Various rumours online have also pointed toward the possibility of players being given the option to work as a police officer, though it's still to be determined whether or not they'd be working undercover or in the green of Vice City's men and women in uniform.
In any case, it's a surefire way of making the next title feel all that more compelling. The feature has been requested by fans for almost every instalment in the franchise, and with plenty of stories in cinema and elsewhere having juxtaposed between cops and criminals all the time (Heat a notable example), it's a premise that would feel right at home in the next GTA.
And though fans might be wary of the prospect of the next title divesting from the series' tenets, it's important to remember that this would be familiar territory for Rockstar. The studio has dealt with law enforcement in both Red Dead Redemption and in Team Bondi's L.A. Noire, and though the whole point of GTA is to break the law rather than enforce it, subverting the genre could make for a refreshing change.
WhatCulture's very own resident movie guy, Ewan has been working in the content creation biz for over 10 years now, having started as a freelance contributor to WhatCulture Gaming all the way back in 2015. After graduating with a First-Class Honours in History from Northumbria University in 2017 (where he won a prize for a totally killer dissertation on the Watergate years), Ewan took on the role of Comics Editor at WhatCulture and quickly developed WhatCulture Comics into one of the biggest superhero-focused channels on YouTube. He followed this with a brief hiatus at Screen Rant in 2021, where he worked across the Gaming and Film sections as a writer and editor, before returning to WhatCulture as a Senior Content Producer / Presenter in 2023. He started his own podcast, We Love Dad Movies, in 2022, and has contributed several written pieces to the Eisner-nominated comics website Shelfdust as well.
In his current role, Ewan incorporates his love of cinema, comic books, and history into written pieces and video essays for WhatCulture's Film & TV channel, as well as WhatCulture Gaming and WhatCulture Horror, with a particular focus on nineties-era Dad Movies, old school Westerns, and Golden Age Hollywood Noir. John Carpenter is his fave, and he thinks Batman Beyond should never have been cancelled. If that's your vibe, you'll probably like his stuff.
