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TechGamingGTA 6 isn’t “going woke”: it’ll be as amoral as everIf you think any GTA game is going to be right-on, I’ve got a Vice City bridge to sell youWhen you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works.
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(Image credit: Rockstar Games)
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There are two kinds of people in the world. There are people that read an article aboutGTA 6and think “ooh, that’s interesting, and probably quite good”. And there are the people that read the same article and immediately go online to complain about GTA “going woke” and, inevitably, “going broke” as a result. And over the last few days, the internet has been full of the second kind, with the odd US right-wing political candidate joining in too.
As if that wasn’t enough to enrage the online anti-woke warriors, GTA 6 will also feature a playable protagonist who isn’t a white guy. The hero (or anti-hero) this time will be a Latina woman.
You can imagine the response. To which I’d say: have any of these outraged people actuallyplayeda GTA game?
GTA is a horrible place, and that’s why we love it
The idea that GTA is going “woke” is laughable: GTA? The game that started with the criminals as the heroes and became ever more amoral and violent as it progressed? The whole point of GTA is to satirise and skewer the American Dream, to say that the world is so broken and awful that the only way to rise to the top is to be the baddest, most brutal, most ruthless human possible. Just because Rockstar isn’t going to punch down on marginalised groups doesn’t mean that GTA 6 is going to be nice. It’s still GTA, with all that entails.
And as for going broke, that’s laughable too. GTA 6 will sell billions of copies, and if a few people decide that they won’t buy it because it isn’t sufficiently racist or sexist, then they won’t even be a blip in the sales figures. And like the people who boycottedHorizon Forbidden Westbecause it featured – gasp! – a female protagonist, they’re the ones missing out. GTA 6 will be awful, disgusting, abhorrent and terrible in so many ways. It’s going to be great.
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