GTA-Remaster: Rockstar removes tiny detail to avoid shitstorm

The upcoming new edition of the popular gangsterepos is poorer around a small but fine point. The video material revealed in the past week, in which the arms dealer Phil Cassidy is visible, reveals why. But you have to look very closely.

Permanent fineness removed in the GTA-Remaster

Attentive fans of GTA should certainly have noticed the small detail long ago. The new trailer published a few days ago Grand Theft Auto: Trilogy - The Definitive Edition reveals a small visual change in the character Phil Cassidy, which could also have more far-reaching incisions into play.

If you stop at the time stamp 0:34 the video, you can recognize the arms dealer Cassidy, a weapon dealer. This wears a black T-shirt with printed skull on the chest. What is unusual about it? Exactly! The usual Southern Flag for this figure was removed and replaced against said skull.

To explain : The Southern Flag, also known as a Confederated Flag or Blood-Stained Banner, to German blood-stained banners, was one of the symbols of the Confederated States of America. More specifically, the war flag of the Army of Northern Virginia , the main army of the Confederate.

To defend the slavery, which was legal then in those regions, these states wore the conflict known as the American Civil War against the north. The aim was the cleavage of the US and founding of its own confederation, which did not succeed.

Racism icon is not only banished from GTA

Nowadays this banner stands as a sign of racism and is already limited in distribution for some time . As early as 2015, Apple s matches from the App Store were removed, which show this flag. Twitch has also banned this icon on its streaming platform.

Within the GTA series Cassidy already had several appearances. Both in Grand Theft Car 3, Grand Theft Car: Vice City, as well as Grand Theft Car: Liberty City Stories and Grand Theft Car: Vice City Stories is the Waffennarr represented. The shirt - on the bottom left to see links - Cassidy only carries in the Miami offshoot .

Whether the adaptation also has an integral impact on the presentation of the flag in the rest of the game and future parts of Rockstar Games remains to be seen. GTA: Trilogy - The Definitive Edition appears on November 11 for PC, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X | S and the Nintendo Switch. (Source: Kotaku)