GTA 5 free download announced as we wait desperately for GTA 6

Rockstar Games has been kinda enough to grace players with a pretty huge Grand Theft Auto V freebie, assumedly to help stave off the boredom while we wait for Grand Theft Auto VI.

As revealed by Senior Community Lead Megan Spurr on the Xbox Wire blog, Grand Theft Auto V will be landing on Xbox Game Pass in just over a week on April 15.

While the standard edition of GTA V is coming to Xbox One and Xbox Series S/X players, Game Pass owners on PC will be able to get their hands on the new "Enhanced" version of GTA V.

GTA V Enhanced comes with a bunch of technical enhancements that are unique to the PC version of the game, including ray tracing features such as ambient occlusion and global illumination, alongside faster loading times.

All versions also come packaged with the latest GTA Online update Hao's Special Works, which adds a new auto shop and several new cars.

If you’re reading this post and thinking, “I’m pretty sure Grand Theft Auto V was already on Xbox Game Pass”, then you’d be right! But you’d also be wrong, because the game has been taken off the service several times over the past few years.

It usually only sticks around for a couple of months though, so if you’ve somehow managed to make it through the past 12 years without giving the story mode a go, I’d suggest hopping on this ASAP.

Assumedly Rockstar Games and Take-Two are adding it back in an attempt to squeeze a little bit more money out of the Shark Cards before Grand Theft Auto VI lands and sucks up all of GTA Online’s revenue.

Could this be a sign that GTA VI is closer than we all assume? Probably not, considering they seem to add GTA V to Xbox Game Pass every year, but let’s pretend otherwise if that helps add some weight to whatever new crackpot theory you guys are cooking up.