With over 185 million copies bought, Grand Theft Auto 5 is definitely the best-selling full-priced recreation of all time and among the many most profitable leisure releases throughout all mediums. To at the present time, GTA 5 ranks among the many most performed video games on PlayStation, Xbox, and PC. Nonetheless, it has been 10 years since its debut, and followers are anticipating a brand new addition to the Grand Theft Auto collection.
In anticipation of Rockstar’s subsequent open-world journey, we’ve compiled this complete overview of every thing we learn about Grand Theft Auto 6, together with the primary trailer, launch window, platforms, setting, gameplay, and extra.
GTA 6 Trailer
The primary Grand Theft Auto 6 trailer has been launched — see it above! The 90-second debut trailer was anticipated to drop on December 5, although a leak led Rockstar to launch it a day early.
The trailer reached over 100 million views inside two days. It broke the file for the most-viewed online game reveal on YouTube over 24 hours and the most-viewed non-music video on YouTube in 24 hours.
GTA 6 Launch Window
GTA 6 has formally been set to launch in 2025. Rockstar revealed the discharge window alongside the primary trailer in early December. A particular timeframe inside 2025 has not been introduced.
GTA 6 Platforms
GTA 6 will launch on PS5 and Xbox Sequence X|S. A PC model is predicted, however it was not listed amongst GTA 6’s launch platforms. Rockstar’s two newest authentic releases — GTA 5 and Crimson Lifeless 2 — have been launched on PC at the very least a 12 months after debuting on consoles.
GTA 6 Setting
Grand Theft Auto 6 will return to Vice Metropolis — the franchise’s stand-in for Miami — which is about inside the broader map of Leonida (Florida). The debut trailer riffs on only a few of the bizarre and wild happenings in current Florida historical past, together with the “Florida Joker,” a unadorned man doing yard work, a lady twerking atop a transferring automobile, and several other run-ins with native gators. Rockstar calls it “the most important, most immersive evolution of the Grand Theft Auto collection but.”
The trailer additionally options Rockstar’s variations of TikToks and livestreams, pointing towards a modern-day setting.
The GTA 6 trailer references three counties we are able to count on to discover: the brilliant lights of Vice-Dale, the wetands of Kelly, and the smalll cities of Leonard. For far more on the specifics of every county, take a look at out our in-depth breakdown of the GTA 6 trailer areas.
Based on a 2022 Bloomberg report, Vice Metropolis is simply the start line: Rockstar will purportedly add “new missions and cities regularly.” GTA 6 can be mentioned to incorporate extra inside areas than any earlier GTA. The report states GTA 6 is codenamed Challenge Americas, in reference to Rockstar’s rumored plan to initially embody North and South American areas at launch. That plan, nevertheless, is alleged to have been scrapped to cut back crunch.
GTA 6 Story, Protagonists
As confirmed by the primary trailer, Grand Theft Auto 6 will star ex-convict Lucia and her unamed, male associate in crime (reportedly Jason). Lucia is the primary feminine playable character in GTA’s 3D period, and followers are already enamored.
The trailler is mild on plot, although it options this alternate between its two protagonists, lending credence to its reported Bonnie & Clyde inspiration:
“The one means we’re gonna get via that is by sticking collectively. Being a staff,” says Lucia. “Belief?”
“Belief,” responds the male protagonist.
Singer-songwriter T-Ache will seemingly seem in GTA 6 as properly. The artist mentioned his involvement after being requested why he not performs on the GTA 5 role-playing servier NoPixel. “I was on NoPixel, then I began engaged on GTA VI, and so they instructed me I could not do RP anymore as a result of it form of goes in opposition to… they’d this complete speech, like, ‘What if anyone took your album and re-recorded it, and extra individuals have been listening to that,’ and I am like, ‘Okay, I form of get that, however I used to be having a superb time. Alright that is high-quality,'” he mentioned.
As is custom for the franchise, you possibly can count on different celebrities in GTA 6 as properly.
GTA 6 Announcement
In February 2022 Rockstar formally confirmed the following Grand Theft Auto (presumably named GTA VI) was in improvement. Right here’s the official announcement from Rockstar:
“With the unprecedented longevity of GTA V, we all know lots of you’ve gotten been asking us a couple of new entry within the Grand Theft Auto collection. With each new venture we embark on, our aim is at all times to considerably transfer past what we have now beforehand delivered — and we’re happy to verify that energetic improvement for the following entry within the Grand Theft Auto collection is properly underway. We stay up for sharing extra as quickly as we’re prepared, so please keep tuned to the Rockstar Newswire for official particulars.
“On behalf of our complete staff, we thanks all to your assist and can’t wait to step into the long run with you!”
GTA 6 Gameplay (Leak)
On September 18, 2022, Grand Theft Auto 6 was the topic of what will be the most important online game leak of all time. A hacker gained entry to Rockstar’s community and stole dozens of belongings earlier than importing 90 GTA 6 movies on-line.
The in-development footage, which was verified by Rockstar, confirmed off components of the sport world, gunplay, and NPCs. It additionally seemingly confirmed GTA 6 will characteristic one male and one feminine protagonist. (Talking of NPCs: Rockstar filed a patent in 2019 for extra practical and immersive NPC drivers. The know-how, which can be utilized in GTA 6, permits AI drivers to “outline [their] personal particular traits for traversing the highway nodes.”)
10 months after the leak, a British teenager was arrested for his involvement in a collection of hacks, one in all which is believed to be the origin of the massive GTA 6 leak.
GTA 6 Developer
Grand Theft Auto 6 is being developed by Rockstar North, the studio answerable for each mainline GTA recreation for the reason that franchise’s debut in 1997. Notably, in August, Rockstar started formally working with Cfx.re, the modding staff behind the most important GTA 5 roleplay servers. It’s unclear if the group will work on related content material for GTA 6.
Two staple builders of the Grand Theft Auto collection left Rockstar within the years following GTA 5: Rockstar video games co-founder/head author Dan Houser and former Rockstar North president Leslie Benzies. Houser wrote on many of the Grand Theft Auto video games from GTA 2 to GTA 5, whereas Benzies served as a collection producer since Grand Theft Auto 3.
Rockstar’s VP of writing Mike Unsworth has additionally left the corporate, although given the timing of his departure (August 2023), his work on GTA 6 might have been accomplished.
Jordan covers video games, reveals, and flicks as a contract author for IGN.