GTA 6 will allow Jason and Lucia to complete high-value tasks, but Rockstar Games requires players to move on from being petty criminals first.
The last preview of this week the new Grand Theft Auto game has arrived thanks to a preview of The Guardian (via @GameRoll_). It included interviews with Rob Nelson, co-head of Rockstar North studio, and Jennifer Kolbe, head of publishing, who talked about what type of people GTA 6 will be aimed at and what type of people it is about.
Jason and Lucia are two names we’ve been hearing for years and they’re not going away anytime soon. After 13 years, loyal GTA fans will soon finally be able to jump into the next mainline game in the groundbreaking open-world sandbox series. However, they won’t be able to pull off front-page heists right away.
The Guardian said players won’t be allowed to let the duo rob Vice City’s jewelry stores or drive around Leonida in sports cars in the opening moments of GTA 6. Instead, they will only be able to “plug in low-end vehicles and pick basic locks” until they work their way into high-value work later. The threshold for reaching these moments remains unclear, but given that Rockstar has been hard at work on the game for over a decade, it’s probably best that players don’t force their way to the top too quickly.
Nelson described the “young couple” as a “backs against the wall” couple when we first met them. We know that GTA 6 takes inspiration from Red Dead Redemption 2 in some ways, so Jason and Lucia won’t be pulling an RPG out of their back pocket – at least at first. The article adds that robbing everything from gas stations to high-end shopping malls could be easier or more successful if players took the time to complete additional steps. This could mean disabling security cameras or stealing surveillance footage, or scouting locations for more discreet entry points.
Skip the preparations and a flight could quickly become chaotic. This is where thinking on your toes will prove beneficial not only to your success, but to Jason and Lucia as well. Judging by some of the Wanted system changes that Rockstar has detailed in the past, players may want to think twice before reacting impulsively.
A more detailed and realistic worldline with another new element taken into account by Rockstar: empathy. As detailed by The Guardian, Nelson and the rest of the team promised that GTA 6 would include “mechanics to encourage” empathy for the first time in the series’ history. Exactly what that means remains to be seen, but with many details and different ways to play, we likely won’t fully understand the developers’ vision until we meet Jason and Lucia ourselves.
GTA 6 launches for PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S on November 19. For more, you can check out IGN’s preview from earlier this year. You can also check out the recent leak that revealed the full tracklist for the game’s official album and why we’re excited to jump into Vice City, even if it’s at 30fps.
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