GTA 5's Michael reckons GTA 6's tone looks like it's hitting a blend of the fourth and fifth games in Rockstar's series.
Speaking to IGN in an interview, Ned Luke, the voice and face of Michael de Santa in GTA 5, sounded off on GTA 6. "I've said this before - from an acting standpoint, not just a protagonist, just top to bottom, I think that our game was if not the best, one of the best acted game in video game history," Luke said. No pressure in following that up, GTA 6.
"There's so much comedy. Comedy is fucking hard man. Drama's not hard to do, at least for me from an acting standpoint. Comedy's hard," the actor continued. "I think that this thing, from the trailer, it looks like it's going to be a little heavier than ours was. It looks like all the comedy and all the weirdness is going to be on the outside, and all those ancillary characters. It had a little heavier vibe, it felt to me between us and [GTA] 4, almost. Because 4 was really dark."
GTA 5 certainly had its comedic moments, whether it was Michael accidentally destroying the wrong hillside mansion in a fit of rage, or Trevor doing basically anything, including but not limited to murder and arson. Luke isn't saying that GTA 6 will be entirely devoid of comedy, though, just that it'll potentially be limited to the goings on outside the main plot of the game.
The actor also commented on Lucia in the new Rockstar game. "Lucia's hard, man. In the trailer, she looked good. You get a lot of these clowns out here going 'Rockstar's going woke, they're caving in to the wokeness of the world'. First of all, there's been other female protagonists in the past, but obviously not in something as huge as this," the actor said. It's true: the original GTA had a slew of
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