Eight single-player DLC expansions were planned for Grand Theft Auto 5, before being cancelled. This would have included a story centred around Trevor and another that would have seen players return to Liberty City.
This comes from yet another GTA leak, this time of GTA 5’s source code. Fans have since dived into this leaked material and believe that they’ve found evidence of the scrapped expansions, suggesting that Rockstar didn’t always intend to leave GTA 5 without any DLC whatsoever.
Rockstar has previously indicated that GTA 5 didn’t get any DLC because its time was taken up by the next-gen ports, GTA Online and Red Dead Redemption 2. This might be why so many expansions were abandoned.
As reported by Insider Gaming, the list of DLC is as follows:
- SP Assassination Pack
- SP Manhunt Pack
- SP Norman Pack
- Agent Trevor
- Relationship Pack
- Enterprise Pack
- Prologue DLC
- LibertyV DLC
As these names suggest, not all of these expansions would have given us new stories. Anything with “pack” on the end would have likely just expanded some game mechanics, perhaps adding more social or business elements in the cases of the Relationship and Enterprise Packs. However, Prologue DLC, LibertyV DLC, and Agent Trevor certainly sound like they could have been full stories, either continuing or shedding more light on aspects of the main narrative.
This list of cancelled expansions hasn’t been officially confirmed, but it comes from last year’s Rockstar hack. We had previously seen parts of the stolen GTA 5 source code, but now, it appears that whoever had their hands on the data has decided to make it public.
Just days ago, one of the hackers who gained access to this material, 18-year-old Arion Kurtaj, was sentenced to a stay in a “secure hospital” until he is no longer considered to be a risk to the public. This follows claims that he was violent while in custody and that he continued to express a desire to carry out further hacks during the proceedings. In fact, he was found to have carried out the Rockstar hack while he was being held in a hotel room, suspected of carrying out similar hacks on other targets.
On top of this, Kurtaj was deemed unfit to stand trial, so the jury in the case did not assess whether he did the hack with criminal intent. He will be held in the hospital indefinitely until doctors deem that he no longer poses a threat.
Can A Gamer Have A Truly Merry Christmas Anymore?
With the digital future, online play, battle passes, and long installation times, the gamer Christmases we grew up with are gone.