GTA 6 Returning To Liberty City Would Be A Terrible Choice

GTA 6 Updates: While Liberty City is ok, GTA 6 should let players revisit Rockstar’s more obscure fictional American cities, a number of which are decades old.

Though it hasn’t been announced, it’s inevitable that a Grand Theft Auto 6 is in the works – Rockstar has reaped billions of dollars from the franchise. Perhaps the most important question for fans then, aside from eager to know GTA 6’s release date, is where it’ll be set.

There are several possible options, but one thing the fans can probably agree on is that GTA 6 should avoid returning to the developer’s NY City clone, Liberty City.

On its own, there’s nothing fundamentally wrong with Liberty City. The situation has been in Grand Theft Auto since the start, offering the gameplay advantage of a dense urban environment with many roads, activities, and even transportation systems.

From a narrative perspective, NY City remains synonymous with a criminal offense – however outdated that view could be – and it is a perfect venue for satirizing American culture, home to Madison Avenue, Occupy Wall Street, and Fox News.

The real issue is that Liberty City has been done to death in the Grand Theft Auto series, and it wouldn’t be an honest location for GTA 6. Not only has Liberty City been in the series since 1997, but there have also been two major 3D-era games set there, GTA 3 and GTA 4.

Both radically reshaped the character of Grand Theft Auto, but it’s going to be difficult to return there for the sixth time and make the sport feel fresh, albeit it switches focus far away from Russian and Italian gangs. Revisiting Chinatown as a setting for GTA 6 might be interesting, but hard to face with the real-world disappearance of the triads.

Which City Would Be Better For GTA 6?

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Meanwhile, Rockstar’s other fictional cities in Grand Theft Auto are more visually and thematically interesting. One fan-favorite setting idea for GTA 6 is Vice City, which supported by Miami in the 1980s.

It is a neon-lit, cocaine-fueled paradise with cool music and ocean scenery – 20 years later, a makeover would little question impress with updated graphics, storytelling, and gameplay. Another neon alternative would be Las Venturas, based in Las Vegas.

That setting has only been seen in GTA: San Andreas, despite the deep mob influence Vegas once had. The 1950s or ’60s Las Venturas might be something to behold.

Any city Rockstar picks would require a huge undertaking to surpass the quality of GTA 5. Indeed, an April 2020 report claimed that Grand Theft Auto 6 was still “years away,” despite its predecessor launching in 2013 – in fact, Rockstar has been busy with Red Dead Redemption 2 and GTA Online in the interim.

Regardless of the case, the developer has probably locked during a location already and is simply expecting the proper time to showcase its decision.

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