GTA Recap - The Complete Timeline (Watch Before GTA 6!)

[music] >> Places, names, and dates. The entire Grand Theft Auto series teems with recurring themes, locations, and characters. But, Rockstar's attitude to GTA continuities has always been very clear. There's three of them, and never the twain shall meet. Except when they do. So, here's what we're doing. We've built a new blended timeline for the GTA

universe that acknowledges every era of the storied franchise. >> For GTA just to remain relevant, it had to reinvent itself. If you don't do something new and fresh, you're going to become obsolete. >> And while Rockstar has always maintained an official hard separation between these timelines, they indulge a porous border between worlds when it suits

them, which has allowed various crossovers to occur that go way beyond cameos [music] and Easter eggs. The pre-release marketing for GTA 6 has been utterly littered with nods and references to Vice City, including the Vercetti estate, Phil Cassidy, and well, Vice City. So, we consider the events of the 2D and 3D universes authoritative

unless directly contradicted by the current HD universe games, if that makes sense. And that's a convenient rule we can use to include all the bits that fit and ignore the bits that don't. So, with that in mind, what does our unified timeline look like for Grand [music] Theft Auto? You could call it our Grand

Theft Unifying Theory. And it begins, like many great moments of culture, in the 1960s. Back then, organized crime felt a little two-dimensional, reliant on outmoded stereotypes, disturbingly British. >> It pleased yourself, ain't ya? And rightly so. >> And though the original 2D universe of Grand Theft Auto is now largely seen as a curious prototype of something that