Even though days have passed since the GTA 6 Extended Look debuted on Netflix and previews from those who were shown the game at Rockstar started to surface, more new details about the game continue to emerge. The latest is that, after decades of tapping away to make GTA protagonists sprint, Rockstar has finally switched things up and assigned sprinting to the left thumbstick.
There are various mechanics present across countless games that were once automatically assigned to one button that have since shifted elsewhere. Holding X on a PlayStation controller, or the equivalent on your console of choice, to accelerate in racing games making the universal move to the right trigger is the one that always springs to mind first.
When on foot, in almost every game you play, clicking the left stick will make your character sprint. The biggest exception to this has been the GTA games. For decades, you have had to tap X on PlayStation, or A on Xbox, to sprint. A new video courtesy of streamer MikeShowSha, who got hands-on with GTA 6 for two hours, has confirmed that in the new game, tapping X to sprint will become a thing of the past....
