10 Things GTA 6 Can Learn From Red Dead Redemption 2

6. Strong. Female. Characters.

RDR2 is also a rarest of Rockstar titles to actually present the player with a strong, appealing female lead character.

Sure, Sadie may basically be a sidekick to Arthur Morgan, but she has her own clear, delineated and tragic back story, and there's always the feeling that she's out there living her life even when she's not riding with Arthur.

More to the point, she doesn't need to be bailed out by a man, she's extremely proficient with a gun and the game smartly doesn't contrive a romance between herself and Arthur.

While it's extremely unlikely that GTA 6 will give the series its first woman protagonist, there's no reason why the game can't follow RDR2's lead and actually serve up some strong, compelling women in the foreground.

GTA V was pretty flat in this regard, with most of the focal women being joke caricatures, but if RDR2 can give us a believably grizzled, tough femme fatale who can hold her own against men in the harsh landscape of the Old West, there's no way GTA 6 shouldn't follow suit.

Nobody's saying GTA 6 needs to be some flag-bearer for the #MeToo movement or anything, but at least including some interesting and nuanced women who aren't mere helpless objects of derision would certainly be welcome.