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Grand Theft Auto VI, like its protagonist Lucia, retains discovering itself in a clumsy spot due to “Dangerous luck, I assume.”
The trailer for Rockstar Video games closely, mightily, impossibly anticipated sequel in its record-breaking collection landed on YouTube Monday night, sooner than its beforehand revealed Tuesday morning launch. That is as a result of a pop-up, shortly suspended X (previously Twitter) account posted it early, and Rockstar rushed to get its official model out, ending with a “Coming 2025” discover.
Grand Theft Auto VI trailer.
It is a mishap far smaller in scale than most leaks, nevertheless it’s notable for Rockstar, which usually lets out little or no about its video games past official trailers. GTA VI had practically an hour of early gameplay and testing footage leak out in early September 2022, following a community intrusion. A young person within the UK was arrested on costs associated to the leak shortly after Rockstar confirmed its veracity. TikTok movies have additionally lately surfaced, with laptop screens displaying off pictures of the sport’s setting, in line with The Verge.
The trailer, in lower than 90 seconds of fully pre-rendered, cutscene-style pictures, confirms a couple of issues urged by the leaked footage. The setting is as soon as once more Vice Metropolis, the collection’ fictionalized Miami. The protagonists are certainly a Bonne-and-Clyde-type duo, which incorporates the primary feminine protagonist within the collection. And Rockstar’s dim, satire-soaked view of American tradition, filtered by way of the lens of one among its most iconic cities, appears to be fully intact.
How that is dealt with within the narrative and facet quests cannot be gleaned simply but. However there are a whole lot of bikinis, a person tangling with an alligator utilizing a pool skimmer, and Instagram/TikTok-style movies celebrating the sorts of issues that turn into fashionable on these platforms.
Should you don’t have 90 seconds to spare or the best display for the job, enable me to supply a non-exhaustive checklist of issues within the trailer for you:
- The protagonist, Lucia, in jail, being requested why she was there, and responding with the road, “Dangerous luck, I assume.”
- Plenty of tall buildings, seashores, and palm bushes
- Tom Petty’s “Love Is a Lengthy Street”
- Flamingos and fan boats, hinting at Key West and Everglades areas
- A lady in night put on flailing rhapsodically above a convertible
- An compulsory strip membership, with a banner promoting “Make it Rain Mondays”
- A re-creation of an Ocean Drive, full with brightly coloured Cadillacs and heavy neon
- An alligator coming into a comfort retailer by way of the automated doorways
- A person in a Speedo working from the cops
- A person in a Speedo watering his backyard
- A mugshot of a person lined in facial tattoos, broadcast on Spanish-language TV
- A clip from “Weazel Information” noting that “Grime-Bike Grime-Luggage” proceed to terrorize Vice Metropolis
- Lucia and her associate in romance and crime, doing a stick-up and peeling out in a non-IP-infringing Dodge Charger.
GTA VI is the primary main Rockstar title that might be produced with out Dan Houser on the lead. Houser left the corporate in 2020 after being a lead author and main pressure in practically the entire studio’s video games for twenty years. Houser is famous as having formed the tone and magnificence of Rockstar’s video games all through its lengthy, regular ascent.
This publish was up to date at 7:25 pm ET on December 4 with particulars of the trailer’s content material and a word about Dan Houser’s departure.
