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Grand Theft Auto 6 will feature a playable female protagonist for the first time; she's a latina that is one of a pair of leading characters, influenced by Bonnie & Clyde
Working title Project Americas
Main location is a fictional version of Miami + its surrounding areas
Game will evolve over time, adding new cities
The game world is already large; more interior locations than prev. GTA games

(Bloomberg) -- After a public controversy four years ago, Rockstar, the maker of Grand Theft Auto, is reinventing itself as a kinder, gentler company. But employees aren’t sure it can still produce the chart-topping caliber of game the studio has become known for.

The development of Grand Theft Auto VI has been slower than impatient fans and even longtime employees have expected, despite morale across the company being higher than ever, according to many staffers. Between the company’s new direction and the 2019 departure of Dan Houser, who led creative direction on many previous games, all indications suggest Grand Theft Auto VI will feel very different than its predecessor.

Read the full story for more details on the development process of GTA VI.

Here’s what we know.

There will be a female protagonist

The game will feature a playable female protagonist for the first time, according to people familiar with the matter. The woman is Latina and will be one of a pair of leading characters in a story influenced by the bank robbers Bonnie and Clyde. Developers are also being cautious not to “punch down” by making jokes about marginalized groups, the people said, in contrast with previous Grand Theft Auto games.

The game’s release is likely two years away

Developers of the next Grand Theft Auto say the game will be out sometime in Take-Two’s 2024 fiscal year, which runs from April 2023 through March 2024. But developers are skeptical. The game has been in development in some form since 2014. Although there are loose schedules in place, people interviewed for this article said they didn’t know of any firm release date and that they expect the game to be at least two years away. Earlier this year, a group of designers quit Rockstar’s Edinburgh office, telling colleagues they were sick of the lack of progress.

Rockstar wanted to include large portions of North and South America but had to be reeled in

Original plans for the title, which is code-named Project Americas, were for it to be bigger than any Grand Theft Auto game to date. Early designs called for the inclusion of territories modeled after large swaths of North and South America, according to people familiar with the plans.

The new map is a fictionalized Miami but will update over time

The game’s new map is now focused on a fictional version of Miami and its surrounding areas. Rockstar’s plan is to continually update the game over time, adding new missions and cities on a regular basis, which leadership hopes will lead to less crunch during the game’s final months.

I'll give em the benefit of the doubt since Rockstar usually puts out next level games

Inb4 Hispanics sue


This is racist!!!

Rip

Zero fuking originality from Rockstar. They’ve literally been recycling Vice City, Los Santos and Liberty City since the 90s. How about a new city to explore? Base it on Texas, Detroit, Chicago, etc. or how about a different country?

And on top of that GRAND THEFT AUTO is going woke?

Fuk this gay earth SRS.

She better be hot with big tits. Don't give a fuk about her race. As long as I can run everyone over, crash planes, etc etc WHO FUKING CARES

If they go too woke this will be the first one I don't buy. I will not support the bs.

won't buy don't play female characters

Lmao rockstar went full woke. Will not buy

Lol at miscers getting mad that a video game will have a female lead character. The game style is bonnie and Clyde...

And since when is having female video game characters going woke?

a female identifying woman of color you bigot

Screw you dude. It’s all men that play this game and they want me to play as a b i t c h lmao

Misc bigots is mad

A female character who runs around lightning fast and can super man punch full grown men across the street while same time tackling the biggest drug ring men beating them to bloody pulps.

Yeah okay


About as stupid as making the female hulk whos stronger than the original hulk



We both know how it goes down if a trans woman enters an mma cage against a genetic female athlete


Or female sprinter to a male


Or swimmer



It just doesn’t make sense, pushing this woke sht is really fkn annoying and I will not support anybody who belittles any race or ethnicity

i feel GTA is the one franchise that can't afford to go woke without extreme backlash

It's not only that, "Developers are also being cautious not to “punch down” by making jokes about marginalized groups, the people said, in contrast with previous Grand Theft Auto games."

Mind you you're playing as a fuking criminal in these games. Now you'll be playing as a PC, woke criminal. It's just fuking stupid. I don't care that much if it's just a female character as long as there are other characters. I played the assassins creed with the female and didn't mind.

1st mission: Suck off your boss in his office and get that bag gurl.

2nd mission: Take over a gym and kick all the men out for being toxic and unwelcoming to women

lol I wonder if she'll have an OnlyFans account

Explain, in detail, how it is bigoted for a man to not want to play a game with a female protag?

Wonder if she will have that original half shaved hair style.

Because its completely irrelevant and only a bigot would care about that. We play games as animals and aliens, but a woman is too far?

Bigot

Tomb Raider, Metroid, Resident Evil. There's been tons of games with female main characters since the dawn of gaming but GTA is where miscers draw the line lol.

Autism.

At long as the antagonist is a cis white male

Lmao seriously

Just who do they think is playing GTA?

Yeah no difference in expectations between Tomb Raider, Metroid, Resident Evil, Bayonetta, Final Fantasy, and Grand Theft Auto. If Legend of Zelda had you solely play as Zelda it wouldn't be as good. Nobody complained about having to play as a girl when a new game Bayonetta was released, however if they decided the next Devil May Cry was going to have a female lead you would question the motivation

It's like watching an action movie where the tiny woman beats the chit out of all the men 3x her size. It's just not very believable. Same ideas applies here with GTA

Also you're forgetting the politics of a decision like this. They are inserting a female lead cuz female lead and women's lib. Hiring women for the sake of women. Maybe Rockstar should start a new IP altogether and give it a female protagonist? But no they have to take an existing franchise and change it up superficially to appease the minority outcry. I'm sure you are aware of the difference.

Do you think this fictional Latina video game character will also turn you down tiny Tyrone?

Why even respond to that sissy ass bitch. Just look at that cucked sig.

As long as she’s white and not fat!

That latina in san andreas was hood as a bitch. I thoroughly enjoyed doing the side missions with her

On a side note, they say playable…does that mean you have an option of who you can choose or forced to play her

I know when I was playing wow I always chose the females because their animation movement and graphics were better than the males