GTA 6 Wishlist: Six Features We Hope to See, from Flexible Missions to a Deeper Story

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Grand Theft Auto 6 comes out later this year, but there's little to hold on to in terms of official details as Rockstar Games has maintained complete silence about the game since the trailer reveal in December 2023. With its fast-approaching Fall 2025 release window, however, the developer is likely to share more about the game in the coming months. The first trailer shed light on one of GTA 6's two protagonists, confirmed the game's Florida-inspired Vice City setting and showed players what they could expect when it launches on PS5 and Xbox Series S/X.

While the trailer suggested some of the improvements coming to GTA 6, there's, however, a lot that players would like to see in the game when it's finally out in the wild. Considering what we saw in Grand Theft Auto 5 and Rockstar's improvements to open world interaction in Red Dead Redemption 2, GTA 6 could surpass the sky-high expectations and deliver the standout game of the generation. Here are some of the improvements we would like to see in Grand Theft Auto 6.

GTA 5 excels on so many levels that it becomes easy to forgive its middling, muddled story. There's an interesting premise with three distinct playable characters, but Rockstar fails to build it into an interesting, weaving narrative with satisfying arcs for each protagonist. The game banks on its big set-piece missions to deliver on the spectacle — and they do — but the story inevitably takes a back seat.

That was not the case with Red Dead Redemption 2. The Western action-adventure title had plenty of blockbuster moments, but the story of Arthur Morgan and his desperate attempts to keep the Dutch van der Linde gang afloat while scripting his own personal redemption is perhaps yet to be bested in triple-A video games. Red Dead Redemption 2 has some of the most beautiful game environments in the medium; it has some of the best music written for video games; it has one of the best and most interactive open worlds ever crafted for a video game; but the