A mod devoted to recreating Liberty City inside Grand Theft Auto 5, as a mod, has shut down.
Insider-Gaming reviews that the Liberty City Preservation Challenge, a mod meant to recreate the setting of GTA 4 as a mod for GTA 5, has been taken down on the request of Rockstar Games. In a press release on Discord, consumer nkjellman mentioned “As a result of surprising consideration that our challenge acquired and after talking with Rockstar Games, we have determined to take down the Liberty City Preservation Challenge.”
There is a new mod on the block for GTAV “Liberty City Preservation Challenge”, I attempted out the mod. It is AMAZING, it has a working subway community, the police and ambient visitors are trustworthy and it is so polished.
Superb work to the staff of devs who labored on this! pic.twitter.com/aLLtOMvwsc
— Ben (@videotechuk_) December 31, 2024
Rockstar is well-known for asking modders to take down numerous mods like this AI-powered GTA 5 story mode mod, or a VR mod for Pink Lifeless Redemption 2. The Liberty City Preservation Challenge take down can be not with out direct precedent as Rockstar issued a take-down for a mod that attempted to recreate Grand Theft Auto Vice City inside GTA 5.
One fascinating growth is that whereas Rockstar is considered in terms of taking down mods, in addition they generally hire those very modders to work at Rockstar Games. And a few mods, just like the Vice City mod, had been taken down just for Rockstar themselves to announce remasters of these very video games.
This is not to say Rockstar is engaged on a GTA 4 remaster, by any means, however there is definitely precedent. Nonetheless it could be years away earlier than we get a solution as we all know Rockstar is at the moment arduous at work attempting to prepared the highly-anticipated Grand Theft Auto 6 for a 2025 launch.
Matt Kim is IGN’s Senior Options Editor.