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
E3 is rapidly approaching, however while many of the players are busy with rampant speculation as to what Rockstar may be revealing — because we now know for a fact that the company is working on something — equal amount of attention is being directed at what the immediate future of GTA Online will be like.
The community has gone a good long while without any major DLC release. So far, the drip-few lowriders and the Adversary Modes released this year were hardly enough to satiate the ravenous hunger of the player-base for new content.
Rockstar did recently announce their mid-term plans when it comes to DLC for GTA Online. They will be releasing an overhaul of the Content Creator bundled with new vehicles designed specifically for stunting. The Creator overhaul will not only add new features and props to the game, but it will also fix that bothersome issue that prevents the stacking of objects.
A follow-up to Executives and Other Criminals, titled — in a similarly long fashion — Further Adventures in Finance and Felony will also be released. This DLC will add a massive amount of new missions and whole new mission types, along with new vehicles, properties, weapons and clothing items. This will be the first truly major DLC release of 2016.
However, these DLCs might be pushed out of the spotlight by the upcoming E3 convention. While it is increasingly unlikely that we'll see any footage of GTA IV, Rockstar might at the very least confirm its existence.
In the mean time, let's look at another possible setting for the next GTA game. Will the city prove to be a good inspiration for a map, or will it go up in smoke.
Tampa, Florida
The Big Guava, as it is otherwise known, is the most prominent city in the Greater Tampa Bay Area. The city itself has a little over 300,000 residents, however the GTB area is home to more than four million souls. Despite being neither the largest city in the state, nor its capital, Tampa is among the most widely known cities in Florida. It acts as the seat of Hillsborough County, though parts of it, due to agglomeration, reach over into other counties. It is considered to be among the most popular American cities "where people want to live" (yes, that's the official classification) based on a research study a few years ago.
Tampa and the adjacent cities with which it has grown together sit in a smaller bay in Florida which opens up to the Gulf of Mexico, placing the city on the western coast of the peninsula. The fact that this is a bay area featuring several semi-conjoined settlements with intermittent suburb and un-urbanized areas makes the city and its surroundings absolutely perfect for a GTA game. The Hillsborough and Palm rivers both flow through the city, and what is called "Tampa Bay" actually is a collective term for a number of bays jutting inland.
In terms of economic importance, Tampa is a major player as far as Florida is concerned, but beyond that, not much. This isn't a major logistics center like Atlanta, for example. Tampa, however is a major tobacco manufacturing center, the historical roots of which lie in the cigar factories of Ybor City — most of which don't function anymore.
