'According to Steam, I have around 10,000 hours logged,' says the modder who's spent a decade turning GTA 5 into a photo realistic wonderland

When those first bars of Tom Petty's Love Is a Long Road rang out against a sun-kissed cityscape in late December 2023, the world changed for GTA 6 anticipators. For those keen and waiting fans, the first trailer for the next long-awaited entry in Rockstar's crime simulator series offered a glimpse of what lay ahead. Finally, it was real, thereafter fueling reams of speculation about its characters, its setting, its mission structure and its inevitable deluge of unscrupulous side quests that will define our return to Vice City...
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