A History Of Grand Theft Auto Box Art, From GTA 1 To GTA 6

A novidade esta movimentando o setor. Grand Theft Auto 6 launches in a few months, and with Rockstar Games officially opening up preorders soon for the open-world crime caper, we've also gotten a first look at the official cover art for it.

Importante mencionar que The GTA 6 cover isn't deviating from a design template that the franchise has been using for decades now, and in case you missed it, here's a closer look at it: So how does this compare to older GTA covers? The original games developed by DMA Design kept things simple when they first came out, as both GTA 1 and GTA 2 used real-life photography mixed with flashy titles to grab eyeballs at the time. The exception was the GTA London mission packs, which opted for an old-fashioned Gaussian Blur of the Union Jack: Fast-forward to 2001, and GTA 3 raised the bar for open-world games upon its release.

The first game in the series--developed at Rockstar Games--GTA 3 had several covers, but it was the mosaic design by Stephen Bliss that would become synonymous with the franchise. The original cover art was changed following the September 11 attacks in 2001, with Rockstar wanting to distance itself from the tragic events. Rockstar Games co-founder Dan Houser said that Bliss came up with the new--and now iconic cover design in a single night, and it was inspired by movie posters like the one used for The Thomas Crown Affair. "This was done by one of our artists in an evening, and as soon as we saw it, we preferred it to the cover we had planned to use," Houser said to IGN . Continue acompanhando pra nao perder as novidades.