A month and a half before the release of GTA 6: ratings, hurricanes and Rockstar’s words about scale

Grand Theft Auto VI has already reached that stage of anticipation when the scale of the game is not indicated by trailers, but by details: an M rating from the ESRB, local rainfall over certain areas of Leonidas, hurricanes and Rockstar’s decision not to try to cram every Florida landmark into the map.

There is about a month and a half left before the release on November 19th.In recent days, enough specifics have accumulated to look not at just another rumor, but at what kind of world Rockstar is putting together from these details.

Age rating and adult scenes

The ESRB has rated the game M for Mature.Descriptions include blood and gore, intense violence, mature humor, nudity, strong language, explicit sexual content, and drug and alcohol use.In Europe, the game received a PEGI 18 rating with notes about drugs, sexual content, extreme violence and nudity.

On the New Zealand and Australian PlayStation Store, sex scenes are mentioned in the rating description.It is still unclear whether there will be more of them in GTA 6 than in Grand Theft Auto V: in the fifth part there were also scenes, but the wording of the rating was shorter.A more detailed description from the ESRB, which usually reveals specific plot points, has not yet been published.

Weather that lives its own life

Rockstar Vice President of Lighting and Rendering Owen Shepard told Game Informer that the studio has completely redesigned the weather system: it is now more local and stable.Dynamic clouds move across the map, so it may be raining in one part of the world while the sun is shining in another.The game promises everything from the clear skies of a Miami winter to the thunderclouds with occasional lightning that are visible almost every day in Florida during the summer and fall.Separately, the developers mention hurricanes and rainbows.

Scale without casualties

Rockstar executive Aaron Garbutt said in an interview that the studio did not choose between scale and detail.Usually the developer sacrifices either one or the other, or the degree of interaction, but in this project everything was done differently.According to him, everything in the game is enhanced at once: detail, scope, breadth, scale, interaction and density of the world.

Without Disney World and SeaWorld

Rockstar Senior Vice President of Environment Design Paul McPherson said that the team selects the most diverse set of cities, landscapes and attractions for Leonida, but is forced to be selective.Therefore, parodies of Disney World, SeaWorld and Universal Studios may not be in the game, but everything that is there should convey the full atmosphere of Florida.

Editions and pre-order

The game is coming to PS5, PS5 Pro and Xbox Series X|S.There is no version for PlayStation 4, and the game itself is designed for one player.The Standard Edition includes the Vintage Vice City Pack, a month of GTA+ and a seven-day preload.There is also an Ultimate Edition, where an improved edition is added to the basic set.

A month of GTA+ is given for pre-ordering the digital version on the PlayStation Store before November 20.Russia is not on the list of countries where this offer is valid, and Sony does not name the price for the Russian region.