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Grand Theft Auto VI, like its protagonist Lucia, retains discovering itself in a clumsy spot due to “Dangerous luck, I suppose.”
The trailer for Rockstar Video games closely, mightily, impossibly anticipated sequel in its record-breaking collection landed on YouTube Monday evening, 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, but it surely’s notable for Rockstar, which generally 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. An adolescent within the UK was arrested on charges related to the leak shortly after Rockstar confirmed its veracity. TikTok movies have additionally just lately surfaced, with pc displays displaying off pictures of the sport’s setting, in accordance with The Verge.
The trailer, in lower than 90 seconds of totally pre-rendered, cutscene-style pictures, confirms just a few 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 via the lens of one in all its most iconic cities, appears to be totally intact.
How that is dealt with within the narrative and facet quests cannot be gleaned simply but. However there are quite a lot of bikinis, a person tangling with an alligator utilizing a pool skimmer, and Instagram/TikTok-style movies celebrating the sorts of issues that grow to be common on these platforms.
If you happen to don’t have 90 seconds to spare or the fitting display screen for the job, enable me to supply a non-exhaustive record 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 suppose.”
- 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 via the automated doorways
- A person in a Speedo operating from the cops
- A person in a Speedo watering his backyard
- A mugshot of a person coated in facial tattoos, broadcast on Spanish-language TV
- A clip from “Weazel Information” noting that “Filth-Bike Filth-Luggage” proceed to terrorize Vice Metropolis
- Lucia and her companion 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 will likely be produced with out Dan Houser on the lead. Houser left the company in 2020 after being a lead author and main power 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 submit was up to date at 7:25 pm ET on December 4 with particulars of the trailer’s content material and a observe about Dan Houser’s departure.