Earlier immediately a now-deleted X account leaked the official GTA 6 reveal trailer, practically a full day forward of its scheduled premiere. I watched it about 4 occasions in its leaked format: very low-res and with “BUY $BTC” superimposed over the center. I believed it seemed fairly good even then, although I used to be as but unprepared for a way a lot arse it will function.
When Rockstar rapidly issued the official trailer, I watched it an additional ten occasions or so to make the next observations. This one minute and thirty-one second artefact shall be considered billions of occasions within the coming days and weeks. Very many articles and movies shall be written and filmed about it. Weird, arcane truths shall be syphoned from it. Outlandish confirmations shall be gleaned.Â
For now, here is simply what I thought of it, and the issues it appears fairly apparent it is attempting to inform us.
[0:05] We meet protagonist Lucia
After some temporary pink-drenched exterior photographs of a jail we meet inmate Lucia. In her jail scrubs Lucia is questioned by a jail authority: “Are you aware why you are right here?”. To which she replies, “Unhealthy luck, I assume”. That is our protagonist: fated to a lifetime of crime, and brutally sincere about it.
An fascinating tonal shift for a GTA reveal trailer. GTA 5 opened with a pleasing collage of all of the enjoyable stuff Los Santos has at its disposal. GTA 4’s opened with ominous footage of Liberty Metropolis’s then remarkably lifelike city cityscape. GTA 6’s reveal trailer tells a special story. There isn’t any use emphasising how superior your engine tech or graphics are in 2023: it is a fashionable blockbuster videogame. It is mainly a film trailer.
[0:12] Vice Metropolis, goofiness, buildings we might or might not have the ability to enter
The digicam pans over a busy city seaside. That is clearly Vice Metropolis (which is located within the state of Leonida, in accordance with Rockstar’s official PR). A distant airborne marquee advert asks “why sixty-nine when you possibly can 9 1 9?” Presumably that is an advert for a corporation known as Nine1Nine—possibly chargeable for the manufacturing of masturbation aides? Regardless of the case: non-subtle allusions to sexual acts confirmed. That is GTA, with all of the goofiness that entails.
I’ve to admit, watching this 5 second interstitial shot of the cityscape, my most important concern was whether or not all these condo blocks appear to be buildings I can enter and discover within the remaining sport. Inconceivable to inform.Â
[0:19] There are airboats
After the tantalising pan of Vice Metropolis’s skyline we get, in contrast, some yellow-hued footage of an airboat coursing alongside a clearing in some marshy wetlands. Airboats confirmed! Simply in case you are questioning what they’re, they’re “flat-bottomed watercraft propelled by an air-craft kind propeller” that are “generally used for fishing, bowfishing, searching and ecotourism” (thanks Wikipedia). Fishing in all probability confirmed? I do not know. Airboats confirmed, although. Birds confirmed too, clearly.
[0:22] Chill seaside scene reveals model new canine breed and an amphibious helicopter
The following handful of seconds provides approach to some photographs of Vice Metropolis dwellers at play. The busy seaside scene has speedboats, a utility truck with a trailer connected (trailers confirmed!) a helicopter and, to the precise of the helicopter, a Helicopter That Can Land On Water, formally generally known as an amphibious helicopter. This scene additionally confirms… new breeds of canine! That tiny mousy wanting factor shouldn’t be among the many seven breeds of canine that seem in GTA 5.
[0:23] Some delicate legal infractions, some mood-setting streetscapes
Barely much less chill is the speedboat race depicted immediately after this seaside scene, the place legal guidelines are virtually definitely being damaged. One ought to absolutely not velocity in packs so near container ships. Barely much less unlawful, however nonetheless in all probability unlawful, is the girl standing in a dashing convertible within the subsequent scene. The highway indicators above level in direction of Kelly County – VCI Airport (airport confirmed) and by way of Catalan Boulevard, Stockyard and Downtown. Except for the airport (there’s an airport in GTA: Vice Metropolis) none of those locations appear to immediately reference anyplace particular from older depictions of VC.
The temper montage continues with a bonnet view drive down a busy suburban road, an inside shot of a crowded and salacious bar, a man with dreads and ostentatious necklaces greeting his bro, after which, a stunning birds eye view of a elaborate satellite tv for pc neighbourhood (seen right here: tennis courts, a luxurious yacht).Â
It is the subsequent scene that excites me: downtown Vice Metropolis, bespeckled in neon, lined with stunt-ready sports activities vehicles to rob on the press of a button—all very thrilling. However it’s the sheer density of the road life right here that I really like: try the open air eating taking place to the far left of the shot.Â
[0:34] There is a DJ
Then there’s this DJ. DJs shall be in GTA 6.
[0:36] The final moments of peace
Here is one other a kind of traditional trailer photographs that YouTubers (and let’s be sincere, PC gaming web sites) dine out on. The trick racing potential alongside that proper hand retaining wall is exceptionally excessive, I really feel. However take a look at that smaller container boat to the slight left of the centre of the picture. You may presumably have the ability to commandeer these. Total, photographs like this give a pleasant sense of how the outskirts of Vice Metropolis, the better components of Leonida, will look.
Then we get a detailed take a look at a bikini-clad lady having fun with a rooftop get together. Then a time lapse shot of an indication that claims “VICE”.Â
Oh man, that is the place it begins to get hectic. Social media will function closely in GTA 6, as a result of lots of time is spent on it on this trailer. The primary shot is of some bozo on a yacht with a straw hat, standing subsequent to the American flag. A bunch of revellers cheer on. “Ay Papi! Avoid wasting sugar child for the remainder of us!” reads the accompanying textual content within the social media put up, printed by DadBodSquad. I am guessing the outdated straw hat man is the sugar daddy and so they’re his sugar infants (my analytical prowess: confirmed?).
