
Those old enough will remember an early off-shoot of the original Grand Theft Auto that took the series outside of the USA for the first and only time.
GTA: London 1969 was essentially an expansion pack for the first game, allowing players to take on some missions in the the UK capital.
Many fans have wondered whether the GTA series might move away from America once again, but it seems the franchise is, and always has been, firmly rooted in that country, and it seems unlikely we'll see anything like GTA London again.
Recent comments from Dan Houser, co-founder of Rockstar Games and former lead writer of the series, offer some explanation as to why GTA won't leave the USA.
In an interview with Lex Fridman, Houser describes GTA London as a "cute and fun" experience back on PS1.
Asked if something like that could happen again, he said the team "always decided there was so much Americana inherent in the IP, it would be really hard to make it work in London or anywhere else."
Houser elaborated, stating GTA needs "guns" and "larger-than-life characters", things you can easily include in satirised versions of Los Angeles or Miami.
"The game was so much about America, possibly from an outsider’s perspective," he said. "That was so much about what [the series] was that it wouldn’t really have worked in the same way elsewhere."