Whereas Rockstar Video games is thought for its releases providing gamers epic sandboxes to mess around in, its titles additionally are likely to function well-regarded tales, because of the writing of one of many studio’s co-founders, Dan Houser. In an interview with IGN, nonetheless, Houser has revealed that Grand Theft Auto 6 would be the first recreation within the sequence since Grand Theft Auto: London 1969 to not function his writing.
It’s value noting that Houser left Rockstar Video games again in 2020 after having written for a number of Grand Theft Auto titles, in addition to Max Payne 3 and each Crimson Useless Redemption and its sequel Crimson Useless Redemption 2. When requested whether or not it is going to be bizarre for him to play a GTA recreation for the primary time with out figuring out every thing about it, Houser additionally joked that “I believe the world has in all probability had sufficient GTA from me.”
“I believe it’s an amazing privilege to have labored on one thing that massive,” mentioned Houser concerning the Grand Theft Auto franchise. “I wrote the final ten or eleven of them, so I believe the world has in all probability had sufficient GTA from me. There’s at all times a brand new story so it’s not going to be a narrative that I wrote or a personality set that I developed. I believe it’s going to be thrilling. The sport shall be nice.”
Apparently, the timeline of Houser’s departure from Rockstar Video games coincides with a report from again in November 2021 indicating that improvement on Grand Theft Auto 6 had been rebooted in 2020. Whether or not the reboot was in any method associated to Houser is unknown. Nevertheless, this rebooted improvement adopted up on troubled improvement, and lots of gameplay components and narrative particulars had been modified. The identical rumours have additionally indicated that Take-Two Interactive needed to initially unveil GTA 6 in 2020.
Take-Two Interactive had additionally famous earlier this 12 months that improvement on Grand Theft Auto 6 started “in earnest” in 2020. The corporate made the assertion in an earnings name, and its use of the phrase “earnest” indicated that there was possible some work that had already been accomplished for the sport earlier than 2020.
Shortly after asserting Houser’s departure from Rockstar Video games, Take-Two Interactive CEO Zelnick had spoken about how the studio has “actually by no means been stronger”. Addressing questions concerning the stability of Rockstar Video games within the wake of Dan Houser’s departure and underneath the management of studio president Sam Houser, Zelnick thanked Dan for his contributions and famous that Sam is a powerful chief for the studio.
Grand Theft Auto 6 is at present being developed for PS5 and Xbox Collection X/S, and is slated for launch on March 26, 2026. Rockstar Video games has been pretty enthusiastic concerning the launch, because it referred to the upcoming launch as “the biggest recreation launch in historical past” in a since-deleted job itemizing on its official web site.
“With the continued progress of Grand Theft Auto On-line and the upcoming launch of Grand Theft Auto 6, the profitable candidate will lead each the evolution and operation of the info platform supporting what would be the largest recreation launch in historical past,” wrote the corporate within the job itemizing earlier this month.
