On Thursday, after years of ready, rumors, and leaks, Rockstar Video games lastly confirmed everybody our first have a look at gameplay of Grand Theft Auto 6, its upcoming open-world sequel that’s set to be one of many greatest video games in historical past. And through that prolonged look, Rockstar included a industrial for an Arby’s parody. Humorous, positive. However in the event you’ve performed a whole lot of Pink Lifeless Redemption II, effectively, you in all probability received some deja vu. That’s as a result of Rockstar used RDR 2 to assist make that advert.
Whereas watching yesterday’s almost 30-minute gameplay reveal of GTA 6, I noticed one thing odd throughout a Chacey’s industrial for a comically massive sandwich made out of varied animals, together with deer, warthogs, and rabbits. Right here’s the advert in case you haven’t seen it or need your reminiscence refreshed:
“Wait a minute… I acknowledge these deer! I do know these warthog fashions!” I believed to myself whereas watching that advert. I puzzled if Rockstar Video games had used Pink Lifeless Redemption 2 to create the quick industrial. And it didn’t take lengthy for followers to reply my query: Yup, Rockstar used RDR 2 in that industrial. The truth is, somebody on Reddit really discovered the precise location in Rockstar’s open-world cowboy simulator the place the studio recorded the advert.
This isn’t the primary time Rockstar has used certainly one of its outdated video games to create TV reveals, films, and adverts in its different video games. The truth is, it’s been doing this since GTA IV. In that recreation, launched in 2008, you may watch TV reveals, and in the event you look rigorously, you’ll spot GTA San Andreas in some adverts and packages, together with pictures of Las Venturas throughout a poker match. You may also catch a glimpse of Bullworth Academy from Bully in GTA IV as effectively.
In Grand Theft Auto 5, you may watch a film in theaters that’s meant to spoof arthouse flicks. And within the black-and-white movie, you may spot pictures recorded in Pink Lifeless Redemption in addition to a clip that includes the Statue of Happiness’ big coronary heart, an Easter egg hidden in GTA IV.
For sure, I’m not stunned Rockstar has as soon as once more relied on this technique to assist create TV reveals and adverts in GTA 6. It makes a whole lot of sense. As an alternative of getting to create an entire wilderness and mannequin and animate tons of animals for one quick advert, Rockstar simply movies it in a modified model of RDR 2. It additionally lets them create TV content material and films in completed video games whereas the newer recreation continues to be being developed. And it additionally lets Rockstar drop little Easter eggs and connections to its different video games inside its newer video games for tremendous followers and sickos, like me, to identify and go, “Oh hey!”
I think that when GTA 6 arrives in November on PS5 and Xbox, there might be different Rockstar-developed video games making cameo appearances on the TV, like GTA V’s Los Santos or possibly even some zombie motion from Pink Lifeless’s Undead Nightmare DLC. I can’t wait to look at TV in GTA 6, which is a bizarre factor to confess, however right here we’re.
