GTA 5 Leak Reveals The Single-Participant DLC That May Have Been

On Christmas Day, a giant GTA 5 leak revealed that Rockstar Video games had some single-player DLC deliberate for the open-world crime sim. Although none of them had been launched, what was uncovered by on-line sleuths is attention-grabbing all the identical.

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In accordance with an Insider Gaming report, Rockstar apparently scrapped eight deliberate GTA 5 expansions. This was revealed by the publishing of the game’s full source code around Christmas, which accommodates references to the unreleased DLC in addition to the scripting for the sport to run. Right here’s the total listing of canceled expansions referenced within the leak:

• “SP Assassination Pack”
• “SP Manhunt Pack”
• “SP Norman Pack”
• “Agent Trevor”
• “Relationship Pack”
• “Enterprise Pack”
• “Prologue DLC”
• “LibertyV DLC”

It’s tough to determine precisely what each means, although there’s lots to take a position about. Most notably, GTA 5 DLC may’ve allow us to play as Trevor as he performs the responsibility of some kind of agent. The “Relationship Pack” may need launched courting and even marriage to Los Santos. Maybe Rockstar deliberate to take journey again to GTA IV’s Liberty Metropolis for who-knows-what shenanigans. There’s additionally the Prologue, which in all probability units up the principle sport’s occasions, and the “Manhunt Pack,” which could possibly be a callback to Rockstar Video games’ 2003 stealth-action sport of the identical identify. Your guess is nearly as good as mine.

What Stopped Rockstar From Dropping GTA 5 DLC?

Whereas Rockstar clearly had plans for single-player DLC, it doubtless by no means produced these expansions because of the runaway success of GTA On-line. It’s generated almost half a billion {dollars} per 12 months since launch, so it made sense for Rockstar Video games to give attention to this money-making machine.

Nonetheless, in 2017, the studio advised Recreation Informer that different elements influenced the choice to skip GTA 5 DLC. Director of design Imran Sarwar mentioned that the next-gen variations of GTA 5 took some time to get proper, GTA On-line hogged assets, and Pink Lifeless Redemption 2 was across the nook.

“The mixture of those three elements means for [GTA 5], we didn’t really feel single-player expansions had been both potential or mandatory, however we might effectively do them for future initiatives,” Sarwar mentioned. “At Rockstar, we’ll at all times have bandwidth points as a result of we’re perfectionists and to make enormous advanced video games takes a number of time and assets. Not every thing is at all times potential, however we nonetheless love single-player open-world video games greater than something. I don’t assume you can make a sport like GTA 5 in case you didn’t like single-player video games and making an attempt to develop their potentialities!”

Kotaku has reached out to Rockstar Video games for remark.

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It’s price noting that Pink Lifeless Redemption 2, which got here out in October 2018, hasn’t obtained any single-player DLC. Perhaps that may change as Rockstar Video games shifts all of its focus and assets to GTA 6, which launches someday in 2025.