Rockstar apparently isn’t interested in making a political statement in GTA 6, a game about love, passion, and the shrinking of the American dream. In the company’s defense, its reasoning is sound. Rockstar has never been scared to push the boat, with GTA 5 famously touching on the effectiveness of torture and government blacksites, and GTA 6 will likely be no different.
The line is drawn at political satire via real-world moments. If GTA 6 had created an NPC called Melon Husk who shoots rockets into space and is a bit weird, by the time it came out it wouldn’t have factored in all the horrible stuff that character’s real-life counterpart has done since. These games take a long time to make, and no one wants to be as dated as a Borderlands gag.
"If you go back to previous GTAs, there's never really been much focus on national politics," Rupert Humphries, senior vice president of narrative of Rockstar, told Love Magazine. "The rise of Homeland Security and the Patriot Act were pretty central to GTA 4, but that was mainly because post-9/11 New York was a real frontline for those issues.
“Because we are trying to make games that feel very specific to the moment they are released, but at the same time, not reflective of the exact world we live in, we don't want to be too specific about any particular person, event, movement or anything like that.”
Instead, the focus is on capturing the essence of Florida — all the wild Florida men and women, cops and gangbangers the developer met on its GTA 6 research trips .
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