‘Grand Theft Auto’ set for blockbuster return after 13 years.
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Fans of the violent “Grand Theft Auto” video game franchise are just two weeks away from getting their hands on the latest edition, which has taken almost a decade to make and has become the most expensive title in history.
The franchise allows players to act out gangster fantasies — shooting up bars, crashing cars — in fictional renderings of US cities where the soundtrack piped through in-game radio is almost as important as the cutting-edge visuals.
GTA VI, which comes 13 years after its predecessor, may break sales records when it lands on November 19 thanks in part to a monumental marketing campaign that kicked off in late 2023 with the first official trailer. “It is going to be the biggest entertainment launch of all time,” Chris Dring of The Game Business outlet told AFP. The previous edition, GTA V, is still the second-biggest selling game ever — it took just three days to rack up $1 billion in sales, two days less than the movie “Avengers: Endgame”. The budget of GTA VI has reportedly ballooned to over $1 billion — far higher than any other game or film — and projections have it on track to make several billion in its first week, which would smash all records for any cultural product.
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