Rockstar Games has just revealed a new trailer along with the release date for the hotly anticipated compilation Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy -- Definitive Edition, and it will land on modern platforms this coming Nov.
As remasters of Grand Theft Auto 3, Vice City and San Andreas -- which first appeared on the PlayStation 2 -- these seminal open-world games from the early s will have improved visuals and revised control schemes that put them closer to par with modern action games. The consoles will also get physical edition on Dec. Along with the reveal of the release date, we also got to see a new trailer that gave us our first look at the game's updated visuals and control scheme, which will make heading back to these classic games all the more enticing.
Over the last few weeks, details about this collection of Rockstar's most popular games leaked online , so it's a bit of a surprise that we'll be able to get our hands on it much sooner than expected. With the Definitive Edition, the developers added an assortment of quality-of-life improvements to the three games, focusing on ensuring that they're true to the originals.
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. The reasoning behind this? 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.
This idea had a little bit more detail added to it by an alleged leak , which purportedly came via the friend of a disgruntled ex-Rockstar employee. If the information is to be believed, the game will be set in Florida, and have a map bigger than GTA 5 and Red Dead Redemption 2 combined, covering three cities including Vice City.
Players will apparently be able to control four different protagonists, expanding on GTA 5's three main characters. Another map leak appears to show more of the whole map, along with a section that fans are speculating could be based on the Kennedy Space Centre, based on its layout.
However, as usual there isn't much to validate this as real information. More intel comes from a Reddit poster that has collated various leaked images together to create a concept of what the map might look like.
It's expansive and features a huge ocean - such an empty space that we're pretty skeptical that it'll end up being real, unless Rockstar is taking the series in a very new, nautical direction. Now fresh rumours have circulated that the game's character roster will include a female playable character for the first time in the series, something that's long overdue in our minds.
The info comes courtesy of Tom Henderson, a longtime leaker who's made accurate claims in the past. 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.
The main story of each GTA game so far has involved criminality, as a rule, but the exact flavour is always up for change. A 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.
So when is GTA 6 coming out? Unfortunately, the new GTA 6 hasn't even been officially announced, never mind given a release date. That means that there's not much to go on from developer Rockstar Games about Grand Theft Auto 6 at the moment, but it doesn't mean that we haven't got a rough idea of when we can expect to get our hands on the new GTA. It seems that it's still early days for Grand Theft Auto 6, with a Kotaku report claiming that GTA 6, or at least "a new entry in the Grand Theft Auto series," was in early development as of April However, while the Kotaku report didn't give us an idea of when GTA 6 will release, publisher Take-Two Interactive's marketing budget may have given us our most solid GTA 6 release date hint.
This led industry analyst Jeff Cohen to predict that this spike is because GTA 6 is expected to release within this period. In a note to investors, included in VentureBeat's report, Cohen pointed out that previous marketing budgets have predicted the releases of other big releases from Take-Two Interactive, including Red Dead Redemption 2. If this prediction is correct then we would expect to see GTA 6 release sometime between April and March Originally this spike was expected to take place in the fiscal year , however, it's been pushed back to If it is GTA 6 that has caused this spike, this would suggest that a delay has occurred.
The notable leaker, who is primarily known for his mostly accurate leaks on Battlefield and Call of Duty, posted a video sharing a bunch of alleged GTA 6 details. In the video, Henderson predicts that GTA 6 isn't going to release until between and , based on his sources. There are a few reasons for this, according to Henderson. The biggest is that apparently, Rockstar Games has been focusing heavily on "employee wellbeing" for the past 15 to 16 months, with the developer aiming to avoid crunch culture.
Rockstar reportedly doesn't want to announce the game until it's confident that it will hit its release date, with an aim to avoid any delays, but wants to do so without making employees work extremely long hours to meet a deadline. Given the current PS5 and Xbox Series X shortages, Rockstar Games is apparently waiting until there is a "big enough market" for these consoles - in other words, until the majority of players can actually get their hands on them.
It's worth noting that Henderson did caveat that he is "not known for GTA 6 leaks" and that viewers should take these rumors will a grain of salt. This could also push a release date back, especially given the expanded and enhanced GTA 5 has been delayed from to Again, it's worth noting that GTA 6 hasn't been confirmed by Rockstar to even be in development, so we can only speculate about the release date. With all this in mind -and the tight-lipped nature of Rockstar - we probably shouldn't expect to get our hands on GTA 6 any time soon, nor do we expect an announcement for a while yet.
No GTA 6 trailer is getting out of that studio unless someone seriously screws up. It teased an announcement a few days before dropping the first trailer for either game. But we're not expecting one anytime soon. It's likely we will see Rockstar following the same pattern as with previous games, publishing a teaser a few days ahead of a full announcement trailer. So what about the GTA 6 map?
There's a plethora of rumors floating around suggesting a variety of settings for Grand Theft Auto 6 - making it hard to nail down which we will actually see in the final game. The reason for this code name is apparently because players will be able to fly between the US and South America in the game, though the majority of the action will take place in the former. This in combination with the source's assertion that the game will largely be set in Vice City the Rockstar version of Miami suggests there could be a focus on drug-running which would draw on the popularity of shows and movies like Narcos and Tom Cruise's Made in America.
Particularly if Rockstar holds on to that 80s setting. Another, now deleted, post on Reddit seemed to corroborate some of the claims in The Know Report. According to the Reddit poster behind the leak, the game, known as Project Americas, has been in production since , though it was placed on ice while Red Dead Redemption 2 was the focus.
The post claimed that GTA 6 could be expansive, set across multiple decades the s to s and locations one of which is Vice City, another Liberty City and another is a fictional city based on Rio de Janeiro. The game will apparently deal with one playable protagonist named Ricardo and play through their story as a rising drug lord with heavy inspiration from Netflix's Narcos series.
The story will allegedly be told through chapters, with a heavy emphasis on the visuals of changes in time as the story progresses.
While there's no estimated release date given, the post says that the plan is to release the game for the next generation only a claim that several reports have corroborated. While it's unlikely that the whole report is true even the poster says that the game's pre-alpha status means things are likely to change that's not to say some elements are impossible. Following these rumors, since early , a series of 'leaked' images have been emerging online that allegedly reveal sections of the overall GTA 6 map - and line up with the Project Americas rumor.
So far there have been four map leaks in total, each appearing to show a different section of the overall map. Fans have speculated about what each section of the map may be with locations rumored including Rio De Janeiro, the Everglades and Colombia. However, leaker Tom Henderson claims that, while Vice City will be coming to GTA 6 in some capacity, as the Project Americas rumor claims, that the map isn't as big as previous rumors claim.
In addition, Henderson claims that GTA 6 won't be set be in the 80s or 90s, but instead will have a modern setting. This is apparently to allow the base game to "fit" with GTA Online, with developers wanting "as much freedom as possible to release as many DLCs as possible". Another, slightly less believable, rumor posted anonymously on Pastebin - which has since been removed via Comic Book - claimed that GTA 6 will allow players to travel between several big cities, including Liberty City and Vice City.
The poster also claimed you start off as a small-time drug runner before joining an infamous gang and kicking it with the big dogs. The anonymous poster also claimed GTA 6 will feature both major cities along with a vast stretch of highways and Blaine County-like countryside in the middle of it all. In the Rockstar Newswire post announcing the November 11 release date of Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy , it was revealed that the project is being helmed by Grove Street Games with Rockstar only assisting as a publishing partner.
These realities alone could have shifted the release date of GTA 6 as much as one year removed from where it was previously planned. At least for now, it looks like Rockstar has elected to take the latter path, but not every game-maker has.
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