June 21^st, 2004 (12:00am) - In an interview with Ducth games magazine Power Unlimited, Rockstar creative director Dan Houser squashed hopes of an online component being included within the latest iteration in the series, GTA: San Andreas.

“San Andreas will not be online… we would have to sacrifice too much for it,” said Houser. "We have a lot of script writers working on GTA, and they use so many scenarios to build the story - it’s impossible to do that in an online game, that problem has not been solved."

However, these words do not rule out the chances of the Grand Theft Auto franchise including a multiplayer aspect in the future.

"We are thinking about it," he confessed, "but it’s simply better to do the things we want to see in GTA in a single-player game. I’m not saying that online games aren’t fun, but I do believe that online games are not yet ready for the immersive gameplay that GTA has to offer."