The trailer was leaked early
Rockstar loves its secrets and can be extremely litigious when its secrecy is threatened. You can barely find much about the massive 2022 GTA 6 leak, because it was all shut down by Rockstar’s legal team. However, the trailer did “leak”, causing it to be posted officially hours before it was meant to be.
The first trailer for Rockstar Games’ Grand Theft Auto VI has arrived, and it’s promising a new female protagonist. More of a teaser than anything, the trailer introduces viewers to Lucia, a woman who blames her incarceration on “bad luck, I guess.”
To say Grand Theft Auto VI is hotly anticipated is an understatement. Rockstar's last car larceny game dropped more than 10 years ago, and despite a circus of speculation and some leaks in 2022, fans have seen almost nothing official from the franchise.
Today’s trailer doesn’t offer much in the way of details. A series of flashing scenes set to Tom Petty’s “Love is a Long Road” feature beaches, late-night parties, and a lot of butts, as Lucia plans a robbery with a partner. It’s the first time Grand Theft Auto has included a female antihero, and it appears players will be returning to Vice City.
It’s due out in 2025:
The trailer confirms we can expect GTA 6 to arrive in 2025. There’s no month mentioned yet, not least because Rockstar may not be able to pinpoint the release to that extent without risking future delays.
In the past, fans have pored over such trailers and teasers to look for clues on specific dates. The one we found is during a short scene of a police raid, where the body cam potentially displays the date 08-04. In American date orientation, that would be August 4. Does it mean anything? Who knows?
Rockstar Games' titles typically aren't delayed too badly. But the PC version of GTA V had three different release dates, pushed back from January 2015 to April 2015 — a very small delay by today’s standards.
GTA 6 features a woman as a lead character:
As has been widely reported, one of GTA 6’s main characters is a woman, Lucia. We see her in prison, and out of it, committing an armed robbery.
“Do you know why you’re here?” the prison counsellor asks her. “Bad luck, I guess,” she replies. The initial impression is she will be more likeable and personable than either Michael or Trevor from GTA V. It’s a welcome change of pace for the franchise, which has often been criticised for its sexualisation and degradation of women. This time around, the vibe looks to be a lot more Bonnie and Clyde, which we’re definitely here for.
It’s part love story:
Speaking of Bonnie and Clyde: the other key character we see in the trailer is the woman’s partner. He’s not named (though the Rockstar leaks last year identified him as 'Jason'), but there is a borderline tender, two-second scene of the pair in a bedroom or hotel room. Each says they trust the other before the view jumps to a scene of them bursting in to a shop with guns out, presumably to rob the place.
Rockstar Games has released the first trailer for Grand Theft Auto 6, the next game in its generation-defining, open-world crime series, after it leaked early online.
The previous GTA game, Grand Theft Auto V, has sold more than 190m copies since its release in 2013. Combined with its online iteration GTA Online, it is the single-most profitable entertainment product of all time, having generated more than $7.7bn (£6.3bn) for publisher Take-Two.
The GTA 6 trailer teases a 2025 release date, and will return players to Rockstar’s fictional Miami setting, Vice City, which was last seen in 2006’s GTA: Vice City Stories.
Ten years in the making, GTA VI’s first trailer could have been nothing more than the Roman numeral for six, and it would have likely fueled discussion and speculation until the heat death of the universe. Fortunately, the trailer was meatier than that, featuring GTA standards — fast cars, reckless gunplay, handfuls full of ill-gotten cash, and general American-flavored hedonism — set against the backdrop of Vice City, a fictionalized version of Miami.
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