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There’s also an array of clothes you can equip your characters with, which Rockstar has apparently coordinated with real-life fashion designers to put in the game. Some of these, however, may only come with the $100 Ultimate Edition that people are very mad about.
Maybe Don’t Hit and Run
The NPCs in the game appear much more responsive and interactive than in prior games. According to Dazed, Rockstar has an entire studio in Los Angeles dedicated to working on NPC pedestrian behavior alone.
In the Extended Look, gameplay segments with car chases pointedly avoided streamrolling over pedestrians. But NPCs wore yoga outfits, rode scooters, and seemed to have more personality than the cut-and-paste crowds of past games.
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Driving seems greatly improved. When driving, you have a minimap that looks like an actual GPS map guiding you where to go. A car chase saw the main characters running from the police. The player can switch between Lucia and Jason and choose to either drive or shoot at the pursuers. Shooting out tires can cause a car to flip, crash into the sidewalk, and cause environmental destruction.
At one point, a character also body-slams a cop through a wall, which hints at potentially more destructive environments indoors as well. GTA games have been iffy about destructible environments before, though. Sometimes in GTA V you can easily crash through a large light pole but then get instantly stopped by a volleyball net. So we’ll see how reactive everything gets.
So Much Room for Activities
Vice City and the surrounding areas seem absolutely massive. It’s also fully Florida, allowing your characters to fanboat around the Everglades, kayak on the rivers, or scuba dive and jet ski in the Gulf.
One scene from the trailer shows Lucia accidentally kidnapping a livestreaming influencer, then carrying him along through a car chase from the police. Many of the characters use phones and communicate via text. It’s clear that GTA VI has some satirical takes on social media, but we’ll see how relevant it feels in a constantly shifting era.
You Can Pet the Dog
A dog is in at least one scene of the game. Can you pet it? Yes. Yes, you can.
User-Generated Content
In 2023, Rockstar bought the modding marketplace Cfx and reworked it into an official place to share and purchase user-created mods for the game. That service, along with GTA Online’s Rockstar Mission Creator, which lets users make custom levels and modes, indicates that Rockstar has long realized that GTA is fertile ground for user creativity.
The Extended Look didn’t show anything suggesting it would advance those user-creation capabilities, but that’s likely because the game is being released as a single-player title before any multiplayer elements are added.
