Lending further weight to reports that the next instalment in the franchise will broach multiple settings, GTA VI's working title is said to be 'Project Americas'. The Americas, as we all know, refers to the continents of North and South America, including the nations of the United States, Canada, Mexico, and numerous other Latin American states.
The working title certainly speaks to the scale of the next Grand Theft Auto, which is said to boast an open world even bigger than the one found in GTA V. Red Dead Redemption 2's map is already meant to be massive, and with GTA VI set to release at least three years after Rockstar's western sequel, logic would imply that the scale will increase.
If the title actually does take place outside of the US, or at least introduces settings outside of it, then it would make for a major breath of fresh air. Fans have been clamouring for an non-American setting for years now, and while speculation had pointed towards a potential Asian locale, it looks as though Rockstar are opting to explore South America instead.
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.
