Grand Theft Auto 6 will star a female playable character, according to report

polygon.com:

New details on Grand Theft Auto 6 have seemingly been revealed by Bloomberg in a new report on developer Rockstar Games. The report is about the changing culture at the company and how it may impact the development of the studio’s upcoming project, which happens to be the next Grand Theft Auto game.

Tellingly, one of the game’s main protagonists will reportedly be a woman, a first for the series. According to Bloomberg, she will be a Latina who will star alongside someone else in a story influenced by Bonnie and Clyde.

Grand Theft Auto 6 will be set in a fictionalized version of Miami and the surrounding areas. While original plans for a game world that covered many locations throughout North and South America were scrapped, the world remains extremely large and includes more indoor locations than any previous GTA game, according to Bloomberg.

This change of location was specifically made to help keep the game’s ambition and scope a little more realistic, hopefully avoiding the kinds of development crunch thatRockstar titles used to be known for. Throughout the development of Grand Theft Auto 6, Rockstar has apparently been careful to avoid overtime in general, unlike on previous games.

However, the changes have come with the predictable side-effect of slowing down the game’s development. While it’s been in development since 2014, developers who talked to Bloomberg say that Grand Theft Auto 6 is likely still at least two years away and that the progress is extremely slow, though it’s worth noting that the pandemic has likely contributed to these delays as well as Rockstar’s new, heathier policies.

But development work on Grand Theft Auto 6 won’t stop when the game is released, either. While the initial game world will