Despite speculation about the next Grand Theft Auto including online play, it appears this won' t be the case. According to a recent article on gamesindustry.biz, Rockstar creative director Dan Houser has confirmed that no online play will be included in GTA: San Andreas.
" San Andreas will not be online, we would have to sacrifice too much for it," Houser said. " 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."

Even though San Andreas won' t be online, that doesn' t necessarily mean that no future GTA title ever will be. Houser wouldn' t confirm or deny the possibility of online play sometime in the future.

" We are thinking about it," he said, " 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."