Ever since the release of Grand Theft Auto 3 people have been asking when the multi-million selling Rockstar North title will head to London.
However, there would be a lot of problems with London being the backdrop for one of the most expansive and controversial games of all time. And, yes, we know the original Grand Theft Auto had a London 1969 mission pack – but we’re talking new, not top-down GTA and modern-day London.
Here are hecklerspray?s top 10 reasons why GTA London would never work:
10 – Rockstar North
Rockstar North is a Scottish company. This is the same country that sells ‘Anyone But England’ T-shirts. Are they really going to set their top selling title in an English city? No.
9 ? Boris Johnson
The new-style GTA games all feature a political figure of some sort. Imagine having to listen to this floppy haired buffoon as he tells you to, ?ruddy well sort out that ruffian!?
8 ? The Daily Mail
Could you imagine what the Mail would have to say about a GTA London game? My guess is ‘New Liberal Game Results In Immigrant Teen Pregnancies’.
7 ? Transportation
Public transportation has always been a way of travelling across the game map in a short space of time. GTA London would have to feature engineering works and make you top up your oyster card every time you wanted to travel. Plus at some point you'd be expected to drive one of the godforsaken bendy buses.
6 ? The Congestion Charge
Every mission costs you ?20 and if you forget to pay it your wanted level goes up at the end of the day, without any warning.
5 ? Cyclists
They?ll be even more annoying than they are in real life, if that is even possible. Every turn you make will result in the death of a cyclist, causing your wanted level to go up.
4 ? Traffic Calming Measures
Speed cameras, speed bumps and traffic jams – three things London is renowned for. Would it even be worth stealing a car in Grand Theft Auto if you couldn't actually go 10 yards without hitting a traffic jam, snapping the suspension or being gatso?d?
3 ? Weapons
In order to accurately reflect London life GTA London would have to feature a distinctive range of knives: lock knives, butterfly knives, samurai swords etc. Guns would obviously only be available in Hackney.
2 ? The Police
They don't have guns. What are they going to do when they come to arrest you? How do you know whether or not they're an actual police officer or one of those PCSO things that can't actually do anything?
1 ? Londoners
Crime wouldn't even register on a Londoner?s radar unless they were the victims, or they read the Daily Mail and are now afraid to go outside. Your character will be shoved, abused and hunted by marauding teenagers wielding baseball bats when the sun goes down while everyone just walks past with their heads buried in a copy of the Evening Standard. The game would play more like a survival horror than a sandbox game.
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dave says
any real suggestios?
Ali Hamilton says
Wow, what a terrible list
about #10 Especially
Are you insane? don’t generalise an entire county and its companies you morons, You are implying that Rockstar North have something against England, believe me, they would not agree.
I am half Scottish myself, with my Grandparents being Scotts who came down from Scottland to live in England, they where very proud Scottish people but loved England.
Pathetic list, pathetic excuse for a website, won’t be coming back here again.
Sean says
The original GTA had expansions, one that took place in London, called GTA: London 1969. Well there goes your “Rockstar hates England” theory you ass.
Duncan says
This article was hilarious, I loved reason #1.
Sparked visuals of a Kubrick’s Clockwork Orangesque gta world…
David Schwartz says
That’s in the story, you ass. Try reading for a change
londonsuxs says
dude shut the hell up…it would be lame to to gta london again..so eat a penis
kguy says
big lawlz. Good article.
Tobi says
The only good reason is #2, the rest are all completely idiotic. Is this article attmepting to be funny or something?
Graeme D says
This was a rubbish list. point no. 10 doesnt make sense because as you stated gta london was made before,
so you are contradicting yourself
Also i am scottish and i would love the idea of GTA LONDON
Mark says
LMAO that was funny. Even funnier is Ali having his period in here lol.
ant2206 says
#11: The Getaway.
John Lock says
GTA: World
Fly to what ever country you want. Live the dream in America, fight local gangs in China, go to Russia and get laid.
Darius says
Doesn’t seem like good reasons, there’s a lot to offer and I agree with above comment, I am Scottish and I do not dislike England. As far as I’m concerned we are the same country I’m proud to be British, then of course I’m proud to be Scottish but I see myself more as British. I would actually like to also see a GTA set in or based off of Glasgow.
kitsunefox9 says
Oh god this made me laugh so hard. I don’t know why but the “ruddy well sort out that ruffian!” made me laugh so hard I quieted the lobby of the hotel I work at.
