Rockstar has good news for Xbox Game Pass and xCloud subscribers

If you are one of those people who haven't yet bought Grand Theft Auto V but have a Game Pass, you will soon be able to play the hit from Rockstar Games as part of this subscription (via @videotechuk, an insider specializing in Rockstar-related topics).

1. The game will be available in both PC and console subscription versions.
2. We don't have the exact date yet. We only know that the game will return to the Game Pass offer this month.
3. The game will also be available as part of the xCloud streaming service.
4. GTA 5 has been available multiple times on Game Pass, but only in the console version (the game was last taken off the service in January of last year). Now it will not only return to Xbox, but also launch for the first time in the PC version of this subscription.

The game will most likely be available on PC in the Enhanced version, which was released at the beginning of this month. It introduced extra content to GTA Online, which was previously only available on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X, and Xbox Series S, as well as many graphics improvements, including ray tracing.

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Unfortunately, this release turned out to be controversial, mainly because of technical issues. This is best illustrated by the fact that on Steam, GTA 5 Enhanced has only 62% positive reviews. Players are still able to download the previous version there (currently known as Grand Theft Auto V Legacy), and we wonder if Game Pass will have a similar option.

This would be very useful because the community on Steam is currently almost equally divided between these two editions. Yesterday's activity record for Enhanced was 88,000 players playing simultaneously, while for Legacy, it was 84,000. That's why users would undoubtedly appreciate the possibility of downloading the old version as part of the subscription.

1. Grand Theft Auto V Enhanced on Steam

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