But the Xbox Series X and PS5 are due to launch at the end of the year and if GTA 6 followed the release pattern of its predecessor, Grand Theft Auto 5, it'd be released at the very tail end of. Grand Theft Auto V is a 2013 action-adventure game developed by Rockstar North. The game's development began soon after Grand Theft Auto IV's release. 5 Sales; 6 Grand Theft Auto Online; 7 Controversies; 8 Legacy; 9 Notes. The game missed its original projected Q2 2013 release date, pushed back to.
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As we know, the game will take place in and around Los Santos, including the beaches and the surrounding countryside. The game promises a deep story and online multiplayer is confirmed.
While the trailer yesterday seemingly presented more of the same from what Grand Theft Auto 4 brought fans, Rockstar Games founder, Sam Houser, hints that the game will be quite different.“Grand Theft Auto V is another radical reinvention of the Grand Theft Auto universe. We are incredibly excited to share our new vision with our fans.”That's the official and outside of the multiplayer confirmation - something we expected anyway - nothing new is revealed. Taking Houser's words into consideration when looking at the Grand Theft Auto V trailer more carefully, perhaps by 'radical reinvention' he is referring to the structure of the story. While there is one clear narrator voicing the trailer - who sounds like Ray Liotta's Tommy Vercetti character from Grand Theft Auto: Vice City but it's not according to his rep - the gameplay footage clearly presents at least three different characters individually and together for what appears to be a bank heist.Could that mean the narrative switches between different stories as players play different characters? Could online multiplayer then include co-op play? This is one of the as well as one of the key features we listed in Game Rant's wishlist of - it does offer the next logical step to the series.The last bit of speculation is surrounding the game's release date. Grand Theft Auto 4 released in 2008, nearly four years ago, and we've suspected for a long time that GTAV would release in 2012, justified further with the timing of the game's announcement and trailer.
While Rockstar hasn't set a release date, and they carefully worded that the game is in 'full development' in their official announcement, the trailer looks rather polished for in-game footage.Grand Theft Auto 4 came out four years after Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas and next summer would put Grand Theft Auto 5 nearly another four years after that. NowGamer pieced together from rather interesting information that hints that the release fate of GTAV could be on May 24th of next year. There are two reasons for this, first being the below screenshot from the trailer click to enlarge which contains the numbers '2405' (i.e. May 24) at the bottom, just below a sign that says 'For Sale.'
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It feels like only yesterday that Rockstar Games was releasing its critically-acclaimed, letting us loose into a massive frontier world of bandits and shoot-outs. It surely can't have been that long beforehand when it set loose the insanely successful, can it?Well, it very much can, actually. GTA 5 may have since been re-released to lengthen its lifespan, but it originally came out in 2013.
A lot has changed since then, and with a new generation of consoles around the corner, the and, rumours are starting to spin that the next game in Rockstar's most famous franchise could be on its way.We've gathered everything we know about Grand Theft Auto 6 right here for your delectation — let's get down to it. GTA 6 release dateStarting with possible release dates, it's worth giving you a bit of background. While GTA 5 released in 2013, Rockstar couldn't immediately turn its full attention to developing a sequel. It apparently did start work on GTA 6 in 2014, but meanwhile had the small matter of Red Dead Redemption 2 to make, let alone the PC, PS4 and Xbox One versions of GTA 5, and the PC and Google Stadia versions of Red Dead Redemption 2.All of those take work, but are now out of the way. That's the logic applied to a, purportedly from a playtester who's been in contact with GTA 6 during development.
That source, which remains uncorroborated, suggests that Rockstar is aiming for a late 2020 or 2021 release date.2020 would frankly be surprising at this stage - Rockstar would be dropping a major bombshell if it released a game of this magnitude within a year of announcing it. We're thinking the 2021 date is far more likely, with an announcement to precede it by about a year.Indeed, recent rumours suggest that a 2020 teaser announcement could be close, thanks to some strange artwork teases posted by the developer and a 'private' video found lurking on its YouTube channel.
This makes us further feel it'll be fully released in 2021 - or even 2022, taking Rockstar's trademark delays into account.(1/2)With the help of 's new YouTube video, I finally realized that Rockstar is gearing up to announce something. Now at GTAVINR we sincerely hope it's GTA 6. With a good chance that it will be but putting all the pieces together, a few months ago R. posted a job listing— GTA VI News & Leaks (@GTAVINR)That all said, another kernel of information recently appeared, in the form of Rockstar North's claims for UK Tax Relief.
There's a bit of controversy rumbling over whether you can really call the likes of GTA and Red Dead Redemption 2 'culturally British', as the tax scheme requires, but nonetheless Rockstar's accounting shows a steady flow of tax relief in recent years.As pointed out by, this is suggestive of continuous development, and some are using it as an indication that GTA 6 is underway. That's a bit of a stretch, since the tax claim is entirely generic and doesn't mention any franchises, but still - we know they're up to something! Rockstar GTA 6 platformsProbably the other key detail contained in that first big leak around GTA 6 concerned the platforms it's likely to release on.
Obviously, GTA 5 came out toward the tail end of a console generation, releasing on the PS3 and Xbox 360, then being re-released with better performance and graphics on the next set of consoles.Apparently that pattern won't be repeated with GTA 6, though. The leak suggests that the game will be exclusive to the Playstation 5 and Microsoft's.Given that both of those consoles are slated to release during the holiday season of 2020, that fits with what we've heard about the game's release window.However, given that Red Dead Redemption 2 took a lot less time to come to PC players than GTA 5 did years ago, it would be slightly surprising if GTA 6 doesn't also make its way to PC within a year of release. GTA 6 gameplayWaiting for details on a new GTA game generally involves one major area of speculation - where will it be set? While characters and storylines are just as subject to interesting details, there's something about GTA's setting that feels like the most pivotal choice Rockstar has to make.
Whether it's Liberty City, Los Santos or another metropolitan area, the playground in which players will run riot is a big question mark hanging over the game.At the moment this is where speculation is focused, with GTA Online players recently becoming convinced that GTA 6 will take place in Vice City, GTA 3's much-loved, neon-soaked alternative version of Miami. The reasoning behind this? GTA Online's latest racing DLC, Open Wheels, has a race circuit that looks suspiciously like the outline of a map that would include Miami, as well as a chunk of Mexico. The outline does look fairly clear, as you can see in the image below, but obviously Rockstar is keeping its own counsel at this stage.There have also been suggestions that Liberty City (from GTA III), San Andreas (from GTA: San Andreas, natch), and the Mid West could feature, or maybe even all of the above for different sections.Regardless, expect the game to push the boundaries of what the new hardware from Sony and Microsoft is capable of. There's no guarantee that the game world will be bigger and more detailed than the map from GTA 5, but that's certainly how things seem to be trending. Rockstar GTA 6 storyThe main story of each GTA game so far has involved criminality, as a rule, but the exact flavour is always up for change. The crucial bit of information when it comes to GTA 6's narrative is that Rockstar's co-founder, Dan Houser, left the studio in March.That means that one of the studio's key tastemakers and writers has departed, someone who, together with his brother Sam, has shaped the franchise's tone from the very beginning.Now, on the one hand, given the likely timing of the game there's a good chance that Dan Houser was able to have a full say and impact on the script and story before his departure.
On the other, if he was on his way out it's very possible that he wasn't nearly so involved. That means we could be in for a change of voice for GTA 6.Exactly how that would manifest is hard to guess at, but it's an interesting development for Rockstar, that's for sure.We'll keep adding more details to this round-up as and when new information comes out or actual announcements are made, so be sure to keep checking back.