Ad says
You may wish to see a doctor about the sense of humour you’ve misplaced.
JMTaylor says
The idea of GTA set in Glasgow? Would never work, probably why it hasn’t been done already. Reasons – much the same as why it wouldn’t work in London.
Kris Silver says
A challenge for you all.
Add some of your own reasons, I want to hear why you don’t think GTA: London would work.
GO!
nutta says
Well it is a fictional game so it wouldn’t be the real London, would it?
GTA London would be an awesome game! I’m not sure if it’s because I’m from Wimbledon and I don’t like tennis but I want to see a mission when you sabbotage the tennis!
Nonplussed says
RE: 10
You forgot that, to be authentic, all the drunken London winos
(of which there are many), would have to have Scottish accents.
Kris Silver says
Assassinating a player on centre court during a game?
Dave says
Any real reasons why it would not then ? Number 10, well, I will leave you to think why it is a stupid suggestion.
Robinson says
@ John Lock
Not before you will have to wait 48 hours for the map to fully load :D
Gtalondonfuku says
Gta london would b the worst gta evr
Mike says
who says it has to be present day? They’ve basically just been remaking the 2d games as 3d versions, splitting up GTA 1 into three seperate games for each city. So why wouldn’t GTA london just be the mission packs turned into a full game? Setting it in the 1960’s would resolve all the above problems. Apart from maybe the Daily Mail one.
john says
this england v scotland is bullshit its just a group of fuckers that have created a stereotype. obviously they wouldnt implant traffic jams into the game, speed bumps wouldnt break yoursuspension just like jumping off a skyscraper doesnt on gta 4, cyclists wouldnt exist just like they dont in gta 4 and if they did you would be able to ride bikes again!! the only bad thing i can see is the fact there isnt any proper open roads that you can go full speed down, however there hasnt been any of them since san andreas
Alex Narten says
I think that these reasons were quite funny.. like the knife one in particular. It’s a myth that police do not carry guns in London. Wake up, and open your eyes mate. Also I think that the music would be amazing with over 100 pirate radio stations along side the main legal ones. 250 gangs.. erm.. lots to do. The teens would just be a side activity for extra fun. Never thought of a guy richie plot??? maybe??? A little british wit and humour could make the game even better.
Blimey! I could think of a list of 100 things that having the next GTA set in London would bring to the gameplay. I’ll start with a few to be short:
1. Radio Stations and varied music.
2. 250 gangs
3. Modified ford escort cosworths, bentleys and RR
4. Clubs with short skirt up for a shag birds, great music and MDMA influenced crowd
5. Guy Richie movie type scenarios.
6. Football matches with hooligan outbreaks
7. Creative weaponry
8. Corrupt police
9. Great scenery
10. What if the Queen was the biggest gangster of the lot????
I’ll leave you with those to think about, and maybe post up some more spontaneous ideas that would make GTA:London the best destination for the upcoming game.
william says
What a laugh!
this blog thing is about puting your ideas about why it is a bad idea but most people love it!
i like the idea 2. i was born in london, 1/2 family from scotland and now live in new zealand.
maybe the character could be forced out of london into scotland.
they could also bring in the aston martin so it would look right at home.
there are 169 big gangs identified by police:
http://www.google.co.nz/#hl=en&safe=off&biw=1117&bih=688&q=name+of+big+london+gangs&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq=&gs_rfai=&fp=7311ba58eebe779c
william says
oh and whoever started this needs to realise that ITS A GAME, its not real. you dont think san fiero is a real plase, and i dont think they have that little amount of cars anywhere. not even in new zealand. especialy america.
danny says
really boris johnson,congestion charge , daily mail and oyster cards , why would the mayor be on it ,i’ve never seen the president on liberty or vice or san andreas, cyclists are on san andreas and these arn’t reason these seem to be stupid veiws and it seems yu don’t like england but we can all say only americans like the usa
taylor says
i agree with alex narten the one bout the queen bein a gangsta is awesome. she could give u ur last mission
PoshAmerican says
GTA London would be spiffing! Haw haw!
Frosty0908 says
I guess this is more humor than fact and almost makes me want to start ripping America apart but for the sake of being cival I wont.
