Rockstar Games expanded on theGrand Theft Auto 4experience with substantial DLCs in the form ofThe Lost and the DamnedandThe Ballad of Gay Tony. EachGrand Theft Auto 4expansion introduced new playable characters, story developments, and gameplay features for fans to check out, earning widespread acclaim and even getting their own standalone release. Fans were hoping to see Rockstar Games release similar-qualitysingle-player DLC forGrand Theft Auto 5, but it never came, and instead the studio focused all its post-launch efforts on the incredibly popularGrand Theft Auto Onlinemultiplayer mode.
One would expect Rockstar Games to continue focusing on the online portions of itsGrand Theft Autogames, but it seems thatGrand Theft Auto 6may actually see the return of single-player DLC. This was suggested by insider and leaker Tez2, writing on theGTAforums. According to Tez2,Grand Theft Auto 6DLC will be like how Rockstar Games planned on expandingGTA 5before it decided to focus its attention onGTA Online. This will supposedly include new cities and missions, which will be planned prior to the game’s launch, whenever that may be.
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Reputable insiders have previously said thatGrand Theft Auto 6will feature an evolving map, with new cities added over time, so this tracks with those claims. Tez2 has said that the cities will be smaller in scale than the mainGrand Theft Auto 6city, comparing the new content to things likeCayo Perico fromGTA Onlineor the North Yankton missions fromGrand Theft Auto 5’s story mode. “If we are lucky, we could receive a fully fledged new city from time to time,” Tez2 said in the post.
Tez2’s post went into detail about some of Rockstar’s plans forGrand Theft Auto 5that were apparently scrapped. Rockstar Games had been planningGrand Theft Auto 5single-player DLC, and at one point apparently was even going tobring Liberty City to the game, but canned those ideas all the way back in 2015.
Rumors ofGTA 5adding Liberty City have persisted over the years, with some believing that the city would be added toGTA Online. Many bigGTA Onlineupdateshave come and gone with no Liberty City, and at this point, it seems highly unlikely that the rumors will prove to be true.
After all,Grand Theft Auto 6’s rumored release windowis 2024, so one would imagine that Rockstar will be focusing most of its effort on the new game moving forward.
Grand Theft Auto 6is in development.
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