GTA 6 City of the Week is a weekly article series here on GTA BOOM. Every week, we will evaluate a different city in the United States, gauging how well it would fit GTA 6 as a setting.
GTA V News Recap
Summer has hit with full force, making both gamers and GPUs alike sweat uncontrollably. The community is still in the buzz of E3 despite it having concluded quite some time ago. Rockstar unfortunately ended up being a no-show despite Take-Two hyping up the developer's presence beforehand. While no official word on their absence has been published, chances are it had something to do with a recent national tragedy.
While this means that Red Dead 3 unfortunately didn't get revealed by the studio, it also means that they didn't, not even accidentally, allude to what the possible setting of GTA 6 may be.
As such we can continue attempting to form educated guesses by exploring various potential settings and evaluate how they would fare as the maps of a GTA game.
We've taken a look at several cities over the course of these articles, having traveled from the west coast to the east with a few stops in between. We tried to fill these articles with as much relevant info as possible, but more importantly with correct info.
While the feedback on these has been mostly positive (some readers even take the time to write us emails), the occasional error or oversight is often picked to bits by less impressed readers — which, after all, is fair.
I've only ever visited the USA once, when I was a young child. I visited San Francisco, which incidentally serves as the inspiration for San Fierro in GTA San Andreas. I try to double check my info, but sometimes, a few things slip the net. I guess I'm taking these word to apologize in advance. Or something.
Now that we're done with that overlong tangent, let's dive right in to our next potential GTA 6 city.
San Diego
Known by its rather flashy nickname of "America's Finest City", San Diego is one of the southern border cities of the United States. It has grown together with the Mexican city of Tijuana, forming the second largest conurbation in the country (the US, that is) with a population of almost 5 million souls.
San Diego is an international financial center, serving as the main economic link between the USA and Mexico. The San Diego-Tijuana crossing is the busiest land border crossing in the world just for this reason. Naturally, this also makes it something of a hot spot for border violations.
However sunny San Diego is also a city very much invested in the future. The area has recently become known for its many biotech companies, which is partially thanks to the presence of the University of California, San Diego and its medical branch. Pharmaceuticals are also a major business in the area.
The city also has strong ties to the US military, especially the navy. San Diego is home not only to the only submarine and major shipbuilding yards on the west coast, as well as the largest naval fleet in the world with around 50 ships always present, alongside a massive contingent of naval officers. Many of the largest and most significant civilian defense contractors have headquarters in the city.