I would love to see a GTA London or an English based GTA regardless of all the above facts I doubt we will see it but as others have mentiond it has been to London before and if the new version returns to S.A L.C I will be annoyed..
And to the joke about how we speak I can assure you that is a very small group who speak like that if your unsure of how much times have changed try watching some modern day London movies or better still come down and let me show you around. Would love to see your mind change when you see how things are out here.
Alfie says
Your list is just racist and no thought at all,you just don’t want GTA to leave America
Alfie says
Oh yea also they would just change the name and make gangs,it doesnt have to be completeley true
Barry says
Rockstar won’t have to create a carbon copy of the real London, just base the city on it, like Liberty City is based on New York. Only this city won’t have traffic calming measures, oyster cards and Boris Johnson, and all the police will be armed. And the Queen will be some kind of evil overlord.
Bit silly to think cyclists and traffic calming measures are a reason GTA London wouldn’t work, just don’t include them. It’s a game, anything is possible.. Although I do acknowledge the tongue in cheek nature of this article.
Billy says
10 Rockstar north already did a london based game, and scottish hating english is the same bullshit as american hating canadien.
9 Why the hell would London mayor feature in a game that is set in a fictional London based city?
8 why would Rockstar care what Daily mail says?
7 In Gta IV you can ride subway for free, and if its gonna cost they’ll do it someway other than oyster cards.
6 See above
5 There are cyclists in real life NYC but there weren’t any in Gta IV why would there be cyclists in Gta:London?
4 It’s a game it doesn’t have to have speedbumps.
3 Guns are pretty much illegal in NY it’s the same in England.
2 British police does have guns, just not the regular patrols but the game doesn’t have to be so realistic.
Now we come to your worst reason
It’s so bad argument I’m going to just say SEEK HELP YOU STUPID RACIST
iratelimey says
about 5% of our country speak like what you fat americans think we do nobody says spiffing thats just an american made word to depict us english in your shitty sitcoms every time i speak to a yank they say “dude you dont sound like your from england” how would you know the only english guy you have seen is Hugh Grant and he is a TWAT. so before you slag England just remember we gave you your language your land and your freedom 35000 years our great nation has been here yours 350 your country may be powerful now only because of size, we ruled the world once with our brains and you have cities bigger than our entire nation and we are still Great Britain you all you yanks have done is supersize what we have done you fast food munching mofos
Someone says
I’m not American and I was still offended by that. Only about 5% of the population think you speak like that just like only 5% of the population in England speak like that (that is, if America is anything at all like Australia). And don’t act like England is the best country in the world, because, well, it’s not. And noone calls it great Britain. It’s just England. I know that some people think Australians are straw sucking, crocodile wrestling, kangaroo riding hillbillies. But I also have half a brain so I know that just because some people think that, it doesnt mean the whole world thinks that. And you rul-ED the world ONCE with your brains. But, sadly, then people like you came along and populated the country, some of you found your way into high places and into the media, an BOOM, your warped logic spread like a disease, infecting anyone who had the displeasure to have heard you speak. These people then infected the people they knew, and those people infected everyone they knew, until this stupidity became a worldwide pandemic. I hope you are pleased with yourself.
Noodle says
You’re obviously a tool. It doesn’t have to be that realistic to have speedbumps and cameras you moron. Maybe Birmingham or something like that? It would be something different at least
steve says
those are the worst reasons ever the only one i agree with is the police, GTA isn’t accurate anyway you don’t even top up petrol in the game and your banging on about congestion charge
also the 1st point is bullshit you really thin the scots wouldn’t set in london because they hate the english which they dont me being scottish
huh says
this list is completely racist. no one in london says things like ruddy and they donnt speak posh. the cops do carry guns andin GTA IV its basically newyork but they call it liberty city. it isnt exactly like new york, so why would they make a london game exactly like london. ive been to london before. u obviously dont know alot about london and england. ur just a racist idiot.
oscar says
what the hell how do you know about congestion charge.. i mean as if that would happen in gta did it happen in the last one nope so why in this one.also sir you are a racist with all this added bullsh-t about things you dont know and before you say anything i can say what ever i want about the usa as my great grandad was a usa pilot
oscar says
just shut up you idiot as you are straw sucking crocodile wreastling kangaroo riding hillbille as the other guy was right as great britan gath you freedom and you know what its people like him that keep england strong
Me says
im gessing your american and hate us english but it dosent have to be exactly like the modern london and liberty city has traffic jams around every corner just think one of the missions could be like your in the london riots of 2011 and obviusly gta would see ways around your stupid list and about your
I live in London says
Wow. What crap reasons. Who says it would be called London anyway… They didn’t call the city in GTA IV, New York Did they? Liberty City… So they would probably call it something else. And do you think the bright, ingenious people of Rockstar Games (originally founded in Leeds, UK!) are really going to think about oyster cards, and speedbumbs? wow. I’m embarrassed for you writing this article.
