![]() We also know that developer Rockstar Games is committing to playable female and male leads, which would be a series first. It’s a cinch this game is set in Vice City, and I’m excited to go back there two decades after playing the original Grand Theft Auto: Vice City. Take everything seen at face value: This is visual confirmation of previous rumors. But I have no idea what “in some form” really means or what this game should look like at this point. Yes, as Bloomberg’s Jason Schreier reported this summer, GTA 6 has been in development “in some form” since 2014. It’s strange to see Twitter comments comparing the Vice City environment to Google Earth textures - as both compliment and insult - when it’s possible everything seen here is a placeholder. The truth is that this is just hype of a different kind, and just like the more conventional hype, we’d all do well to cool our expectations. And it definitely doesn’t follow some marketer’s plan, which is to hand-feed a discussion of a big game’s features, to sustain interest in (and desire for) a game from announcement to launch.īut setting Stuff They Don’t Want You to See loose into the wild like this is hardly a victory for transparency, or whatever higher-minded idea some might try to attach to what was, from the looks of it, an online burglary. This leak, comprising about an hour of in-development footage, is a work in progress in its rawest form, albeit without that little disclaimer at the bottom of the screen. And they help explain why Sunday’s unprecedented Grand Theft Auto 6 leak would dismay so many within the industry. ![]() Two terms I’ve grown accustomed to, in writing about video games, are “marketing cadence” and “work in progress.” They relate to all the authorized pre-release preview stuff I see about upcoming video games.
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