It looks like we might finally have some information on Rockstar’s upcoming GTA VI thanks to an in-depth report from Bloomberg.
The report is aimed at addressing the changes that the company has made in the workplace. It is a mostly positive change with a reduced workload, worker-friendly office culture, and no crunch time. However, it is also leading to some difficulties in the development of the next marque project at the studio.
GTA VI has been in development in some capacity going back to 2014, but the project has received a lot of changes, and feature reductions over the years.
Here are the details on GTA VI’s Story and Gameplay that were shared in the lengthy report.
GTA VI Story and Gameplay Details
- It will feature two main protagonists one of which is a Latina Woman. First time in the series history.
- The story is inspired by Bonnie and Clyde’s Bank Robbery.
- The codename of the game internally as Project Americas.
- It was initially supposed to be larger than any other GTA game to date, but the focus shifted to a reduced scope later in development to reduce the workload on developers.
- The early plan was to create areas modeled after some sections of North and South America.
- The world map now features a fictional city modeled after Miami and its surrounding locations.
- It will have lot more interiors despite not offering a bigger map size.
- They are planning to make it a live-service game with more cities and missions being added after launch.
- This plan is aimed at reducing the crunch in the final stretch of development.
- There is no internal release date target, however, several analysts anticipate the game will be released in Take Two’s fiscal year 2024, or between March 2023 and April 2024.
This is the first time such details have been uncovered for the game. Since the source is solid, it is possible that this is the vision for the next Grand Theft Auto from Rockstar Games. They have also recently announced to stop supporting Red Dead Online and GTA Online in order to focus on the new Grand Theft Auto that they have in development.