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’
Outside of a trip to London in 1997, Grand Theft Auto has always stuck to fictional analogues of American cities for its settings. But there is a reality where Rockstar’s hugely successful crime epic is as globetrotting as Assassin’s Creed. According to Rockstar North’s former technical director Obbe Vermeij, the company toyed with numerous international…