Rockstar Is Using One Of Its Old Tricks To Create GTA 6 TV Shows

On Thursday, after years of ready, rumors, and leaks, Rockstar Video games lastly confirmed everybody our first take a look at gameplay of Grand Theft Auto 6, its upcoming open-world sequel that’s set to be one of many greatest video games in historical past. And through that prolonged look, Rockstar included a industrial for an Arby’s parody. Humorous, positive. However when you’ve performed a number of Crimson Useless Redemption II, properly, you in all probability received some deja vu. That’s as a result of Rockstar used RDR 2 to assist make that advert.

Whereas watching yesterday’s practically 30-minute gameplay reveal of GTA 6, I noticed one thing odd throughout a Chacey’s commercial for a comically massive sandwich made out of assorted animals, together with deer, warthogs, and rabbits. Right here’s the advert in case you haven’t seen it or need your reminiscence refreshed:

“Wait a minute… I acknowledge these deer! I do know these warthog fashions!” I believed to myself whereas watching that advert. I questioned if Rockstar Video games had used Crimson Useless Redemption 2 to create the quick industrial. And it didn’t take lengthy for followers to reply my query: Yup, Rockstar used RDR 2 in that industrial. In fact, someone on Reddit actually found the specific location in Rockstar’s open-world cowboy simulator the place the studio recorded the advert.

This isn’t the primary time Rockstar has used one in all its previous video games to create TV reveals, motion pictures, and adverts in its different video games. In actual fact, it’s been doing this since GTA IV. In that sport, launched in 2008, you may watch TV reveals, and when you look rigorously, you’ll spot GTA San Andreas in some adverts and packages, including shots of Las Venturas during a poker tournament. You can even catch a glimpse of Bullworth Academy from Bully in GTA IV as well.

In Grand Theft Auto 5, you may watch a film in theaters that’s supposed to spoof arthouse flicks. And within the black-and-white movie, you may spot photographs recorded in Crimson Useless Redemption in addition to a clip that includes the Statue of Happiness’ giant heart, an Easter egg hidden in GTA IV. 

Evidently, I’m not stunned Rockstar has as soon as once more relied on this technique to assist create TV reveals and adverts in GTA 6. It makes a number of sense. As an alternative of getting to create an entire wilderness and mannequin and animate tons of animals for one quick advert, Rockstar simply movies it in a modified model of RDR 2. It additionally lets them create TV content material and films in completed video games whereas the newer sport remains to be being developed. And it additionally lets Rockstar drop little Easter eggs and connections to its different video games inside its newer video games for tremendous followers and sickos, like me, to identify and go, “Oh hey!”

I believe that when GTA 6 arrives in November on PS5 and Xbox, there shall be different Rockstar-developed video games making cameo appearances on the TV, like GTA V’s Los Santos or possibly even some zombie motion from Crimson Useless’s Undead Nightmare DLC. I can’t wait to look at TV in GTA 6, which is a bizarre factor to confess, however right here we’re.