America-FUCKYEA says
“We gave you your land and your freedom”
Actually we kicked your asses and took it. Then we invented bombs that could wipe your shit little island off the planet.
GTA 5 =] says
When you say YOU invented bombs (implying nuclear weapons) you should realise this:
Ernest Rutherford, in 1919, was the first to split an atom, though it was nitrogen, and thus there was no power generation or explosion. In 1932 Sir John Cockcroft and Ernest Walton were the first to cause a nuclear reaction by the fission of an atom. Enrico Fermi, however was the first to fission uranium, in 1932, though at the time he did not fully appreciate the consequences of this discovery. Otto Robery Frisch and Lise Meitner were the first to realize the potential energy produced by the fission of uranium, however, and in a latter experiment, Frisch proved the theory.
Now which of those Physicists/Mathematicians were American? They are mainly British, some being Europeans. Now before you pull out the intelligence card, I better tell you that not one of your University’s comes close to Cambridge.
Dan says
Umm… American public transport is paid for in real life. American newspapers have written Daily Mail-esque views. American’s have traffic calming measures and cyclists, too. I don’t think any city-dweller reacts to crime any different from London.
There are elements of real life left out of the GTA series because it ISN’T REAL LIFE! (Congestion Charging and “bendy busses” could be left out, too).
Some police in England have guns, which means you could make the game realistic (IE: Wanted Level for cartheft would not result in Armed Response, rather Stingers etc).
BoJo is great and would make a fantastic comedy character in a GTA game.
I think the real issue for a GTA: London game would be this… GTA is based in fictional places based on actual places so they don’t get their asses sued. Therefore, a GTA game in london would need a Londonesque name but not London itself. Also, would need parodical names such as “Big Dong” for Big Ben, “The Pickle” for the Gherkin, etc etc.
I would love to see a GTA London game released, as I think London has so many things that could be parodied to make a really entertaining game, with enough gang crime etc to make it really immersive with lots of oppertunities for missions. Also, the social demographic is widespread enough to have a real rags-to-riches feel to the game.
PECKHAM2011 says
stupid guyy, this list is crap if any of you actually ever lived in london you would realise there’s north,east,west an south with massive area’s inside them, just because all along the thames there’s traffic and in main london but wow the only valid point you made throughout the entire thing is british police dont have guns :L our metropolitan police dont have gun’s but every arm’s responce unit has machine gun’s…. it would be hard to adapt gta to london but i think it would be the best one yet.
and rockstar north dont sell the t shirts to england because it would be a crap market where they would lose money because nobody would walk around wearing one?
Connor Turner says
You can all go fuck yourself since there has already been a GTA Londan so lolololol
Alex Narten says
Some reasons why GTA London would be HEAVYWEIGHT:
I don’t promote this kind of behaviour but in a game like GTA woooo!
1 The Crime:
a) The dealer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vSFtskF0XV4
b) The hitman: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWDVk-lO0Vg
c) The heavy: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddvm-qFZO8M
d) The Prisoner: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6VdCZrWRRQg
e) The Smuggler: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dktVL1X8WEs
f) The Bent Cop: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5MGVZebo_w
g) London Gangs ( few of the 250 ): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0dIiC765fTk
h) Have a look at other videos on this channel to know more on that side:
http://www.youtube.com/user/essexboys1994?feature=watch#p/u
i) Don’t forget to check out Ross Kemp on London Gangs.
The Music:
1994 Jungle Scene: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ff5HIAqv_2g
Dubstep Scene: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UiLFC_cD300
Bumpy UK Garage: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bA541lVPYpg
Classic UK Garage: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVVXjuW26XU
Soca Scene: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pC8GpWMQgiA
Notting Hill Carnival: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTPrK1YWVgA
Drum and Bass: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_LfmTeSN4w
Grime: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MmZQnhl5wZY
British Hip Hop: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZhkoegM9HQE
British Reggae: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fj7dofhbSns
Not to mention the numerous styles of music that are less promoted but still played: Ska, punk, rock, indie, alternative, trance, pop, etc..
