I don't see it, but I'm also not super familiar with their work.
Either way, I have to say that the characters and story are one of the weaker points of the game, so far. The characters are ridiculously forgettable and the pacing is godawful so far. The first time you go riding to your next mission, it's great. Super atmospheric, random adventures pop up out of nowhere. The fifteen time down the same dusty road and I'm suddenly reminded why I play games to escape from the dredge of reality.
Not to say it's a bad game. Far from it. It's amazingly polished and has some great fun moments in it, but I feel like it's trying to hard to tell a realistic story and that just doesn't mesh well with the open world action adventure genre. I also feel like they spent too much time on making pointless side stuff feel realistic. They could have easily put half that effort into fixing the stupid police system and it would have been infinitely better.