So the rumourmongers have once again set blogs and forums alight! Grand Theft Auto, commonly abbreviated GTA! The criminal act of stealing or attempting to steal a motor vehicle. It’s a series that has gunned it’s way to infamy with some and greatness with others! Controversy seems to follow GTA around like an obedient pet and with each instalment, Rockstar Games, the developer, the antagonist’s of the computer and videogame world seem to be able to create more anarchy and much more anticipation single-handedly. That’s the creative genius of Rockstar Games, whose shear willingness to create over-the-top enthralling games that push the boundaries and ignore the skulduggery of politics, even if it means upsetting the minority along the way. This philosophy has propelled them to the pinnacle of development. The tip of the sword? A of hail of bullets which they shoot and the press returns, tenfold!

The games themselves have come along way since the days of the top down, action, adventure, racing game that David “Realtime Worlds”Jones first created way back in 1997, MCMXCVII. The year two heavily armed bank robbers battled with officers of the LAPD in what would come to be known as the North Hollywood shootout! Sounds very much like a page from Rockstar’s book, or did Rockstar take a page from 28th February, 1997?

So if the rumours are anything to go by? Hollywood is the setting for the next Grand Theft Auto game and death and destruction will most certainly be on the menu in Tinseltown! No details as to what year it’s to be set in, but I really don’t mind what year it is as long as I get to blow up the “Hollywood” sign and star in a movie! And not an “X” rated one, unless Keira Knightley is cast… kind of like a Domino Harvey.

Now in my usual, damn this would be epic moments, I will name 5 things I would like/love to see in Grand Theft Auto 5.

1 & 2: As mentioned above.

3: Definitely got to acquire a sprawling house in the Hollywood hills which is used as a safe-house, come love nest with snooty neighbours that haven’t got a clue your a serious “Not right!” and despise your fleet of luxury cars parked on the driveway and the company you keep which includes high class ladies and prominent members of Hollywood’s elite.

4: An almighty epic shootout bigger, badder, ballsier than Three Leaf Clover! Okay, we all know Three Leaf Clover is inspired by Michael Mann’s Heat, the phenomenal remake of his previous work L.A. Takedown! But being able to battle it out on the streets of Los Angeles just as Al Pacino and Robert De Niro viciously did in one of Hollywood’s greatest cops and robbers flick is a giant MUST!

5: Be available for PC, Xbox 360 and PS3 day one! But I think Microsoft will put the mockers on that. $$$