Gotta love this one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7R7q1lSZfs&ob=av3e
Some more british tunes:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=my6pB7iq4jY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XctIKFATSnA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31U6wKbaosQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-sHyGm_QwE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zMR5K2QWfJk&ob=av2n
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mL2Bgj-za5k
and that’s 1/1000’000th of what there is!!!
Scenarios:
Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BlJS1mOUiPo&feature=fvst
Essex Boys: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hIMtMh-Yk8
Cass: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BH_kyxHofnU
Kidulthood: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mdoKD4gTQ2c
Adulthood: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhrJBUMxNMQ
Snatch: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8jbt0wBkMI
Rock’n’Roller: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CNfWakn1OwE
Trainspotting: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GmQqhuKmECc
Human Traffic: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fc0kPAPNahU
Other Aspects:
Tourism: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJqgXOjqkuc
London Public Transport: Double deck buses, underground trains, etc…
Betting Shops, Soho (chinatown).. I dunno.. there’s so much it’s hard to list it all and i’ve got other shit to do.
Peace.
Ian says
HAHAHAHA
#5 had me in hysterics!!!!
GTA UK could be fun though, you could have a few different cities… motorways.. countryside… Scotland… Wales… It would have to be a rather large sandbox though I suppose…
Speed cameras could come into effect however there could be alternatives such as fake plates etc.. so yeh you’d get flashed but it wouldn’t matter…
In fact… how often in ANY GTA game do you drive your own car!??! I drive a car outside “my house” for about 3 mins before I total it… therefore requiring me to “borrow” one from a fellow citizen… so really it wouldn’t cause any problems being flashed. Also it wouldn’t cause your wanted level to increase straight away anyway…
Nicholas says
Very good list!
I would pay big money for ANY game which incorporates mission a la Get Carter, Hard Men, L,S&2SB, Snatch, Gangster No.1, and similar jewels of British Gangster Cinema.
ps: I can’t believe these guys who take the article serious tho’!
(So many dumb people, it makes me sad sometimes.)
vince says
This is the most pathetic thing I’ve read. First thing your saying about teenagers and that what you don’t think all the other places have teenagers? And weapons oh so just because londons known for knifes and hackney mainly has guns you think that the only place you can get it from, its a game for god sake. Muppet
Begs says
Not from London myself, but I love the city and I would love to see a GTA take place in London.
But ‘Your character will be shoved, abused and hunted by marauding teenagers wielding baseball bats’ is the only big crime you can think of in London ?
Hmmm let’s see :
We have white British East End Firms, Turkish/Turkish Cypriot and Kurdish heroin gangs, Albanian clans, Jamaican Yardies, Chinese Triads, Vietnamese clans, Colombian Cartels, Lithuanian clans, Nigerian/Ghanaian/Ugandan/Guyanese Peckhams, Somali drug gangs, Pakistani Mirpuri Kashmiri and Pathan drug gangs, Sikh drug gangs and Tamil drug gangs.
GTA: London would give us a load of cool gangs !
Fateh s. Aurora says
You sir are an idiot
Bellic says
Your reasons are stupid so they don’t count. And you are a small minded bigot.
-Niko
eddy says
yeah, i hate to admit it but in truth, this list it actually quite accurate and especially the last one. the only things i disagree with is the police and a few parts of the last one
1) the police, in some areas, do have guns and police community support officers (PCSO) aren’t that useful so they wouldn’t be worth putting in the game.
2) the teenage gangs probably wouldn’t exist ‘cos GTA don’t like including anyone younger than, say, 20 or so. also people do go out at night and not everyone lives in fear unless they are easily discriminable, just it’s not the best idea to park with the ignition, the car unlocked, and don’t keep anything valuable in the car. but, other than that, the last fact is rather true
g j jenkins says
clearly your not a gta fan are you kid? ill give you 10 answers to all your remarks about why it wont ”work”
#10 northstar north is an english ran company witch now bases its self in scotland, so there english for a start, even if they wasnt most scottish people dont hate the english i go there every year snowboarding and they couldnt make me feel more welcome
#9 do a little research on the old borris johnson, he would fit into gta more than you think with his past record and brilliant remarks over the years.
