Grand Theft Auto VI, the following entry in Rockstar’s blockbuster open-world franchise, will reportedly be the primary to allow you to play as a feminine character in its story mode. That’s in keeping with a brand new report from Bloomberg, which simply printed a prolonged function on the sport’s improvement. The report additionally contains new particulars on the sport’s launch, which sources counsel is more likely to be at the least two years away.
Rockstar has reportedly made efforts to overtake its inside tradition ever for the reason that launch of its final main title, 2018’s Crimson Lifeless Redemption 2, was marred by stories of poor working situations on the studio. In accordance with Bloomberg, morale on the firm has improved considerably since then, and the event of GTA VI is being managed in such a approach in order to attenuate the crunch that staff skilled throughout the improvement of earlier titles.
Though GTA VI will reportedly function the collection’ first feminine protagonist, she’s unlikely to be the one playable character within the single-player portion of the sport. Bloomberg stories that GTA VI could have two protagonists influenced by Bonnie and Clyde. The feminine half of the pair will reportedly be Latina.
The report additionally contains new particulars on the sport’s setting, which is able to apparently be a fictionalized model of Miami, a location that brings to thoughts the setting that Rockstar used for 2002’s GTA: Vice Metropolis. Plans for the sport’s setting seem to have been scaled down throughout the sport’s improvement on condition that they initially consisted of enormous elements of each North and South America. However regardless of the deal with a single location, new missions and even cities may very well be added to the sport over time, Bloomberg notes, utilizing a improvement construction that the corporate hopes will cut back the necessity for improvement crunch.
Rockstar Video games declined to touch upon Bloomberg’s report. The studio formally confirmed it was engaged on a sequel to GTA V in February however didn’t announce any particulars about its launch date, setting, or protagonist.
Grand Theft Auto VI has been a very long time coming. The final mainline entry within the collection was first launched virtually 9 years in the past in September 2013, and the event of the sequel has taken so lengthy that the collection skipped the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One era of consoles completely (though an up to date model of GTA V was launched for each). The rationale for the uncharacteristic period of time between collection entries is believed to be the huge success of GTA On-line, the multiplayer and microtransaction-filled portion of GTA V that Rockstar has been constantly updating for the reason that sport’s unique launch.
Regardless of extra particulars about GTA VI rising, the sport seems to nonetheless be years away from launch. Bloomberg stories that there are plans on the studio to launch the title throughout Take-Two’s 2024 monetary yr, which ends on March 2024. However builders interviewed counsel a launch date may very well be even additional away and don’t anticipate it to be publicly accessible for at the least one other two years.