GTA 6 Project Americas: Everything You Need To Know
10. It'll Be Set In Multiple Time Periods
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By far one of the most exciting rumours regarding the new GTA is that it'll be set across a period of at least a decade, following our protagonist from the 1970s through to the 1980s, which of course is where the events of the original Vice City took place.
Taking a more historical approach has paid dividends for Rockstar in the past, and given the two most recent games were both set in the modern day, it makes sense that the studio would opt for something different this time around.
The same rumour also states that the game won't shy away from the political backdrop of each decade's milieu, citing both the AIDS Epidemic and what could potentially be the Mariel boatlift (the original rumour mentions an "immigration crisis"), which saw thousands of Cubans emigrate from Castro's regime to the US in 1980.
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.
