Dan Houser says Rockstar Games only attempted GTA London once in 26 years because the series is “so much about America” that “it wouldn’t really have worked in the same way elsewhere”

Two bikers posing with a revolver and a motorbike in Grand Theft Auto 6 area Ambrosia.

Rockstar Games has only branched out and taken its hit criminal series across the pond once with an oft-forgotten PS1 GTA London mission pack, and that’s because the series is so rooted in Americana, American satire, and, well, guns, according to studio co-founder and former lead writer Dan Houser.

"We made a little thing in London 26 years ago, GTA London, for the top-down one for the PS1," Houser recalled in a chat with Lex Fridman. "That was pretty cute and fun."