On Christmas Day, a giant GTA 5 leak revealed that Rockstar Video games had some single-player DLC deliberate for the open-world crime sim. Although none of them had been launched, what was uncovered by on-line sleuths is fascinating all the identical.
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In keeping with an Insider Gaming report, Rockstar apparently scrapped eight deliberate GTA 5 expansions. This was revealed by the publishing of the game’s full source code around Christmas, which incorporates references to the unreleased DLC in addition to the scripting for the sport to run. Right here’s the total checklist of canceled expansions referenced within the leak:
- “SP Assassination Pack”
- “SP Manhunt Pack”
- “SP Norman Pack”
- “Agent Trevor”
- “Relationship Pack”
- “Enterprise Pack”
- “Prologue DLC”
- “LibertyV DLC”
It’s troublesome to determine precisely what every one means, although there’s loads to take a position about. Most notably, GTA 5 DLC would possibly’ve allow us to play as Trevor as he performs the obligation of some kind of agent. The “Relationship Pack” might need launched courting and even marriage to Los Santos. Maybe Rockstar deliberate to take journey again to GTA IV’s Liberty Metropolis for who-knows-what shenanigans. There’s additionally the Prologue, which most likely units up the principle recreation’s occasions, and the “Manhunt Pack,” which could possibly be a callback to Rockstar Video games’ 2003 stealth-action recreation of the identical title. Your guess is pretty much as good as mine.
What Stopped Rockstar From Dropping GTA 5 DLC?
Whereas Rockstar clearly had plans for single-player DLC, it doubtless by no means produced these expansions as a result of runaway success of GTA On-line. It’s generated almost half a billion {dollars} per yr since launch, so it made sense for Rockstar Video games to concentrate on this money-making machine.
Nevertheless, in 2017, the studio instructed Recreation Informer that different components influenced the choice to skip GTA 5 DLC. Director of design Imran Sarwar stated that the next-gen variations of GTA 5 took some time to get proper, GTA On-line hogged assets, and Pink Lifeless Redemption 2 was across the nook.
“The mixture of those three components means for [GTA 5], we didn’t really feel single-player expansions had been both attainable or obligatory, however we might effectively do them for future tasks,” Sarwar stated. “At Rockstar, we’ll at all times have bandwidth points as a result of we’re perfectionists and to make big complicated video games takes loads of time and assets. Not every part is at all times attainable, however we nonetheless love single-player open-world video games greater than something. I don’t assume you can make a recreation like GTA 5 in case you didn’t like single-player video games and making an attempt to increase their prospects!”
Kotaku has reached out to Rockstar Video games for remark.
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It’s price noting that Pink Lifeless Redemption 2, which got here out in October 2018, hasn’t acquired any single-player DLC. Perhaps that can change as Rockstar Video games shifts all of its focus and assets to GTA 6, which launches someday in 2025.