That doesn’t mean it’s definitely going to be bad but for me there’s nothing guaranteed about it anymore. An open world game the size of GTA must be a nightmare to organise and Rockstar has lost a lot of talented people from GTA 5 and from Red Dead Redemption 2. This raises big questions about not just the quality of writing, and the amount of satire, but also whether it has the leadership to make something innovative and coherent. Not just the head writer but the producer that is credited with making a success of the franchise in the first place. I think it’s very reasonable to be concerned about what GTA 6 is going to be like, now that so many important staff have left. It was okay, while I played it, in part because it was so short, but even just a few hours afterwards it’s obvious it’s left no impression whatsoever. I mean, it’s not a bad game but if I was going to do a re-review I’d struggle to give it more than a 5/10.

You can see that in the way you go through the different levels, where it’s shooting or stealth and then those mechanics never come up again. The whole thing just seems a weird collection of random ideas, none of which fit together. There’s no doubting that the virtual cat in the game is cute, and it’s a fun novelty to be playing as one, but the post-apocalyptic cyberpunk setting has nothing to do with anything and neither does the fact that all the people are robots.

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