GTA: Harbour City Details Leaked (April Fool)

IGN, the gaming website has come up with some great April Fools jokes in the past, my personal favourite is the Legend of Zelda Movie trailer that they created last year, it clearly took a lot of work, whereas this year’s would appear to have taken a simpler twist – the leak of a new Grand Theft Auto game – GTA: Harbour City.

Take a look at the pictures available over at IGN Xbox 360, it looks quite convincing that there would will be a new GTA released by the end of next year.

The next installment of this great gaming series would apparently be called “Grand Theft Auto: Harbour City” and be released on XBox 360, PS3 and PC. The game will be developed by a new Rockstar branch, Rockstar Bondi, who were formally known as ‘Team Bondi’ – a very Aussie theme going on here!

The pictures show the front of the design document and the synopsis of the game, which you can see below:

“Grand Theft Auto: Harbour City expands and improves on (ed: not sure) the benchmark Grand Theft Auto IV from Rockstar North, bringing Rockstar Bondi (formerly Team Bondi) into the spotlight (ed: not sure).

Set during the 1970s(?), the story follows Harbour City resident and low-level thug, Tresle(?) ‘Thumb’ Conroy (ed: not sure), from his accidental invitation(?) into the high rollers’ gambling circuit(?) (ed: not sure) through to dominance of the city’s underworld, financial district and celebrity system(?). The tone pays reference to famous Australian con-films(?) ‘Chopper’ and ‘Dirty Deeds’.

The game’s mission-based structure will remain in place, with a greater emphasis on side-missions, environmental interactivity and destructibility. Harbour City will run on an enhanced version of the Rockstar Advanced Game Engine supported by the continued licensing of the Euphoria animation engine.

Missions will take players across the iconic Coathanger (Sydney Harbour Bridge) and Harbour City Amphitheatre (Sydney Opera House), into the sleazy (Seedy? Sassy?)(ed: not sure) Knight’s Crown (Kings Cross) and Greenleaf (Redfern) districts, into the surrounding beach communities of (Sheldon? Shevon? Slebbon?) (ed: not sure) (Bondi) and through the tangle of city streets and inner-city residential suburbs.

While Harbour City takes cues from Sydney’s urban landscape, a portion of the Australian outback will also feature (ed: whaaaa? Seriously?).”

In one of the pictures you can see a new Rockstar logo which is green and gold (very Australian).

So what do you think to this April Fool? Personally I think it’s a pretty good one and IGN have certainly come up with yet another idea which would actually make for quite a compelling game!

Let us know your views below in the comments section.

Ender

Related Pages:

1. GTA 4 Coming To The PC!
2. Grand Theft Auto 4 Trailer Provides Hints of Game Content
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4. Grand Theft Auto 4 Content?
5. April Fools 2009 Roundup

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