GTA 6 Won't Be 'Too Specific About Any Particular Person, Event, or Movement,' Rockstar Says GTA Has Never Focused on 'National Politics'

Rockstar apparently isn’t interested in making a political statement in GTA 6, a game about love, passion, and the shrinking of the American dream. In the company’s defense, its reasoning is sound. Rockstar has never been scared to push the boat, with GTA 5 famously touching on the effectiveness of torture and government blacksites, and GTA 6 will likely be no different.

The line is drawn at political satire via real-world moments. If GTA 6 had created an NPC called Melon Husk who shoots rockets into space and is a bit weird, by the time it came out it wouldn’t have factored in all the horrible stuff that character’s real-life counterpart has done since. These games take a long time to make, and no one wants to be as dated as a Borderlands gag.

"If you go back to previous GTAs, there's never really been much focus on national politics," Rupert Humphries, senior vice president of narrative of Rockstar, told …