Summary of the GTA VI article from The Guardian.
Keza MacDonald visited Rockstar North in Edinburgh and saw GTA VI running with Rob Nelson and Jennifer Kolbe. Here are the details that stood out from The Guardian’s feature.
JASON AND LUCIA
• You can switch freely between Jason and Lucia most of the time, although some story sequences stick to one character’s perspective.
• They can call and text each other when they are apart. When they are together, you can press a button to make them hold hands or take them on dates to the gym, a bar or even a meditation retreat. A liquor store robbery also counts as a date.
• Nelson says that neglecting their relationship has consequences and that the player can influence whether it stays romantic. He describes this as the first GTA to include mechanics specifically designed to encourage empathy.
ROBBERIES AND POLICE CHASES
• Jason and Lucia start with basic locks and low-end cars they can hotwire, then work their way up to bigger jobs. Rockstar wants the way they commit crimes to fit the story of two young people trying to keep a low profile.
• You can scope out targets such as a petrol station or an upscale shop. The feature describes looking for back doors and safe codes, disabling cameras or taking the footage, and getting out before witnesses arrive.
• In one demo robbery, Lucia held the guards at gunpoint while Jason emptied a safe upstairs. A guard fought back, and the pair fled on a stolen motorbike as police cars and helicopters gave chase. They eventually got back to their car, stashed the cash, changed clothes and lay low outside the city.
• Nelson says your actions can affect how the game plays out. The article links this approach to Red Dead Redemption 2, where the story gives you reasons to act in character while leaving you free to do your own thing.
EXPLORING VICE CITY
• The demo included free roaming around a busy Vice City. You can overhear people chatting, and interrupting them can get anything from a curious reply to a string of insults. Jason even asked a woman if he could pet her dog.
• There are 62 types of birds to spot. The journalist noticed a gull by the beach, and Jason used binoculars to observe it and record it in a wildlife logbook.
• Petrol stations have illustrated magazines you can take off the rack and read. The demo also showed detailed eating animations and beer sloshing inside the bottles as Jason walked around with a six-pack.
DEVELOPMENT
• Rockstar began research trips to Miami in 2015. The game was originally codenamed Project Americas, reflecting an early plan to set it across two continents.
• Nearly 5,000 people worked on the game worldwide. Independent estimates put the budget above $1 billion, a figure Rockstar has yet to confirm.
• Kolbe said Rockstar could have made a quicker follow-up she called “GTA 5.5”. Nelson said the bigger challenge was deciding how much the team could actually build when technology was no longer the main constraint.
New GTA 6 marketing in Miami and more cities around the world:
- Amsterdam, Netherlands 🇳🇱
- Leidschendam, Netherlands 🇳🇱
- Zwolle, Netherlands 🇳🇱
- Brussels, Belgium 🇧🇪
- Riyadh, Saudi Arabia 🇸🇦
The video includes additional footage from NY, Lisbon, London, Madrid, Barcelona, Edinburgh, Chicago, Brisbane, Hamburg, and Santiago.
There are also early Album listening parties happening around the world on November 18 with gifts and giveaways, along with YouTube’s collab with Rockstar for a midnight launch livestream featuring creators from around the world.
Grand Theft Auto VI: The Album has leaked.
SIDE A
1. Starting From Zero – Justice (feat. Michael McDonald)
2. That’s It – Tung Lean (feat. Future & Metro Boomin)
3. Ahh Yea – Playboi Carti
4. Rhyno – Travis Scott
5. Sexy Magic – Catriel & Paco Amoroso, PinkPantheress, Fred Again.. & Etienne de Crécy
6. Flower in a Hurricane – Justice (feat. Tame Impala, SZA & King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard)
7. Go Easy – Dua Lipa
8. Last Thing You Need – Morgan Wallen
SIDE B
9. E – Jnayco
10. Suzuki – Fuerza Regida
11. Macacoa 3000 – Rauw Alejandro
12. Dance With Me – A Boogie Wit Da Hoodie (feat. Elkane)
13. Bigger – Burn Boy
14. Count Up – Gunna
15. Let’s Rock – Kodak Black & Don Toliver
16. Wakin Up Flex – Young Thug
17. Ikyfl – Tee Grizzley
18. Tff – Don Toliver
SIDE C
19. Don’t Chart – Cardi B
20. Oma – JT
21. Power Trip – Jennie
22. Blood in Your Eyes – Tove Lo
23. Fast Emotion – Zara Larsson
24. Sweet Like Candy – Camila Cabello
25. Only One – Fcukers
26. Sandunguea – Arca
27. Trowfe – Rina Sawayama
SIDE D
28. All Again – Rose Gray
29. Crazy for You – Lana Del Rey
30. Largate – Kali Uchis & Helado Negro
31. No Me Busques – Omar Apollo
32. Bright Lights, Big City – Keith Richards
33. Stone Kold Krazy Luvv – Jesse Johnson & Dan Funk
34. Overtown Lights – Stanley Clarke, Russell Davis & Robert Glasper
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BREAKING: GTA 6 THE ALBUM HAS LEAKED
34 songs from artists including Travis Scott, Playboi Carti, Lana Del Rey, Dua Lipa, JENNIE, SZA, Cardi B, Future, Camila Cabello, Zara Larsson, Tame Impala, Young Thug and more.
via @gtasix_
BREAKING: GTA 6 THE ALBUM HAS LEAKED
34 songs from artists including Travis Scott, Playboi Carti, Lana Del Rey, Dua Lipa, JENNIE, SZA, Cardi B, Future, Camila Cabello, Zara Larsson, Tame Impala, Young Thug and more.
via @gtasix_
BREAKING: The full GTA 6 album tracklist has leaked online.
34 songs from artists including Travis Scott, Playboi Carti, Lana Del Rey, Dua Lipa, JENNIE, SZA, Cardi B, Future, Camila Cabello, Zara Larsson, Tame Impala, Young Thug and more.
New GTA 6 details from The Guardian’s preview at Rockstar North:
- It’s the first title in the series to encourage empathy, as your actions will have some effect on how the game plays out
- You can rob high-end shops in a shopping mall
- A lot of devs have finished working on the game a month before release and are taking a well deserved rest after 10+ years of development
- Rockstar says they could’ve made GTA 5.5 and done it faster but that’s not what they wanted: “You have to take big swings. It can’t be just more of the same,” says Rob Nelson
- Rockstar says the game is really hard to close down because they always want to add more, but they reached the point where it needs to be finalized and released
- There are 62 types of birds you can record in a wildlife logbook and observe them through binoculars
- Every NPC you see has been designed by someone, even down to their clothes
- Tech limits are no longer the problem for Rockstar but it’s now the human resources and how much the team can build, simply throwing money at a game doesn’t guarantee it will be good
(via The Guardian / @GameRoll_)
BREAKING: Here is The Guardian’s full exclusive GTA 6 story from their Saturday edition.
It was literally just sitting there on the app, I checked it out of curiosity. Can’t believe no one else noticed.