Ned Luke, the actor behind Grand Theft Auto 5‘s Michael De Santa, stated individuals who assume Grand Theft Auto 6 appears to be like an excessive amount of like GTA 5 are “out of their minds.”
Luke has remained an necessary determine within the GTA group since he first appeared as one in every of three playable skilled criminals within the 2013 installment. Now that he and the remainder of the world have gotten a better have a look at what Rockstar Games is cooking up with GTA 6, he is stepped in to defend it from the naysayers.
One of many many, many speaking factors to emerge within the wake of final week’s GTA 6: Prolonged Look was that enjoying as protagonists Jason and Lucia regarded somewhat too much like the sort of gameplay one may anticipate from GTA 5. Whereas most appear to imagine Rockstar has correctly used the 13 years since that recreation’s launch, it hasn’t stopped skepticism from creeping in.
Luke would not appear to be included within the new recreation’s forged, however he nonetheless made certain to refute a few of the criticisms popping up on-line whereas collaborating with YouTube channels Partychat and House of Highlights. When requested for his ideas about those that imagine there are too many similarities between GTA 5 and GTA 6, he made his stance clear.
“This appears to be like nothing like Grand Theft Auto 5,” he stated. “I believe they’re out of their minds.”
“I am going to let you know one factor: I by no means regarded that good,” he added, pointing to a picture of Jason on his display.”
Rockstar’s GTA 6 prolonged look formally revealed footage of a number of recent options, together with tons of recent facet actions, story missions, a reworked Needed system, and extra. For Luke, the most effective examples of how Rockstar has reimagined Grand Theft Auto might be seen in how its many characters transfer.
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“Watch the best way the folks transfer,” he continued. “The walks are precise human walks. We nonetheless had somewhat little bit of that mechanical factor going with our walks and the best way we might stand. For me, I felt like my legs have been by no means absolutely straight. They at all times had this little bend in them.”
He continued: “The know-how has grown by leaps and bounds, ? What would make you assume it should be higher than these video games? It is no diss to these video games. It is like between [GTA 5] and GTA 4. Our graphics blew GTA 4 away. They weren’t even shut.”
Luke then referred to as consideration to the excessive degree of element within the planes, helicopters, and automobile explosions proven via the prolonged look. He even went so far as to handle the feedback saying GTA 6 did not look a lot better than 2018’s Pink Useless Redemption 2, saying, “Sorry, guys, you are incorrect. The graphics right here beat Pink Useless.”
The actor behind GTA’s Michael has stayed in contact with Rockstar followers within the years since his debut and has been identified to talk his thoughts. In 2024, for instance, he praised Lucia’s introduction in GTA 6 as “big.”
“Lucia’s laborious, man,” he stated on the time. “Within the trailer, she regarded good. You get a whole lot of these clowns out right here going, ‘Rockstar’s going woke, they’re caving into the wokeness of the world,'” Luke stated. “To start with, there’s been different feminine protagonists prior to now, however not in one thing as big as this.”
GTA 6 is scheduled to come back to PlayStation 5 and Xbox Sequence X/S November 19, 2026. Whereas its prolonged look on Netflix gave followers so much to chew on, Rockstar nonetheless has lots extra to point out between every now and then. Whereas we wait, you possibly can try all of IGN’s unique protection, together with our preview and interview. There’s additionally our listing of 99 particulars we caught through the prolonged look and the 69 particulars we noticed at Rockstar HQ.
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