After a long wait of 3,156 days since Grand Theft Auto 5 first appeared on PC, the Grand Theft Auto 6 trailer is finally here a day early, following a leak. Drink it in above.
The Grand Theft Auto 6 trailer is very much in keeping with the GTA 5 trailer from way back when: It's a tone-setter, heavy on vibes and short on any actual details about the game. It does, however, look like we'll be getting two protagonists, a «Bonnie & Clyde-inspired» criminal duo named Lucia and (according to leaks) Jason, as previously rumored. Whether both characters will be playable isn't confirmed at this point, but they definitely seem to have equal prominence.
Portions of the video emulate Instagram and TikTok-style social media posts, which could provide some interesting gameplay twists depending on how (or if) a social mechanic is integrated into the game, and of course there's an abundance of nice cars, scantily-clad women, glitter and grime, and bad behavior throughout. It is definitely a Grand Theft Auto trailer.
The official announcement for Grand Theft Auto 6, which appeared about an hour after the trailer went live, confirmed that the new game will be set in the Miami-inspired Vice City and surrounding environs: «Grand Theft Auto 6 heads to the state of Leonida, home to the neon-soaked streets of Vice City and beyond in the biggest, most immersive evolution of the Grand Theft Auto series yet.»
There's also this from the trailer, which is hard to overlook:
A less-obvious but nice touch is the song used in the trailer: Love is a Long Road is a track from the 1989 album Full Moon Fever, the first solo release from Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Tom Petty—and as brought to my attention by PC Gamer global editor-in-chief and apparent
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