Besides the flag on his clothes, Phil’s most notable feature is his one arm, as he lost the other one (the right one) during the events of GTA: Vice City when he was caught in the blast radius of one of his homemade explosive devices.Ĭassidy is also mentioned in another Rockstar Games title, the 2003’s Manhunt, by Carcer City Police Department members, implying that he expanded his gun-dealing business over to Carcer City too, which is close to Grand Theft Auto’s Liberty City.I'd call Vice City the first truly contentious Grand Theft Auto game, not because it contains more blood, more sex or more swearing (nobody says "fuck" even once, the entire game) than any of its predecessors, but because it makes crime and violence look as if they pay, and pay well. However, he’s most prominently featured in 2002’s GTA: Vice City – the only game in which he’s actually depicted wearing the Confederate flag on his clothes. #GTAV - GTA News 🔴 August 1, 2015Īn arms dealer, gun freak, and drunk, Phil Cassidy appeared in several Grand Theft Auto titles, including GTA III, Vice City, Vice City Stories, and Liberty City Stories. Rockstar Games have removed the Confederate flag out of GTAV and replaced them with the American Flag. And they did it at an appropriate time since Twitch introduced guidelines at the end of 2020, which banned the display of the Confederate flag due to its symbolic association with slavery and white supremacist groups. The developer and publisher of the GTA franchise has since replaced all Confederate flags with American flags across all games where such flags aren’t crucial to the narrative. Gamers first caught wind of this after the flag was removed from one of the trailer parks in Grand Theft Auto Online, beginning in 2015, though the symbol remained elsewhere in the game. With that said, this isn’t the first time Rockstar Games has removed the Confederate flag from its games. It’s still unclear whether this omittance of the symbol of Southern slavery has been removed from the remasters as a whole, though it seems unlikely that Rockstar Games went through all the trouble of such an alteration for the purpose of a single trailer.
Among its reveals, the footage offers a brief glimpse of arms dealer Phil Cassidy – a recurring Grand Theft Auto character – sporting a black t-shirt with a skull across the front instead of his usual Confederate flag. As reported by Kotaku, the newly released trailer showcases many of the game’s graphical updates.
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