10 GTA 6 Theories That Might Actually Be True
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The Grand Theft Auto protagonists have had a variety of motivations over the years, but one of the main driving forces throughout all the games is accumulating as much wealth as possible, and GTA6 could potentially lean into this even more. Players have been able to purchase properties as far back as Vice City, but coupled with GTA5’s stock market mechanics, GTA 6 could lean fully into the business tycoon side of the player’s rise to the top. This could come in many forms, such as running the businesses as either legitimate or an illegal front for players' more illegal activities. Think extortion and blackmail, import and export, or even building a drug empire with players needing to bribe the right people as well as plan smuggling routes for their shipments. In the criminal world of GTA, the number of illicit activities is nearly endless.
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Rockstar have long been the pioneers of the gaming industry, leading the charge for open world game design and player freedom. With GTA5’s port to the PS4 and Xbox One, they also opened a new way to experience the world of Los Santos by giving players the option to play the entire game in first person. With numerous advancements in technology over the last decade, Rockstar could once again offer players a new way to play and live out their grand theft autoing fantasies by letting them explore their world in virtual reality. We honestly have no idea how this would work but it could be a bombshell reveal for players who truly want to be immersed in Rockstar’s next GTA outing.
Familiar Faces
While all of the Grand Theft Auto games seem to be mostly self-contained, that doesn’t mean there hasn’t been some crossover throughout the numerous entries. From GTA 3’s Claude making a brief appearance in San Andreas to Packie from GTA 4 joining the player’s heist team as a gunman, as well as Johnny Klebitz meeting his end at Trevor’s hand, Rockstar is no stranger to dropping fan favorite characters into their sequels for longtime fans to encounter. With GTA 6 undoubtedly being one of Rockstar’s biggest games to date, there’s a high chance players will cross paths with any number of past or future protagonists from the series, depending on the game’s time period. Given their popularity, players could easily cross paths with the fan favorite characters of GTA5, but only time will tell who, if any, could make a comeback.
Timeline
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With seven mainline games, not including their numerous expansions and spinoffs, the Grand Theft Auto series has been carjacking people over a number of decades, both in and out of their games. While their most recent titles have primarily stuck to a more modern era, there is also a possibility that players could travel back in time to the 70s, or even more excitingly, across multiple decades with players seeing the rise, fall and eventual resurrection of their empire. While this would by far be the most ambitious approach to their newest entry, especially because it would mean they would need to design and build multiple versions of cities, cars and characters, there’s no denying this would set a new benchmark in open worlds and once again prove Rockstar is the king of the genre they helped to popularize.
Branching Storyline
In their most recent epics GTA5 and Red Dead Redemption 2, Rockstar experimented with offering players choices on how to affect their character’s playthrough. While these choices were arguably much deeper in Red Dead 2 than GTA5, Rockstar could further develop this mechanic and offer players even more choice in how their story plays out. While it’s unlikely players will be given the wealth of options normally seen in something like a Mass Effect game, they could be offered branching story moments that could influence the narrative’s overall outcome. We loved molding our Arthur into a man on a path of redemption just as much as a murderous psychopath with no moral compass and we’d love to see these options expanded upon in Rockstar’s next epic tale.
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In recent years, games like Cyberpunk 2077 have stepped up the game so to speak when it comes to detailed cityscapes. With the same attention to detail on the street level with densely packed alleyways and businesses, the player can freely enter and explore instead of them being merely window dressing. While it’s unlikely Rockstar has had time to develop a new engine since using it for Red Dead 2, a new more powerful version would show off what the team is truly capable of. Not only would a new engine be something to look forward to, so would more interactivity within the environments themselves, especially if they managed to incorporate dynamic weather effects as well. Somehow with even more powerful tech, the number of objects players can interact with or destroy has dropped significantly with recent games, and we’d love to see maybe not a fully destructible world but certainly one with more realistic physics.
GTA Always Online
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It’s no secret that GTA Online has become a worldwide runaway success that far exceeded even Rockstar’s own expectations and will no doubt be an integral part of the next entry in their best-selling series as well. However, given their undisputed success with GTA Online, there also comes the possibility that the mode could become synonymous with GTA 6, integrating both single player and multiplayer elements into one always online live service juggernaut. With so much revenue being made just from GTA Online alone, there’s no way that it won’t play a major role, but we’re hoping Rockstar won’t sacrifice their excellent storytelling, world building and characters for yet another live service game in an industry swimming with them.
RPG Elements Leveled Up
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The GTA series has never been shy about changing up their formula and getting a little experimental, but San Andreas and GTA5 stand out especially with their RPG-like features that allowed players to fully customize their CJ, Franklin, Trevor and Micheal in a myriad of different styles - the latter 3 even having their own stats for players to consider during missions. Rockstar could offer players even more creative freedom with GTA6, allowing them to fully customize their own character as well as offer activities for players to level up skills, giving them more freedom to play their way. While the system will undoubtedly be less open ended than something like the recent Saints Row (Rockstar seems to have left much of their over-the-top silliness in the past), there is still a wealth of options that could be available to the player to fully immerse themselves in Rockstar’s newest GTA.
Vice City Return
Rockstar loves to revisit the classics. After returning to Liberty City with GTA 4, the developers also returned to Los Santos in GTA5, and with GTA6, we’d love for them to return to Vice City. We’ve gotten glimpses of what a modern version of Vice City could look like with the more tropical beach locales in Los Santos, but we’d like to see a fully realized GTA-style take on Miami and Miami Beach. Beyond this, there are some who are hoping for a fully open world USA, albeit not one-to-one of course, but something akin to what Ubisoft’s The Crew attempted to do. However, we feel that this would stretch Rockstar’s strength of highly detailed open world cities a bit too far and could end up falling into the trap of open world emptiness other titles who’ve attempted something similar have fallen victim to.
Both Sides of the Law
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Arguably the most popular theory is that players will be taking on the role of a female protagonist for the first time in the series, but we might also once again be given more than one protagonist, this time one on the side of the law. This simple tweak would fundamentally change the dynamic of a series well known for shirking the law at every given opportunity, especially if players are taking on the role of law enforcement on the hunt for our other protagonist. Making story decisions that can affect how close law enforcement gets to capturing your criminal and what you’ve learned from playing it straight to stay one step ahead would make for an exciting cat-and-mouse game entirely within the player’s control and would certainly break the mold that made the series a household name for over 2 decades. What are you most hoping to see in GTA6? Let us know down in the comments.
