Former GTA dev on the studio that became GTA 5-maker Rockstar North: "There was a spirit of creativity and freedom that just doesn’t exist today"

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Heres how it works.

“I thought GTA 4 wasn’t as good and as fun as the games before.

And I thought that the next one was going to be like, even darker.

I’m happy to see that I was wrong.

GTA 5 is a lot more light-hearted than GTA 4.

So I got that wrong,” Vermeij continued at the time.