Grand Theft Auto VI

 Grand Theft Auto VI is an upcoming motion-adventure recreation in improvement by way of Rockstar Games. It is because of be the eighth main Grand Theft Auto recreation, following Grand Theft Auto V 2013, and the sixteenth entry normal. Set in the fictional open international state of Leonida based totally on Florida and its Miami-stimulated Vice City, the story is expected to comply with the crook duo of Lucia and her male partner.

Following years of speculation and anticipation, Rockstar showed in February 2022 that the sport turned into in improvement. That September, photos from unfinished variations turned into leaked on line in what reporters defined as one in every of the most important leaks in the records of the online game enterprise. The game was formally discovered in December 2023 and is scheduled to be released in late 2025 for the PlayStation five and Xbox Series X/S.

Setting and characters

Grand Theft Auto VI is an movement-journey sport set within the fictional open international kingdom of Leonida primarily based on Florida which incorporates Vice City, a fictionalized version of Miami. Vice City turned into previously featured in Grand Theft Auto 1997 and as the main setting of Grand Theft Auto: Vice City 2002 and Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories 2006. As with previous titles in the collection, the sport global parodies current American subculture, with satirical depictions of social media and influencer subculture, and references to Internet memes inclusive of the Florida Man. The story follows a crook duo: Lucia, the collection' first female protagonist seeing that 2000, and her male companion; the primary trailer depicts Lucia as a prison inmate, and later evading custody with her partner.

Development

Following Grand Theft Auto V's launch in 2013, Rockstar North's then-president Leslie Benzie's said the company had some thoughts for the collection' subsequent access. In 2018, The Know mentioned that the sport, code-named Project Americas, would be set commonly in Vice City and partly in South America with a lady protagonist. In 2020, journalist Jason Schreier said the game became early in improvement as a moderately sized release that could make bigger over time, to keep away from its predecessors' developer crunch. In 2021, Tom Henderson claimed the sport's map should evolve comparable to Fortnight Battle Royale. In 2022, Schreier said the game entered development in 2014 and might function two Bonnie and Clyde–inspired protagonists, together with a Latina woman, and claimed the developers were carefully subverting the collection' trend of joking approximately marginalized organizations.

The recreation have become noticeably expected in the years before its declaration, and newshounds referred to some fanatics became pissed off via Rockstar Gomes's endured silence, specifically when they announced a re-release of Grand Theft Auto V in 2020. An character referencing the sport acquired media attention for interrupting several stay level and television indicates. On 4 February 2022, Rockstar showed improvement changed into well underway. In July, Rockstar introduced Red Dead Online could not receive extra predominant updates as improvement sources were withdrawn to awareness on the upcoming recreation; industry assets said Rockstar reallocated sources after deliberate remasters of Grand Theft Auto IV 2008 and Red Dead Redemption 2010 were paused due to the backlash obtained through Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy – The Definitive Edition 2021.

In November 2023, Rockstar president Sam Houser introduced the primary trailer could launch in early December to have a good time the company's 25th anniversary. Within 5 hours, the declaration on X previously Twitter surpassed two preceding posts approximately the sport to turn out to be the platform's most-liked gaming-associated put up, later passed through Rockstar's post saying the trailer's 5 December launch date, with 1.Eight million likes in 24 hours. Other developers imitated the declaration's formatting to promote their trailers. On 4 December, a low-best version of the trailer became leaked on X; in response, Rockstar posted the reputable version on YouTube, revealing the name, protagonists, putting, and release window of 2025 for the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S.

The trailer broke the file for maximum first-day views on a non-song YouTube video inside 12 hours, with 46 million, and, inside 24 hours, have become the 1/3-maximum-regarded standard, with ninety three million, and most-liked game trailer, with 8.Nine million. It passed the lifetime viewership of Grand Theft Auto V's 2011 display trailer inside  days, with one zero one million views, and have become the second one-most-considered sport trailer via January, with 168 million. Its featured music, Tom Petty's Love Is a Long Road, saw a near-37,000% boom in Spotify streams, had almost 250,000 searches on Shazam, and ranked 2d on the worldwide iTunes chart. The trailer spawned fan-created recreations in different video video games, as a brickfilm, and in stay-movement by way of the Hyundai World Rally Team.

In February 2024, Schreier said that Rockstar asked employees end remote paintings and return to places of work full time from 15 April for productivity and protection as improvement entered its very last tiers. The Independent Workers' Union of Great Britain criticised the decision for contradicting Rockstar's in advance promise to preserve bendy working conditions, with some employees concerned it could negatively impact group of workers fitness and morale and result in resignations and crunch situations. In March, Kotaku's Zack Zwiezen said the choice became partly to avoid a put off from the internally scheduled early 2025 launch window; improvement falling behind meant overdue 2025 seemed greater realistic, with a potential postpone to 2026 as a fallback plan. Rockstar's parent organization Take-Two Interactive's percentage charge therefore dropped by using more than 5 in keeping with cent. Other reporters refuted the document, noting the sport remained on schedule, and Schreier wrote there was no indication improvement had been impacted. In May, Take-Two confirmed the game was scheduled for overdue 2025.