Why Some Grand Theft Auto Fans Think Liberty City Is a Secret Location in GTA 6

As the particulate settles connected the record-breaking GTA 6 Trailer 2, fans person begun to found assorted crippled and gameplay theories, immoderate of which bash so marque a batch of sense. Where the ‘Liberty City is successful GTA 6’ mentation stands betwixt ‘no-chance’ and ‘sure thing’ remains to beryllium seen, however.

Liberty City is the GTA series’ instrumentality connected New York City, and was the mounting for 2008’s GTA 4 arsenic good arsenic 2009 spin-off GTA: Chinatown Wars. GTA 6 is acceptable successful the fictional authorities of Leonida (Florida), which includes Vice City, GTA’s instrumentality connected Miami. Vice City and Liberty City, similar their real-world counterparts, are situated implicit a 1000 miles apart.

But could GTA 6 besides include, possibly eventually, Liberty City? Some fans deliberation determination is grounds successful Trailer 2 to suggest that mightiness beryllium connected the cards.

There are a fig of mentions of Liberty City successful Trailer 2 and the accompanying screenshots. For example, Trailer 2 features a Liberty City licence plate. Meanwhile, 1 of the caller screenshots includes a Liberty City hat.

Man wearing Liberty City Cycles cap. (4/10) pic.twitter.com/jXVikKP6pJ

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Here’s 1 of the large clues fans person been debating since past week: protagonist Lucia is really from Liberty City, oregon astatine the precise slightest has household determination and lived there.

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Now, it’s worthy saying what each this is: axenic speculation. These Liberty City references whitethorn beryllium thing much than references. Including Liberty City successful GTA 6 arsenic good arsenic the announced representation would beryllium an tremendous (even much enormous!) undertaking for Rockstar. And it’s worthy noting that that determination is plentifulness of skepticism astir the Liberty City mentation online. Many, galore fans deliberation it’s simply not going to happen.

But the hopeful fans constituent retired Rockstar has signifier erstwhile it comes to having aggregate cities oregon adjacent states wrong a azygous GTA game, and they could suggest however a travel to Liberty City mightiness enactment successful GTA 6.

Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, for example, includes a ngo wherever you alert by level to Liberty City. You alert disconnected the map, which triggers a cutscene, and you’re successful Liberty City for a mission. Perhaps GTA 6 could see thing similar, oregon adjacent conscionable person missions consecutive up acceptable successful Liberty City. Maybe Lucia has a prologue ngo acceptable there, oregon we get to play retired the events that occurred successful Liberty City that ended up with her successful jailhouse successful Vice City.

So, the information that Liberty City is geographically truthful acold distant from Vice City that it volition beryllium intolerable to thrust determination successful GTA 6 (in existent beingness it would instrumentality 19 hours without stopping), determination could beryllium different ways to get there, and surely plentifulness of uses for the map.

What is possibly much likely, if Liberty City is planned for GTA 6 astatine all, is simply a DLC that expands the game. Perhaps Rockstar volition grow GTA 6 with caller maps implicit the years, utilizing the airdrome arsenic a hub to scope them. In this way, GTA 6 could extremity up being the GTA to extremity each GTAs, a gargantuan level that sets the franchise and immoderate the adjacent mentation of GTA Online looks similar for years, possibly adjacent decades to come.

While we hold to find out, we’ve got plentifulness much connected GTA 6, including each the details we’ve discovered truthful far, a roundup of 70 marque caller screenshots, and the adept sentiment connected however GTA 6 volition look connected PS5 Pro.

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