For most open-world enthusiasts, few moments rival those first tentative steps into a new and unexplored sandbox. Everything is fresh, unknown and ripe for discovery as we ponder eschewing arbitrary map icons in favour of checking out far-off landmarks simply because we can.
GTA 6 will deliver this experience for the vast majority of nomadic crime-sim enjoyers when we finally get the chance to visit new-age Vice City for the first time this May—at least on consoles. But for one community within Grand Theft Auto fandom, those groundbreaking strides will be, all going to plan, defined by familiarity.
