GTA 6 trailer sends fans into frenzy, earns game dev praise, and leads people to ponder their inevitable demise: 'What if we die before GTA 6 releases in 2025?'
Grand Theft Auto 6, the latest open-world crime simulator from Table Tennis studio Rockstar Games, got its first trailer yesterday. Perhaps you heard. So far as I can make out, the reaction so far has been a kind of obsessive euphoria, as literally millions of people around the world pore over 90 seconds of footage to pick out details, theorycraft, and plan literal crimes against humanity.
100 MPH straight through this beach in GTA 6. Thats what i’m most looking forward to. pic.twitter.com/liy3Crd0caDecember 4, 2023
So, yes, people are very excited. Type the letters GTA into a social media search bar or glance at any of the series' myriad subreddits and you'll find a sea of fans in ecstasy over Rockstar's long-anticipated reveal. «What the fuck are those in-game graphics,» reads a relatively measured and highly rated comment from Reddit user aweh_sassy, «it looks real.»
Other users pretty much echoed that sentiment in one way or another, at least when they weren't kvetching about that 2025 release date, including redrubies20, who turned to Cartoon Network edits to communicate their boundless excitement for the sudden reality of GTA 6.
The reaction from a lot of actual game devs was, well, pretty similar actually. Rami Ismail tweeted that he hadn't seen «such a realistic depiction of any real place on Earth» since Flight Sim 2020. Neil Druckmann, of Last of Us fame, called the trailer «jaw-dropping,» and added that «for someone who grew up in Miami… This feels eerily familiar.» I was curious if Hideo Kojima had tweeted anything in response to the trailer, given his own experience cutting trailers for his games, but he's mostly just been retweeting things about Léa Seydoux, which is fair enough.
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