Microsoft will convey Rockstar Games’ Grand Theft Auto 5 to Xbox Game Pass and GTA 5 Enhanced to Game Pass for PC on April 15.
This putting addition to the Wave 1 April 2025 lineup was introduced in an Xbox Wire post, revealing that the service’s largest new title of the month is only some weeks away from dropping. It’s an particularly engaging reveal, because the PC Game Pass model of GTA 5 comes with that all-new Enhanced replace Rockstar dropped in early March.
“No matter what model you’re taking part in, everybody can have entry to Oscar Guzman Flies Again, the most recent replace the place you’ll be able to take to the skies — taking management of the McKenzie Field Hanger in Grapeseed,” an official description from Xbox defined. “Play new arms trafficking missions, fly new plane, and extra.”
Its arrival in two Tuesdays will mark a triumphant return to Game Pass after Rockstar’s open-world masterpiece was beforehand faraway from the service. However, whereas the addition will mark the title’s first time on PC Game Pass, it’s not all sunshine and rainbows so far as many die-hard GTA followers are involved.
GTA 5 Enhanced arrived on PC March 4 as a free replace, bringing entry to all the most recent automobiles, efficiency upgrades in Hao’s Special Works, animal encounters, and visible bumps. It was a promising addition that additionally resulted in GTA 5 turning into Rockstar’s worst-reviewed title on Steam as gamers latched onto account migration points that saved them from bringing their GTA Online profiles over to the brand new model.
If you’re a newcomer to Los Santos, then you definately seemingly received’t have a lot to fret about. If you’re returning to the world of GTA 5 Online and trying to migrate your account over to that shiny new Enhanced improve, you may end up out of luck. For now, it seems the problems with account migration are nonetheless ongoing.
Meanwhile, we’re nonetheless ready for any information about Grand Theft Auto 6. Our final GTA 6 replace ensured that Rockstar meant to ship its subsequent open-world trend-setter someday this fall, although we’re nonetheless ready on that elusive launch date.
While Rockstar works out the kinks forward of GTA 5’s return to Game Pass, you’ll be able to learn up on the remainder of the Wave 1 April 2025 titles coming to Xbox Game Pass. You also can learn up on how Rockstar is supporting the modding group by granting them entry to official instruments.
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