6 New GTA 6 Facts I Learned Ahead of Its Netflix First Look 1

In just a few short hours, we’ll have seen GTA 6 gameplay – and not the kind uploaded unscrupulously by an anthropomorphic, crypto currency obsessed leek.

But in the hours prior to Rockstar’s big Netflix coming out party, glossy magazine Dazed has an exclusive behind-the-scenes on the biggest PS5 game to date.

While it’s largely light on details, it does include a few new facts that I was interested to learn about.

They are:

  • San Andreas’ weight system will return, meaning Jason and Lucia will reflect your decisions physically. This means exercising will give them toned bodies, while lounging around eating Burgershot will make them fat. They’ll also physically deteriorate from a lack of sleep.
  • The release has a full in-game social network feed, building on the ideas introduced in GTA 5. When Jason and Lucia are in a car together, you can choose to ride shotgun and scroll your smartphone, while your partner drives.
  • The game will have the most varied character population ever created, with a huge number of different NPC personalities, behaviours, body types, and reactions. They’ll respond to everything you do in the game, like carrying a rifle down the street or driving recklessly.
  • Your decisions will have consequences, and you’ll be given the freedom to shape the kind of characters Jason and Lucia ultimately become.
  • Rockstar’s team size has doubled since the release of Red Dead Redemption 2 in 2018. At the time of Arthur Morgan’s adventure, it was said to employ around 2,000 staff.
  • The studio paid more than 50 real-life street artists to create murals and graffiti for Leonida, its sandbox setting.

Obviously, this is just the appetiser before tomorrow’s big GTA 6 Extended Look, which will air first on Netflix. You can find out when and where to watch that through here.

Reading through the Dazed article, a big theme that stuck out to me is how Rockstar is balancing realism with the kind of chaos GTA is known for.

I think that’s probably going to be the ultimate challenge for the game, because it sounds like it’s leaning hard into the life sim elements here, but some people will just want to get a rocket launcher and blow the entire city up.

I’d expect tomorrow’s big reveal to explore both possibilities and play styles, while also showcasing what kind of decisions you can make in the game and why they matter.

It’s emerged today that some content creators also visited Rockstar’s headquarters in Scotland recently, so expect tons more information to emerge in the aftermath of the Netflix broadcast.

[source dazeddigital.com]