Though we don’t know when the database in question was created, there are a few clues that got us thinking.

There’s a database file with debug and project status information, and fans have tracked down code traces that point to abandoned concepts. The date on the file is the big question mark, so we don’t know when Rockstar Games created this. Some images of the file have surfaced on Twitter, and there is a text section that references Bully 2, but Grand Theft Auto IV, Midnight Club Los Angeles, and Red Dead Redemption 2 have also been mentioned.

The file also makes reference to Trevor wearing a jetpack, and according to @billsyliamgta, who wrote the tweet, this is evidence that a Grand Theft Auto V story DLC was planned. This plan was scrapped by Rockstar Games, and the studio then turned the plan into GTA Online missions (it evolved into a mission called Doomsday Heist). According to another tweeter, @GlowDevs, there are several references in the file to a canceled mode related to CNC. CNC was supposed to cover Cops ‘N’ Crooks, where we could control cops or criminals, but after a cop killed George Floyd in 2020, Rockstar quietly canceled the project.

This gameplay was never officially confirmed, but Jason Schreier, writing for Bloomberg, reported on it last July, and his information was reported in the previous paragraph. And VGC has already written about Bully 2 in 2019. The site understands that Rockstar New England was working on it, but after a year and a half development stalled in the early 2010s (but by then they had created a build with basic open-world gameplay), and by 2008 Dan Houser and some colleagues had already written the script for the first few scenes, and the rest of the story was sketched out.

And Bully 2 hasn’t been announced by Rockstar since. Knowing them, it’s not going to happen.

Source: VGC