Rockstar Games guardian Take-Two Interactive says the eagerly awaited online game “Grand Theft Auto VI” can be launched in fall of 2025.
Rockstar had beforehand stated the subsequent installment to the blockbuster franchise can be obtainable subsequent 12 months, with out additional particulars.
The “narrowing” of the discharge got here in earnings figures from New York-based Take-Two, although no agency date has been set.
“Consumer anticipation for the title is unprecedented and our expectations for its commercial success continue to increase,” Take-Two stated.
But executives sidestepped questions in search of particulars about GTA VI throughout an earnings name.
“Rockstar hasn’t given any details on what its expectations are for the release,” Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick instructed analysts on Thursday. “A wonderful trailer that they put out broke the internet and more news will come from Rockstar in the fullness of time.”
The trailer exhibits GTA VI can be set in fictional Vice City, harking back to Miami, and seems to characteristic the primary playable feminine character within the franchise.
Set to the Tom Petty track “Love Is A Long Road,” the GTA VI trailer opens with a feminine character named Lucia being launched from jail in what seems to be a fictionalized model of Florida.
Near the shut of the one-minute-and-30-second trailer, she tells her male companion in crime: “The only way we are going to get through this is by sticking together, being a team.”
The pair go on to burst right into a retailer with pistols drawn and bandanas masking the decrease halves of their faces.
Fans had been fast to deduce the scene meant rumors of a “Bonnie and Clyde” kind crime couple are coming true.
Released a decade in the past, predecessor GTA V has offered greater than 200 million copies, in accordance with Zelnick.
With the sequence’ wild success has come loads of controversy.
Critics have from the start accused Grand Theft Auto of glorifying violence and inspiring gamers to interact in felony conduct – allegations Take-Two executives have denied.
GTA V gamers promote medicine, combat, rob, go on automobile rampages and extra.
Gameplay choices additionally included assaulting intercourse employees and going to strip golf equipment, elevating the ire of activists.
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