The excitement around Grand Theft Auto 6 is showing no signs of slowing down, with the upcoming Rockstar project still reportedly holding firm on its late 2025 release window. Fans are still desperate to learn more about the core experiences that the game will eventually offer, with glimpses of Vice City and one of its protagonists, Lucia, being the only real areas of the title that have been explored so far as things stand.
While the launch content of Grand Theft Auto 6 is expected to be massive across its single-player and online modes, there is still a lot of pressure on the title to deliver an impressive amount of post-launch content, particularly in relation to single-player. This is an area that the GTA franchise has been infamously lacking in for quite some time now, with Grand Theft Auto 6 having to look as far back as GTA 4 to learn some real lessons on what memorable post-launch single-player content should look like for the franchise. It already seems as if GTA 6's story is going to be quite grounded, intricate, and story-driven, and this should allow the game to emulate the kinds of alternative-perspective DLCs that Grand Theft Auto 4 used to great success for its own story.

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GTA 4-Styled DLC Could Take Grand Theft Auto 6's Story to the Next Level
The story of Grand Theft Auto 5 is a massively popular and defining experience for the wider GTA franchise, with its bold decision to feature three simultaneous protagonists offering new gameplay avenues that played into the strengths of the narrative as well as its major setting of Los Santos and the surrounding areas. Despite the success that GTA 5's story mode garnered, it has received essentially no follow-up content since its first release in 2013, with Rockstar shifting most of its attention towards Grand Theft Auto Online instead.
The lack of post-launch expansions for GTA 5's story is a real stain on what is otherwise one of the most record-breaking pieces of media ever made, with this lack of action on Rockstar's behalf being made all the more confusing by the franchise's prior success with this kind of content. 2008's Grand Theft Auto 4 stands as the peak of what the franchise can offer in terms of story expansions that directly tie into and flesh out a game's narrative, with both The Lost and Damned and The Ballad of Gay Tony being fantastic additions to the title.
Both of these single-player story expansions are set directly alongside the main narrative of Grand Theft Auto 4, with the events of the main game tying directly into both TLaD and TBoGT. With both of these expansions featuring new protagonists, they offer fascinating new perspectives to the base game, with famous GTA 4 protagonist Niko Bellic even appearing as a minor character in both of these post-launch experiences.
The Scale of Grand Theft Auto 6's Story Will Be Perfect For Expansions with New Perspectives
GTA 5 chose not to feature a single post-launch expansion for its main story, much to the dismay of fans. Recent leaks even suggest that Rockstar once had lofty plans for this kind of DLC, with Trevor Philips acting as an undercover agent for a corrupt branch of the government being one example of a reportedly canceled expansion for GTA 5. It seems that many of these canceled GTA 5 expansions still feature the three main protagonists in leading roles, however, and any story DLC for GTA 6 should instead go down the fresh protagonist route of GTA 4's post-launch content.
The scale of GTA 6's main story is expected to be massive, meaning the narrative potential of intertwining stories and alternate perspectives related to its major events seems essentially limitless. Rockstar could easily capitalize on DLC stories that supplement the main narrative, perhaps related to rumored aspects of GTA 6 such as Jason's potential role as an undercover police officer, with new characters shining fresh lights on the skewed perspectives of the main story and its two protagonists. GTA 4 managed to increase the scope of its mainline story massively with well-thought-out story expansions featuring new characters, and Grand Theft Auto 6 should revive this successful formula within its own ambitious story.