Leaked Files Reveal Rockstar Nearly Sent GTA 5 Players to Paris in Canceled Story DLC
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Dataminers sorting through a massive Rockstar Games leak have discovered assets from a canceled GTA 5 story DLC that would have taken players to a Paris apartment overlooking the Eiffel Tower.
Recent datamining efforts from a massive Rockstar Games data leak have uncovered plans for a Grand Theft Auto 5 story expansion that would have taken players across the Atlantic to Paris. Files discovered in the 192GB leak point to an apartment level featuring a balcony view of the Eiffel Tower. While the landmark was rendered only as a flat background image, the discovery offers a fascinating look at what could have been before the project was ultimately scrapped.
This isn't the first time Rockstar has toyed with taking its signature crime franchise outside the United States. Former studio developers have previously shared that locations like Tokyo, Moscow, and Rio de Janeiro were considered at various points. A standalone story DLC set in Europe would have offered a clever middle ground for testing how the franchise translates to international soil without committing an entire mainline release to the experiment.
Unfortunately, single-player expansions for Los Santos were quietly shelved as the unstoppable revenue machine of GTA Online took total priority. Alongside the Paris assets, leaked files have pointed to planned Liberty City content and an Agent Trevor episode that never saw the light of day. While community members pore over the remaining data, it serves as a bittersweet reminder of the single-player expansions we missed while waiting for the next chapter in the series.
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