NEW GTA 6 WORLD & DEVELOPMENT DETAILS:
- Rockstar researched Miami, surrounding towns and the Florida Keys, travelling all the way down to Key West
- Developers spent time with locals, police officers and gang members to experience sides of Florida tourists would rarely see
- Some of the stories Rockstar heard during its research were described as “terrifying”
- Aaron Garbut and GTA 6 art directors spent a day flying over Miami and the Everglades by helicopter, studying everything from mangrove inlets to downtown and the beach
- Miami’s extremes of wealth, poverty, excess, craziness and hustle directly influenced the creation of Leonida
- GTA 6 has a dedicated production team for pedestrian dialogue, with hundreds of different voices used to build the world
- Rockstar wants Vice City and Leonida to feel like places players can spend hundreds of hours in, with extensive detail even in smaller areas
- Character artists studied regional clothing, styling, cosmetics and hairstyles to authentically represent people across different parts of Leonida
(Via LOVE Magazine)