By Ray Ampoloquio • Updated Jul 14 1 comment 1 By Ray Ampoloquio · Jul 14, 2026 · Updated Jul 14, 2026 1 comment 1 Zoom image: Jason Zumwalt wants back in for GTA 6, and he wants a GTA IV remaster. TL;DR Summary Roman Bellic's voice actor pushes for a Grand Theft Auto IV remaster as the current versions keep on losing licensed music.

"Cousin. It has been eighteen years, let us go bowling," is what Roman Bellic would probably tell Niko Bellic if timed passed by in Liberty City as it would in real life. Alas, it doesn't.

However, it hasn't stopped Jason Zumwald, the man who voiced everyone's favorite relative from Grand Theft Auto IV , from asking why the 2008 title still hasn't had a remaster yet .

For those who may have already forgotten, Roman is the cousin of Niko Bellic. He is a loud, hopeless, deeply lovable idiot who spends the entire game phoning you at the worst possible moment to ask if you want to go bowling. He is probably the single most quoted character in Grand Theft Auto history, probably next to Lamar Davis making fun of Franklin Clinton , and it's largely because that bowling invitation became an internet punchline that has outlived several console generations.

Roman is annoying in a way people are genuinely nostalgic about, which is a difficult trick to pull off.

With that said, Zumwalt wondering where the GTA IV remaster is isn't just a nostalgic whim. It's a legitimate question and the demand is there, especially since it's the hardest mainline title in the franchise to play right now . There is no current-generation console version.

The closest is the backwards compatible version on Xbox. The PC release has been a mess for years. To make matters worse, chunks of its licensed soundtrack, which was a huge part of what made Liberty City feel alive, have been stripped out over expiring music rights.

The game you can buy today is not the game people fell in love with, and it gets a little worse every time a license lapses.

This isn't a knock on Rockstar. It's a question, and a point about preservation, landing squarely in the middle of a conversatiion this industry is already having about who is responsible for keeping games playable once the money dries up. A remaster of GTA IV is the only realistic way that game survives in a form resembling what it originally was, giving a whole new generation a chance to play one of the best things Rockstar ever made, properly, for the first time in years.

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