Grand Theft Auto Online has grown significantly over the years to become a dominant aspect of the popular franchise, with millions of fans still enjoying the longstanding multiplayer mode. The varied sandbox gameplay of the title is enough to keep players endlessly engaged, but Rockstar has gone to great lengths to continually add fresh content to the game since 2013 to really bolster its range of experiences.
Alongside a long list of consistent updates, Grand Theft Auto Online also often implements a variety of seasonal events, bringing exciting gameplay changes that are themed around real-world holidays. Halloween in particular has always been an exciting holiday for GTA Online, and Rockstar has already outlined some of its plans for this year’s event. With this likely being the last Halloween event for the GTA 5 era of Grand Theft Auto Online, Rockstar has gone all-out for the event, with a new survival mode in a familiar location seeming like the perfect combination for success.
GTA Online’s Halloween Mode Brings Things Full-Circle
Rockstar has been hinting towards a huge October for Grand Theft Auto Online for a while now, with a lot of fresh content being expected to drop for the game throughout the month. A lot of this upcoming content will be related to Halloween, most likely coming with the kind of spooky cosmetics and vehicles that have been staples of past GTA Online Halloween updates over the years.
While there is still not a lot of official information regarding these Halloween additions, Rockstar has confirmed that players will soon be able to return to North Yankton, specifically the location’s Ludendorff Cemetery. North Yankton played a significant part in Grand Theft Auto 5‘s story, being the snow-covered setting of the game’s opening mission that detailed the end of Michael and Trevor’s initial criminal partnership.
Ludendorff Cemetery is also seen during the events of the game, with Michael and Trevor’s partner, Brad Snider, being buried in a grave marked with Michael’s name. While not officially confirmed, leaks have suggested that Ludendorff Cemetery will be available in GTA Online as the setting of a brand-new survival game mode, where players will battle against waves of zombies as one of the staples of the game’s upcoming Halloween event.
Rockstar Could Be Repeating a Successful Past Formula with GTA Online’s Zombie Survival Mode
This survival concept is very reminiscent of Red Dead Redemption‘s famous Undead Nightmare expansion, where players would often have to cleanse graveyards from waves of the undead in what were tense and memorable gameplay sequences. A zombified Brad could even serve as a kind of final boss for GTA Online‘s survival mode, giving the experience more variety and tying in well to the narrative links that North Yankton shares to GTA 5‘s story.
As potentially the last Halloween update for GTA Online, it only seems right that Rockstar is leaning heavily into the overall legacy of the game, with North Yankton being the first memory of GTA 5 that many players will have experienced. The introduction of a brand-new location is enough to get fans of GTA Online excited, and it is extremely fitting that such a narratively important location is being used while still maintaining the creepy vibe needed for a good Halloween setting. With even more content being slated to come out as October progresses, this year’s Halloween update appears to have a very good chance of being the most memorable that Grand Theft Auto Online has ever seen.
