Former Rockstar Employee Explains Why GTA: Tokyo Never Came Out
The Time Extension portal, in a retrospective dedicated to unreleased games in the GTA series from Rockstar Games, shed light on the fate of the mysterious Grand Theft Auto: Tokyo, which intrigued fans in the early 2000s.
The idea of developing GTA in Tokyo came about after Rockstar co-founder Sam Houser visited Japan frequently during the GTA 3 promotional campaign. Tokyo seemed like an interesting and exciting city for a new game in the series, which could give it a fresh breath of life.
However, the project faced a number of obstacles. The main problems were logistics and cultural peculiarities. The development team would have to spend a long time in Tokyo to map the city in detail. In addition, there were difficulties in adapting the series' characteristic satire to Japanese re...