GTA 6 won't be letting up on the satire: 'If you are going to put all this effort into creating a version of today's world, it has to be more over the top, more insane, more in your face'

The promotional blitz for Grand Theft Auto 6 continues rolling out, with the latest example being a cover feature in Love, a fashion magazine that only publishes two issues a year. I guess you've got to reach the people who don't know what the Miami Heat is somehow.

One of the things the feature focuses on is the satirical side of Grand Theft Auto, mentioning that in GTA 6, alongside radio talk shows and ads, you might overhear a robovoiced phonecall for a political campaign. The world will be full of real-world details, but amplified.

"It needs to wash over you when you're sprinting down the busiest street in the city, hearing snatches of a hundred different conversations as you go," according to James Horton, whose job title is writing director: open world. "If you shift your focus onto something new, it's going to fill the frame, and it's going to push back."

"If you are going to put all …