Grand Theft Auto 6: 5 Time Periods Rockstar MUST Consider

In 1918 the First World War, the most violent and life-claiming conflict in human history, ended. Soon after, the world began to enjoy increasingly-common luxuries unheard of just five years prior.

Cars had slowly become a domestic necessity for the average person, fashion was evolving in forms unheard of and the glitz and glamour of a then-young Hollywood were radically changing people's aspirations and dreams. The roaring '20s are perhaps the most influential yet underrepresented years of the 20th Century, scarcely explored whatsoever in most forms of entertainment.

However, the 1920s was not the romanticised decade so lovingly portrayed in The Great Gatsby or Bugsy Malone and was in fact marked heavily by new forms of crime. From Italian crime families beginning to rise to never-before-seen heights in America, to street gangs reigning over dirt-poor neighbourhoods, the 1920s signalled the start of true opportunity for career criminals in America.

As cars became common and gangs even more so, it's very easy to see how Rockstar could explore this era in ways impossible in other media. Breaking away from the Wild West and embracing industrialisation, the America of the 1920s marked the death of one world and the dawning of another.