Rockstar Games’ may have planned to refactor its canceled title Agent into story DLC for GTA V at one point.
During a GTA V Q&A session with Ned Luke (Michael), Shawn Fonteno (Franklin), and Steven Ogg (Trevor), it was suggested that Rockstar Games may have, at one point, planned to refactor its canceled title Agent into story DLC for GTA V. However, given the success of GTA Online, the company eventually decided to not go through with it and focus on bringing new content to its popular live service game instead.
Steven Ogg, the actor who played the character of Trevor in GTA V, mentioned that Rockstar Games had recorded a few scenes with him involving an alternate storyline. In the aforementioned storyline, Trevor would be an undercover agent who works for the feds. He likened the character to a “James Bond Trevor”. Ogg mentioned that this version of Trevor is still somewhat messy, but he does his best to pretend to be good at his job. The actor said that nothing eventually became of the recorded sessions, as Rockstar Games didn’t follow up on its plans.
The concept for the GTA V story content that Ogg described is quite similar to what Rockstar Games had planned for its canceled title Agent. Plans to do an alternate timeline for GTA V with Trevor and gang playing federal agents may have been a way for the developer to salvage some of the asset work that had already been done for Agent. However, due to the massive success of GTA Online, fragments of the DLC content were likely to have been pushed into the online component instead.
GTA V was released on September 2013 for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360, in November 2014 for the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One, in April 2015 for PC, and in March 2022 for the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S.
