Don’t mind the 12-year wait — ex Rockstar dev suggests GTA 6 production really started in 2018

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We've all been waiting on GTA 6 for over a decade now, with 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:GTA 5 being just under 12 years old now (and it will be almost 13 by the time the game releases thanks to the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:new delay). However, despite how good the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:new GTA 6 trailer looks, being packed full of impressive visual details like realistic 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:beer bottles and 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:cloth animations, the game hasn't been in active development for thaღt whole time.

Environment artist David O'Reilly – who worked at Rockstar during the development of GTA 5, Red Dead Redemption 2, and GTA 6 before leaving in 2023 – has posted a video on his YouTube channel, Game Worlᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ♋⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚd Art, reacting to the new GTA reveals. However, during the start of the video "Ex-Rockstar Artist Reacts to GTA6 Trailer 2 Screenshots" he said, "I worked on GTA 6 from 2018 to 2023, [I] went on to it after we wrapped on RDR2." Considering pulled together to work on the Red Dead Redemption sequel, it's pretty much a confirmation that GTA 6 didn't actually go into full development until 2018.

That being said, that doesn't mean nothing was being done with the game until then; preliminary work on Red Dead Redemption 2 was being done before GTA 5 was released. It's safe to assume that it's probably the same case for GTA 6 – with pre-production 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:reportedly starting in 2014. However, this gives us a good idea of whe𒀰n things really got p💝ut into motion.

Even though he only left a couple of years ago, O'Reilly was still wowed by the trailer, saying, "everything looks so different than when I last saw it" 🔯before adding, "I think it's going to be pretty indicative of what we're going to see on the release."

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