After that the OfficialPoach account—we do not know what the social media platform known as but—posts a video of a man fishing a crocodile out of a yard pool (crocodiles confirmed). The accompanying textual content: “Keep Alert VC! Bear in mind to examine for uninvited company earlier than the pool get together”.Â
Subsequent we get a vertical orientation shot of a girl twerking on the roof of a transferring automobile. That is posted by the account have.a.vice.day, with the accompanying textual content: “Somebody name the division of transport on this dumptruck #have.a.vice.day”. The dumptruck talked about is an allusion to the ass being twerked. That is GTA humour, for you.
Then we get footage of an impromptu road get together, full with dangerously drifting muscle vehicles and revellers dancing on rooftops. There is a stay stream of this road get together, with a remark feed that mirrors actuality, within the sense that not one of the feedback are very helpful or illustrative of something.
Most likely my favorite second within the trailer. A crocodile saunters into a restaurant. The second is captured by CCTV. This half is probably the most graphically spectacular for my part: I believed it was FMV. Perhaps it’s? Have a look at the plastic on that rest room paper!Â
[0:49] Some SWAT guys breaching a constructing
First individual footage of some cops busting down a door. Seems to be actually good. Unsure if this confirms first-person view at launch, as a result of it is bodycam footage. Just like the CCTV above, it appears to be like lifelike due to the video filter. Kinda onerous to take a screenshot of this second as a result of it is too blurry.
PlanetLeonidaMan posts “often gotta hit the strip membership to see jiggle like that fr”, alluding to the accompanying video displaying a near-naked individual with an enormous bum being chased by a police. There is a petrol station within the background and a few rattling good puddles. Puddle watchers shall be on the alert.
GeneralCustardCannon posts: “Solely in Leonida is a crotch seize an apology for unhealthy driving”. Accompanying vid reveals a burly tatted man in a singlet performing aforementioned gesture. Positively of a redneck persuasion. It is taking place alongside a freeway resulting in Vice Seashores, Port VC/KEys, and the airport once more. I really like the backdrop of this second: a bleak wasteland of spaghetti junctions and distributor roads. A roadside billboard we solely see a little bit of alludes to panty sniffing. GTA is again yeah.
Then YoMammazJammer posts “RIP Rudi – C U in heaven, cuz,” accompanied by the seemingly irrelevant footage of a man being harmful in a transferring automobile.
This subsequent shot is a detailed second fave. An older bald man sporting a visor, stands in his entrance yard—seen to the highway—hosing his backyard. He is mainly bare save a g-string and, weirdly, footwear with socks. Get some sandals, bruv.Â
I do not love this shot due to the outdated man. I really like the verdancy of his backyard, which he clearly takes care of very properly. After that we see some revellers at what seems to be a truck competition, lathered in mud. The footage is calmly watermarked with a emblem studying ThrillBilly Mud Membership. Mud golf equipment confirmed. The lady within the shot holds up two satan horned fingers and sticks her tongue out. She’s in all probability wasted.Â
Then there’s stay footage captured by “LuchaLibreFan”, of a girl holding two hammers. Presumably poised to assault or defend with them. She’s standing outdoors what seems to be a strip motel, and the cement beneath her is superbly rugged and lifeline. She says, “Effectively, look who’s again”.
[0:58] Man falls on desk
This very temporary scene reveals a man at an open air get together (possibly the identical ThrillBilly hoedown?). He is launched onto a trestle desk filled with drinks. He breaks the desk. Unsure why we’re proven this. It appears to be like cool although.
[1:00] We meet Lucia’s sidekick and companion/lover
Lastly we’re again to the main focus level of this GTA 6 reveal trailer: the story. Lucia is within the passenger seat subsequent to a man who she’s presumably shut with. “The one method we’re gonna get via that is by sticking collectively,” she says, “being a workforce”.Â
Whereas Lucia says all this we see a montage of chaos: the sluggish burn of the reveal’s begin has given away to the mayhem of 2020s America. Stay Weazel information footage reveals the aftermath of an intense police pursuit. Hordes of masked filth bike fanatics parade down a dusty suburban road (there’s an ATV right here too). A closely tatted man in scrubs seems on a Spanish-language information broadcast, accompanied by the textual content:
Confession written in ink (for tattoos)
A neck tattoo that gave himself away, key to the conviction of a Leonida man
After this temporary montage Lucia and her as-yet-unnamed companion are masked, roaming the aisles of a small narrow-corridor store they’re presumably aspiring to rob. Then they’re making a fast getaway, after which they’re collectively in a motel room. This shot confirms that they are very shut, presumably lovers. They share the phrases “belief”. Then, in the course of the remaining second of the trailer, they’re storming a roadside store with pistols aloft. An indication on the door reads “We’ll now not settle for money saved in underwear”. One other warns in opposition to ingesting within the retailer (for security causes!).Â
Total, looks as if a fairly candy videogame. GTA 6 will launch in 2025, however solely PlayStation 5 and Xbox Sequence X/S variations have been introduced presently, which doubtless implies that the PC model will launch someday after it comes out on consoles. For Purple Lifeless Redemption 2, it took a 12 months. Boo.Â