They each spoke to both their time and place in specific ways, parodying the mass culture of those eras while also becoming the dominant mass culture of the early 2000s. GTA 4 tracked an immigrant’s story into a deeply commodified culture of grifters and schemers. Vice City played up the early 2000s nostalgia for the coke-fueled party scene of the 1980s and its visual and musical industries. The Grand Theft Auto franchise has always functioned as commentary, speaking directly to elements in mass culture, liberally borrowing the plots from different crime genre films and eras, trading on heroic melodrama and peppering these worlds with goofy violence.
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I’ve spent the last couple months slowly playing through the game on my Xbox Series X to figure out exactly where this artifact from 2013 lands nearly a decade later.Īfter all, it is an artifact. That number is only going to keep creeping up now that Grand Theft Auto 5 has launched on the newest gaming consoles (and now that new details about GTA 6 have reportedly emerged). The game is brain-splittingly big in its impact and its reach. If copies of GTA 5 were people, the total copies sold would be commensurate with the population of Bangladesh. A little short of 40 million people live in California. Not of the size of its world, or the weapons, vehicles, and people in it, but with sales data: Since its initial release in 2013, across all platforms, GTA 5 has sold something in the realm of 165 million copies worldwide. Some Rockstar employees don’t expect GTA 6 to be released until 2024 at the earliest, though the company has yet to reveal a firm release date.Any discussion of Grand Theft Auto 5 has to begin with scale.
Since Rockstar has improved workplace practices, employees have had healthier work schedules, with less crunch, which has extended the development time for GTA 6. Likewise, Rockstar has also reportedly improved its gender pay gap, with more of a focus on equality, and general workplace health - both physically and mentally. For instance, the company apparently scrapped plans to include a Cops ‘n’ Crooks mode in GTA Online after a police officer murdered George Floyd in the summer of 2020. The company, which was once known for poking fun at everyone, including marginalized groups, is being more conscious of what kind of content its games will include. It’s possible you’ll be able to swap between both of them on the fly, just as you could in GTA V, though it’s unclear how this will work when the game finally launches.īy all accounts, Rockstar (and GTA 6) are aiming to be much different than before. The outlet spoke with over 20 current and former Rockstar employees, who mostly consider the company’s recent changes to be positive, leading to an improvement in morale, overall.Īccording to the report, the GTA 6 protagonists will be influenced by Bonnie and Clyde. This comes by way of a Bloomberg report, citing people familiar with the game’s development. The decision coincides with Rockstar’s internal push to improve workplace practices and culture, with less required overtime and improvements to the company’s gender gap. If accurate, this will mark the first entry with a playable woman as the lead role. The highly anticipated Grand Theft Auto 6 will reportedly include a Latina protagonist who will be one of two leading characters in the upcoming game.
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