#8 since when did rockstar care what the media think? have you seen some of there releases? what about the amount of times inside gta where they completely take the piss out of the papers? (real gta fans will understand what i been)
#7 grand theft auto maps are rockstars own take on real places not just vitual rebuilds but are still very similar witch means they will change want they need to in order to make it all flow nicely, have you played gta 4? and went to times square? you can race up and down that in the suatlan rs all day without crashing at top speed, in real life in manhatten it takes hours just to drive past the apple shop, plus the 1000s of people walking about all the time is mental compared to the scaled back version of gta 4s manhatten like city. they would take into account how london works (the cars the people the atmosphere) and create that in there own twist in there world.
#6 are we forgetting gta 4s bridge toll charges? they do have that in america you no its not just the uk
#5 gta sa cant you remember? choppers,bmxes and mountain bikes plenty of cyclists on the roads for you to run over, made the game better something to do in the skate parks witch everyone loved, plus in gta 4 wen they took bikes out there was nothing fun to do in the new skateparks it took the fun away :( and comon a 1 star wanted level? must be a mega noob if you cant get rid of that.
#4 again all this would be taken into account to make sure it all works together and gives the gamer that expensive they would based in london but still with that gta world edge of anything is possible do what you want gameplay
#3 theres kids all over the uk with guns its not just in hackney go take a real look about at whats happening in this country under the governments nose, and surely a company as big as rockstar could pull off multiple melee weapons along with guns like they have done in mostly every game in the gta series.
#2 they wouldnt have pcsos in the game and the police would still have guns remember its a game not real life theres no rules they can do want they want if they where going to base another game in london it doesnt mean they have to recreate london to every little detail.
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ben says
Dude san fiero is a real place, its san francissco, like las venturas is las vega and los santos is los angeles
Brenna Cannon says
Your article still sucked.
You know nothing about video games.
Jesse says
Actualy you didn’t kick anyone’s asses. The war on Independence was ending just like most American wars America tried to fight without help. You were losing, if it was not for the French who saved your asses holding back the main force of the Brits your country might not have existed.
Secondly, you didn’t invent the bomb. Europeans did, America is the Japan of the western world. You never really invent anything. You just take already existing inventions and exploit them. You didn’t even create NASA or its rockets, Nazi Germans did.
Televisions, Telephones, Computers, World Wide Web, these are all European inventions. Hell America didn’t even invent the internet as claimed. The idea of packet switching existed before. Paul Baran & Donald Davis a Polish & a Brit came up with it and the World Wide Web (The little thing were all using right now) was made by a Brit. Once again, America just exploited a big idea.
But you need to show a little respect. Without the Brits your country would be nothing. They established everything you have, your legal system, your laws, your form of government, your traditions, your cuisine, even your Sports despite you bastardizing football.
The best scientist you ever had was Thomas Edison, and he was a fraud who didn’t even invent the light bulb. Between the Scottish & English both have out invented your entire country. They are responsible for over 50% of modern inventions or things we use today ranging from Three laws of motion to the theory of evolution what has America ever gave us? Rock music? yeah and even Brits made that better. American rock pales in comparison to Britains.
UK 420 says
Jesse you proved them wrong, they have got nothing to say now lol
Thank you
Charlotte says
I’ve thought before about how cool a GTA London would be. I know that the use of guns would be unrealistic, but after all it’s a video game. Why can’t it be realistic? NYC has cracked down on gun laws, and they didn’t change Liberty City because of that.
It would have only taken you a 5 second scan of Wikipedia for you to understand that the original producers were both ENGLISH, and you completely contradicted yourself by talking about the older GTA London. The list comes across as quite satirical, but yet you’ve gotten pretty pissed off at some of the comments, so I’d say you’re probably being serious.
Also, to #9, Boris Johnson is fucking hilarious. I could totally see him as a GTA character, many of which have been over-the-top in the past. So I don’t get your point at all.
Also rather than a “hood” you’d be more likely to join a gang. They could even put aspects of Birmingham in the game, it’s an underrated city.
fiona says
There was already a GTA london. It was released in 1999..
