which one, but I think it was in Italy.

Posted at 5:33PM on Mar 13th 2007 by Newshot Studio

7. My guess is London - remember GTA London?
We've already had all the major places in America, and it would be just rubbish if they used the same style of city as what was already done in GTA 3, Vice City and San Andreas.

My guess is London, or somewhere that's not in America (maybe an LEDC like in Mexico, Africa or South America?)

Posted at 5:45PM on Mar 13th 2007 by Ciaran Gallagher

8. There's more major areas in America than what they've done thus far. Personally, I wouldn't mind seeing Chicago, but I doubt it'd happen. I think that Mafia game already did it anyway.

Posted at 5:48PM on Mar 13th 2007 by Tony

9. By the way, if you counted GTA London, Liberty City Stories and Vice City stories we'd be at about GTA9...

Posted at 5:48PM on Mar 13th 2007 by Ciaran Gallagher

10. I'd want it to be in Liberty City. I like the whole style GTA has of making cities rather than basing them on the 100% actual real life city.

Posted at 5:49PM on Mar 13th 2007 by Dawg605

11. Forget NYC, I'd like to see GTA IV set in Boise

Posted at 5:57PM on Mar 13th 2007 by Thunder3000

12. Amsterdam. Just think about what the average person knows about Amsterdam: pot and prostitutes. Not a shocking addition to the GTA series, but imagine the storylines...

Posted at 6:30PM on Mar 13th 2007 by Matt

13. they should make it like tokyo :)

Posted at 7:22PM on Mar 13th 2007 by dslite_user

14. i just hope it has some kind of form of nyc witch the main character as Tony

Posted at 7:29PM on Mar 13th 2007 by mike

15. I say why stop at any single city, or country for that matter? The degree that San Andreas grew from Vice City was huge. Who's to say they don't expand to the entire globe, or further! Spore style!

Posted at 7:29PM on Mar 13th 2007 by Jorge Capote

16. To me the only American city that would be a viable spoof after everything thus far would be a washington d.c. spoof. GTA:Capital City or perhaps GTA Beltway City. To me a D.C. clone holds alot of potential promise. Think about how that the secret service could be a "gang" of sorts. Or running and gunning thru a spoof Lincoln memorial, How cool would that be?

Going with a direct NYC setting just doesnt seem very "Rockstar" to me . Since tons of GTA clones have taken place in new york L.A. and london that doesnt seem too edgy or original. And plus all those games have terrible "Uncanny Valley" moments where they seem to try either too hard to be real or not hard enough to "BE" whatever city there are trying to be. If it was just liberty city again im sure we would all be fine with that but for me capitol city would rawk!

Posted at 7:57PM on Mar 13th 2007 by hollopoint

17. Whatever they do, I don't care. I just want to know why it's GTA4? We're on GTA6 by my count.

Posted at 8:25PM on Mar 13th 2007 by Gemini Ace

18. I doubt they'll ever do a real city. They're in enough hot water as it is, and I sort of doubt they'd want to attract the ire of a city's government if they ever did a direct translation.

If it's a fake city they can have fake billboards, fake cop logo, fake license plates. But if it were a real city, they'd have to get permission for all of that.

Do you really think the NYPD would appreciate a game as high profile as GTA4 having cops with real NYPD logos on them getting mowed down by 14 year old boys?

I really doubt it.

Posted at 8:58PM on Mar 13th 2007 by agdTinMan

19. how the city of gangsters, ATTTLLLANNNTA. Althought the only real reason i say that is cause i live there and its kinda funny if i were to see it, althought it wouldnt seem very interesting unless they added somehting in a knock off version of the city

Posted at 9:43PM on Mar 13th 2007 by zourskittles

20. Tony, i'll personally kill a man in order to see a gta game based in a chicago knock-off. it would make my day. but they'd probably make fun of it so much that i'd just hate the franchise after that.

yeah i call total bs on this one. it would kill the whole gta spirit. next they'd have to oust cluckin' bell and bring in taco bell. that just wouldn't be fun.

agdTinMan is right. new york city officials would be pissed with all the controversy, even if it didn't do the city a disservice.

the only viable options in the country, imo, would be chicago (though most probably would think too similar to ny. wrong!), atlanta (though highly unlikely), or dc. i really can't think of any other city with enough characteristics to make the cut. if i had to place bets, i would go with tokyo. london actually seems more plausible, even sydney possibly, but i'm going with the former.

Posted at 10:13PM on Mar 13th 2007 by Jeramy