Simply moments after it leaked on social media, Rockstar Video games has formally revealed the trailer for Grand Theft Auto VI.
The trailer, which you’ll be able to watch under, additionally confirms that it is coming in 2025, and that the title is certainly merely Grand Theft Auto VI for now. No particular launch date was revealed.
The trailer offers us a take a look at the sport’s feminine protagonist, a primary for the sequence. Her title is Lucia, and that she begins off in jail – “dangerous luck, I assume,” she quips.
The trailer confirms, too, that it is set in Vice Metropolis with a big signal – not an enormous shock for many who’ve been following the sequence, however thrilling nonetheless. Along with tons and many fast photographs of crime, we additionally get glimpses of TikToks and live-streams, hinting that social media can be an enormous a part of this recreation.
All of it takes place as Tom Petty’s “Love Is a Lengthy Highway” performs within the background, acceptable for the various car-related crimes we see. And sure, true to the Florida-inspired setting, there are alligators in areas the place they should not be.
It ends by displaying us a little bit extra of Lucia and a male character, seemingly each lovers and partners-in-crime. “The one method we’re gonna get by means of that is by sticking collectively and being a staff,” Lucia says at one level.
Rockstar stated in November that the trailer would arrive in “early December,” leaving the online game business to sit down tight with bated breath. Affirmation lastly got here on December 1 when Rockstar revealed the trailer would arrive tomorrow, December 5, however Rockstar clearly pushed up the discharge following the leak.
Followers have been speaking about about GTA 6 ever since GTA 5 was launched in 2013, maybe unsurprisingly as IGN deemed that one a “masterpiece” in our overview.
The primary point out did not arrive till 2020 although when stories emerged round Rockstar trying to enhance working situations at its studios, and official phrase that improvement on GTA 6 was “nicely underway” got here in 2022.
Final yr wasn’t all constructive for Rockstar although as improvement footage of GTA 6 was leaked in a colossal information breach on the developer, with authorities ultimately arresting a British teenager in relation to the incident.
Rockstar had been quiet ever since, although writer Take-Two Interactive dropped a touch in Could 2023 when it projected huge monetary positive aspects between April 2024 and March 2025 because of the launch of an enormously worthwhile sequence.
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