Rockstar Games has revealed how much bigger Grand Theft Auto 6 is compared to GTA 5 and Red Dead Redemption 2, and the answer is a lot. The natural question for any gamer when discussing open-world games is how big the world is and how it compares to other massive games, but the best answer always depends. Sometimes a more expansive open-world is fitting, but there's definitely merit to smaller worlds with more handcrafted content.
Rockstar's open-world games have always been held to a high standard, though, so bigger is definitely better here. For added context, the map of Grand Theft Auto 5 is roughly 31 square miles, while the map of Red Dead Redemption 2 is roughly 29 square miles. These numbers do not count water and outer edges, and so there is definitely some "interpretation" involved in determining GTA 6's map size (and it also depends on what parts exactly are being compared).
GTA 6 officially confirms the first character returning from a previous game in the series in its Extended Look.
All that said, according to YouTuber TCG, who was able to visit Rockstar Games and see GTA 6 before the Netflix Extended...
