Grand Theft Auto VI (2022 Video Game)

Grand Theft Auto VI, also referred to as Grand Theft Auto 6 or Grand Theft Auto Six, is an upcoming 2022 video game developed by Rockstar North and published by Rockstar Games. The game releases on September 23, 2022 for Xbox 720 and Playstation 5 and on November 15, 2022; for the PC. It is the fourth game in Rockstar's HD universe which previously included of Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars, Grand Theft Auto IV, and the highly successful and critically-acclaimed Grand Theft Auto V. Rockstar North has brought back the online mode to this installment, which continues on your character, if you transferred your previous online character from the previous installment to this one. When announced at E3 2020, the internet broke and fans of the series became once hyped once more. The game takes place in the state of Florida and returns to one of the most famous locations in the GTA lore; Vice City. Since Grand Theft Auto V got extremely good reception for having multiple playable characters in the campaign, this installment brings that feature back, with the player being able to play as four characters; a street racer, an undercover cop and part-time criminal, a career criminal, and a crime lord. The game also brings back the option to play in first-person mode and third-person mode. Although the map for Grand Theft Auto: Vice City was very small-scale, this Vice City map is about five times bigger than the map of the 3D era's game, including the previous map from Grand Theft Auto: Vice City and adding in the greater Vice City area and includes Florida City and Avagados, the fictional version of the real-life city known as Aventura., as well as ten different islands.

Playable Characters/Protagonists

 * Chase Crystals- undercover cop, part-time criminal, part of Vice City's highly corrupt police force
 * Kevin Guiche- career criminal; bank robber, highly-trained, very dangerous individual
 * Tod Freeman- one of Vice City's most wealthy business owners, CEO of Freeman Enterprises, owning a casino and many gunrunning and drug operations, as well as a huge criminal empire
 * Shaun Balicova- drug dealer and street racer- part of Tod Freeman's criminal empire and one of his many buyers

Antagonists

 * James Welker- main antagonist; commissioner of Vice City's police department, but also the secret vigilante individual who is trying to topple down Tod Freeman's gunrunning and drug operations for his own personal gain.
 * Detective Harvey Eastwood- antagonist of Chase Crystals; is Chase's partner and best-friend, but turns on Chase by trying to expose his double-agenda to the FIB, IAA, and the Vice Marchi Associations.
 * Clint Reverie- antagonist of Kevin Guiche; Guiche's cousin who aids Guiche in robbing banks and committing several acts of crime, but is later revealed to be an undercover Merryweather spy to gather information on Guiche's past to later to use it against him.
 * Trevor Careveo- antagonist of Tod Freeman; Vice City's most wealthy businessman and runs Vice Marchi Associations, as well as very close and trustworthy associate of Freeman's, but turns Marchi Associations against Freeman and tries to give Freeman's products in Freeman's empire to the corrupt IAA divisions and James Welker, who is Careveo's half-brother.
 * Matthew Riesco- antagonist of Shaun Balicova; Shaun Balivoca's childhood mentor and hero and is part of the Sons of Hellfire gang, who commits brutal acts of murder around the neighborhood of Little Cabana and targets Balicova's family, due to Balicova obtaining a horrendous amount of money from running with Kevin Guiche, Chase Crystals, and Tod Freeman and wants the money for himself to strengthen the Sons of Hellfire.

Supporting Characters

 * Michelle Liefer- Chase Crystal's girlfriend
 * Carl "Shorts" Welch- Tod Freeman's trusted assistant at the casino and gunrunning operations, as well as Tod's long-time best friend
 * Peter Elgar- Chase's best friend who gets himself caught up in the criminal life of Kevin Guiche and ends up being the one introducing Chase to Kevin
 * Ron Henderson- Vice Strip Club owner and Tod Freeman's main gunrunner and prime associate in Freeman Enterprises
 * Melissa Balicova- the mother of Shaun Balicova; worries for Shaun's dangerous activities and worries that he will one day meet his grave.
 * Milton Lopez- Tod Freeman's assistant in his drug operations that reside in Florida City and Vice City, as well as a criminal Chase pretends to arrest, which introduces Chase to Tod. Long-lost brother to Luis Lopez from Grand Theft Auto IV.
 * Joseph "JoJo" Balicova- younger brother of Shaun, who is basically Shaun's best friend in his life
 * Gerald Floyd- part of the Sons of Hellfire, but quickly gets out due to finding himself overly violent and uses his hacking skills to help the four criminals in surviving the dangerous life of Florida.
 * Tao Adams- former Triads gangster and Shaun Balicova's gun dealer
 * Roman Vercetti- former vigilante and helper of James Welker, but turns into an ally for the four criminals and uses his past vigilante skills to become an individual of great use. Long-lost son of Tommy Vercetti from Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, who is still alive somewhere in the lore.
 * Lester Crest- hacker and unknown associate in the criminal empire, returning from Grand Theft Auto V. Meets Kevin Guiche to help him in his fight against Clint Reverie and making sure his criminal profile and agenda does not get publicly revealed.

Episodes of Vice City Playable Characters/Protagonists

 * Ron Henderson- after the events of the main game, Ron creates his own venture of Vice City and other Florida City criminals to take down what if left of Trevor Careveo's criminal empire and performs a couple of heists on James Welker's left-over money after his death, with the help of Lester Crest.
 * Tommy Vercetti- now a 71-year old man, Tommy returns to Vice City to see what a city it has become and after finding out that his long-lost son was previously making moves in Florida, Tommy goes back to take back what if left of his original criminal empire.