“Elsewhere Entertainment” from Poland belongs to Activision Blizzard and is currently working on a new open-world RPG that suspiciously sounds like GTA.
What kind of game is it? So far, little is known about the secret project at Blizzard. What is known comes from the job postings of the Polish studio (via activision.com) and remains very vague. Nevertheless, the unannounced project is said to be an open-world role-playing game set in a modern urban environment with traffic, vehicles, and chases.
In addition, there will be firearms, melee weapons, and explosions, as well as a partially destructible game world. Of course, there will also be vehicles and a progression system that players can interact with. But not everything screams GTA.
The real GTA 6 is still highly anticipated:
GTA with magic and monsters
What is different from GTA? Although the open-world RPG clearly draws on elements found in GTA, there are also differences. Instead of just fighting with rival gangs, the police, and during heists, the new Blizzard title is also said to feature monsters and magic.
While this may not sound much like GTA as we know it, the title must clearly differentiate itself from the competition. For example, one could replace the zany alien weapons from GTA 5 with magic and still not completely overturn the game’s concept.
Will there be a multiplayer mode? Yes, according to the information available so far, there will also be a multiplayer mode for the new title. Therefore, the new game will not be a pure single-player title, but whether it adopts a sandbox style like GTA Online or a completely different multiplayer concept is still completely unclear.
Who is working on the game? The game is being developed by Elsewhere Entertainment. The developer studio was founded by Activision Blizzard in Warsaw in mid-2024 and is said to be working on “creating a new, story-driven AAA franchise that will redefine a genre,” according to a press release (via activision.com).
This description fits well if you really want to take on GTA 6, because by the time the new title is released, the open-world hit should have long been out.
Despite its short existence, experts who have worked on games such as The Last of Us, Uncharted, The Witcher, Cyberpunk, Destiny, Tom Clancy’s The Division, and Far Cry are said to work at the studio – the opposite of indie games.
With the studio’s founding in 2024 and the current job postings, Blizzard’s GTA will probably take several more years to arrive, but it will be exciting to see how the competition plans to offer a new facet to the genre without being too unusual. Another alternative to GTA is said to have just been completed: Ubisoft wanted to compete with GTA with a game series, now an insider says it is over
