It’s April 1st in Australia already and IGN Australia has already gotten up their (well-planned) April Fool’s Day joke. This one is about a leaked Rockstar game in partnership with Team Bondi titled Grand Theft Auto: Harbour City, set in Australia (go figure).

IGN Australia has apparently gotten two photos of the press release for the game, with this tagline under each picture: “”. They give the description of the game in their April Fool’s news report.

Grand Theft Auto: Harbour City expands and improves on (ed: not sure) the benchmark Grand Theft Auto IV from Rockstar North, bringing Rockstar Bondi (formerly Team Bondi) into the spotlight (ed: not sure).

Set during the 1970s(?), the story follows Harbour City resident and low-level thug, Tresle(?) ‘Thumb’ Conroy (ed: not sure), from his accidental invitation(?) into the high rollers’ gambling circuit(?) (ed: not sure) through to dominance of the city’s underworld, financial district and celebrity system(?). The tone pays reference to famous Australian con-films(?) ‘Chopper’ and ‘Dirty Deeds’.

The game’s mission-based structure will remain in place, with a greater emphasis on side-missions, environmental interactivity and destructibility. Harbour City will run on an enhanced version of the Rockstar Advanced Game Engine supported by the continued licensing of the Euphoria animation engine.

Missions will take players across the iconic Coathanger (Sydney Harbour Bridge) and Harbour City Amphitheatre (Sydney Opera House), into the sleazy (Seedy? Sassy?)(ed: not sure) Knight’s Crown (Kings Cross) and Greenleaf (Redfern) districts, into the surrounding beach communities of (Sheldon? Shevon? Slebbon?) (ed: not sure) (Bondi) and through the tangle of city streets and inner-city residential suburbs.

While Harbour City takes cues from Sydney’s urban landscape, a portion of the Australian outback will also feature (ed: whaaaa? Seriously?).

We won’t go any more in-depth and give you full detail on this, because it is a fake.

We’re just officers doing our job.

Grand Theft Auto: Harbour City Leaked [IGN Australia]