Ned Luke, the actor behind Grand Theft Auto 5’s Michael De Santa, mentioned 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 essential determine within the GTA group since he first appeared as one among three playable skilled criminals within the 2013 installment. Now that he and the remainder of the world have gotten a better take a look at what Rockstar Video 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 a little bit too just like the sort of gameplay one might count on from GTA 5. Whereas most appear to imagine Rockstar has properly used the 13 years since that recreation’s launch, it hasn’t stopped skepticism from creeping in.
Luke does not appear to be included within the new recreation’s forged, however he nonetheless made positive to refute among the criticisms popping up on-line whereas collaborating with YouTube channels Partychat and Home 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 mentioned. “I believe they’re out of their minds.”
“I will 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 aspect actions, story missions, a reworked Wished system, and extra. For Luke, probably the greatest examples of how Rockstar has reimagined Grand Theft Auto could 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 a little bit 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 totally straight. They all the time had this little bend in them.”
He continued: “The know-how has grown by leaps and bounds, you understand? 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 stage of element within the planes, helicopters, and automotive explosions proven by means of the prolonged look. He even went so far as to handle the feedback saying GTA 6 did not look significantly better than 2018’s Crimson Useless Redemption 2, saying, “Sorry, guys, you are fallacious. The graphics right here beat Crimson Useless.”
The actor behind GTA’s Michael has stayed in contact with Rockstar followers within the years since his debut and has been recognized to talk his thoughts. In 2024, for instance, he praised Lucia’s introduction in GTA 6 as “enormous.”
“Lucia’s laborious, man,” he mentioned on the time. “Within the trailer, she regarded good. You get loads of these clowns out right here going, ‘Rockstar’s going woke, they’re caving into the wokeness of the world,'” Luke mentioned. “Initially, there’s been different feminine protagonists prior to now, however not in one thing as enormous as this.”
GTA 6 is scheduled to return to PlayStation 5 and Xbox Collection X/S November 19, 2026. Whereas its prolonged look on Netflix gave followers so much to chew on, Rockstar nonetheless has a lot extra to point out between every now and then. Whereas we wait, you may take a look at all of IGN’s unique protection, together with our preview and interview. There’s additionally our record of 99 particulars we caught in the course of the prolonged look and the 69 particulars we noticed at Rockstar HQ.
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