It’s fairly actually the secret: Rockstar’s Grand Theft Auto collection is all about stealing vehicles. And the newest installment of the franchise, GTA 6, looks as if it’s about to revolutionize one of the crucial thrilling experiences gamers can have in a online game. What might be extra enjoyable than stealing a fabulously costly automobile, rushing round, crashing into stuff, after which ditching it on the facet of the highway in a battered heap?
Grand Theft Auto 6: An Prolonged Look premiered on Netflix again on Aug. 27, however having watched it once more for a second time, a variety of new particulars caught out to me. After the chilly opening sequence with the drug deal gone improper, what’s the very first thing we see? Jason stealing a automobile. It’s an orangey-red American beater with a black vinyl high, and appears to be of a late ‘70s or early ‘80s pedigree. A immediate seems on-screen: one button to bust the window, one other to make use of a slim jim to edge the window down barely and launch the lock, leaving the window intact. Jason chooses the latter, which takes a bit longer and requires some exact inputs on the controller, however is much less more likely to entice consideration.
Again in GTA 5, stealing vehicles was a extra streamlined affair: you’d method a automobile with somebody in it, and pressure them out with a single button press. You could possibly additionally purpose your weapon at them to pressure them to desert the automobile, or bust open the window of a parked automobile with a well-placed elbow, however it was nonetheless a reasonably easy course of. That’s now not the case in GTA 6.
In accordance with IGN, the newest sport within the collection will introduce a tiered safety system for stealing vehicles. Identical to in actual life, pricier autos with enhanced know-how would require particular expertise and instruments to steal. Which means gamers should suppose extra deeply about which vehicles to spice up, and when. This time round, Jason and Lucia can have entry to a tool referred to as a “wank scanner,” which can show details about a automobile’s safety system and worth.
Whereas we don’t but know what number of several types of theft safety there can be in GTA 6, we do know that some autos can have digital keys, which means you’ll must clone these keys digitally. Different vehicles can have digital monitoring units that might alert regulation enforcement in case you drop beneath a sure velocity, which means you’ll must maintain the pedal to the metallic as a lot as potential. (I’m undecided if that is based mostly on real-world know-how, however incentivizing somebody who’s stolen a automobile to drive as quick as potential positive looks as if a horrible concept!)
What’s extra, not like in earlier GTA video games, in GTA 6, you’ll have the ability to promote any automobile you’ve stolen. This sport can have a fence system for stolen items that’s extra much like that of 2018’s Purple Useless Redemption 2. Who doesn’t admire a profitable side-hustle?
A very memorable scene from the Netflix preview noticed Lucia discovering an influencer within the trunk of the automobile she had simply stolen. Along with including depth to the essential components of theft, this opens up the prospect of extra eventualities the place our protagonists discover outlandish surprises in ill-gotten autos. Think about the chances! A giant briefcase full of medication! A backseat stuffed with birthday balloons! A snoozing stoner!
Please, Rockstar. Simply let me steal a automobile that has an indignant alligator in it in some unspecified time in the future in GTA 6. I’ll even forgive the sport’s sorely disappointing lack of a twerk button.
GTA 6 can be launched for PlayStation 5 and Xbox Sequence X on Nov. 19.