Kane says
It would be the shit
Kane says
Im from a ruff part of south london i knw so meny boys i lived around or when school with doing life or a long time in prison or meny that are dead. The london iv grown up to see very differant to what it gets made out to be places like the most notorious Brixton parts of stockwell,tules hill,streatham within the lambeth borough the murder capital of london for many years. Infamous peckham,woolworth & bermondsey within the southwark borough. Monson,woodpecker estate aka ghetto, peeyps estate in new cross & Deptford se14/8 within the lewisham borough. In the greenwich boroughs you had the some verry large estats some have been knocked down like the Ferrier estate and areas like eltham,woolwich,thamesmead & carlton. Croydon borough New Addington has been riggled with crime for meny years thorton heath,south norwood & west croydon along london road are starting to form some seriose gangs after the social cleansing through out lamberth borough & and council estates in battersea wich is in the wandsworth borough meny familys were moved out them innercity areas to move suburban placeses like croydon due to the heavey crime wave london was facing. Im sorry I havent written about north,east & west it was an on the spot thing it wasnt pland and iv got plenty more to talk about why GTA london is probabley most worthey at this time just leave a comment if your intrestead.
Americannot says
You live where you are born until you are taken somewhere else. You did not make this choice. What have you invented lately? Who do you thank for establishing what is now great Britain? The Romans? The Greeks? It wasn’t you. It wasn’t your grandfather. Nobody should be taking credit over the success of their ancestors. You didn’t build that.
Michael says
Just thought it might be worth pointing out that this has already been done twice with the Getaway games.
ROCajun says
There’s traffic in New York too dumb ass!! Isn’t that pretty much the main GTA universe?..where it started. This list is so fucking stupid!
RockHeroUk says
Dude you say cyclists are annoying well gta5 will have them in it and you don’t moan about that do ya. What a twat you are! One day gta London will be created after the 1969 was published by rockstar north so now you can’t say that rockstar north will never creat gta London.
PureBS says
it doesn’t have to be 100% mirror of london. Remember rockstar is only depicting a city. Not all elements can be incorporated onto the game because it will harm the gameplay. Example: KIDS IN GTA.
John McCourt says
Whoever did this list a complete idiot! It would not be a complete mirror of real life london.
The police don’t have guns? My neighbour threatened someone with a sword, a highly armed police squad turned up at his door with dogs! Normal patrol police would have pepper spray and batons and possibly a taser.
GTA Englanbd could work VERY well, it would be a very nice change. Who says it has to be GTA though? Why not have rockstar just base an open world game based in England but not make it gta but have it do the exact same things, they’d have a new franchise!
Imagine going around england armed, fighting farmers who have shotguns, having to take on british gangsters.
The possibilities are endless. Want a good example? Watch a film like Snatch or Rocknrolla. DONE
dale Jenking says
There sooo many ways and the possibilities are enormousJUST ONE LAST THING TO FUCK YOU AMERICANS CRITISING ENGLAND , YOU HAVE TO USE GUNS, YOUR A BUNCH OF PUSSIES.Here we will go up to you and lamp you one straight in the temple and learn to speak proper English!!!!!!
zwicelozkie says
Please don’t compare Australia to America. Australia is a much better nation and are not full of themselves apart from one or two. How about a gta Australia or gta world ae
Charley says
There are loads of guns in England you do know the gangs recruit seven year olds to hide weapons and hold on to evidence Britain is a lot worse than you make out
TheLimey says
London Police don’t use guns, only if their suspect doesn’t have a gun.
The moment you pull a gun out around London, you’re gonna get shot.
Same if you’re on a rampage with a knife.
Tottenham Riot 2011 Anyone? -Sigh-
Lee Rigby?
So that point is invalid, as are the rest.
Tommie18 says
Oh dear, this list was awful! You’re Daily Mail liberal statement? Two words, Fox News. Worst media outlet in the states. And in GTA IV, I believe Weasel News was a pisstake of Fox, so they could do the same with the DM.
Cops without guns? Look at The Getaway. Most police carried guns in that game, and they were great games! So I don’t see why guns couldn’t exist.
Then there’s the endless gangs and the seedy criminal underground. London would be a great, gritty setting for a R* game, and I for once would relish the opportunity!
Me says
A remake of GTA London 1969 would be absolutley brilliant. End of Story. Not set in current day London however, which sucks pretty badly. Old London rocked.