Take-Two Confirm Next GTA Title News

Take-Two today confirmed a rough release plan for the next instalment in the ‘Grand Theft Auto’ series. <br><br>Speaking at the 20th Annual Technology Conference in New York City, Cindi BuckWalter, Executive Vice-President of Take-Two Interactive, confirmed that the next title is scheduled for release in Q4 2004.<br><br>Unsurprisingly the company refused to offer any further details, only claiming that the company wanted to give the market a ‘breather’ and release it next year.<br><br>We’ve widely suspected that the next title will arrive on the Playstation2 exclusively (for a period), and will be entitled ‘GTA: San Andreas’. This originally stems back from a <a href=http://www.totalvideogames.com/?section=Read%20News&id=2974&gameid=2342&format=000006>report</a> we featured back in January, claiming that Take-Two had registered the domain names <a href=http://www.gtasanandreas.com>www.gtasanandreas.com</a> and <a href=http://www.grandtheftautosanandreas.com>www.grandtheftautosanandreas.com</a>. GTA fans will also recognise San Andreas as one of the three locations in the original GTA, alongside Liberty City and Vice City; it may be putting 2+2 together and coming up with 5, however we’re convinced that this will happen.<br><br>A source also confirmed this to us, claiming that the next big step in the GTA series would be ‘GTA4’ and released on next-generation systems. The lengthy release date also backs up the fact that the games developers, RockStar North, have spent this year developing the forthcoming Playstation2 title ‘Manhunt’; presumably with that out of the way, they’re free to begin work on the next GTA title.<br><br>What we don’t know at present is specific details on the title; we’ve largely suggested that GTA: San Andreas will follow suit with ‘Vice City’ and be staged in a different time-zone, presumably the 70’s would be the next logical step for the series.<br><br>We’ll have more on ‘GTA: San Andreas’ soon.<br>