Earlier in the present day 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 instances 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 the way a lot arse it could characteristic.
When Rockstar shortly issued the official trailer, I watched it an extra ten instances or so to make the next observations. This one minute and thirty-one second artefact will likely be considered billions of instances within the coming days and weeks. Very many articles and movies will likely be written and filmed about it. Weird, arcane truths will likely be syphoned from it. Outlandish confirmations will likely be gleaned.Â
For now, here is simply what I considered it, and the issues it appears fairly apparent it is making an attempt to inform us.
[0:05] We meet protagonist Lucia
After some transient pink-drenched exterior photographs of a jail we meet inmate Lucia. In her jail scrubs Lucia is questioned by a jail authority: “Have you learnt why you are right here?”. To which she replies, “Dangerous luck, I suppose”. That is our protagonist: fated to a lifetime of crime, and brutally trustworthy 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 is no use emphasising how superior your engine tech or graphics are in 2023: it is a trendy blockbuster videogame. It is mainly a film trailer.
[0:12] Vice Metropolis, goofiness, buildings we might or might not be capable of enter
The digital camera pans over a busy city seashore. That is clearly Vice Metropolis (which is located within the state of Leonida, in response to 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 an organization known as Nine1Nine—perhaps accountable 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 fundamental concern was whether or not all these condo blocks appear to be buildings I can enter and discover within the ultimate 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, looking and ecotourism” (thanks Wikipedia). Fishing in all probability confirmed? I do not know. Airboats confirmed, although. Birds confirmed too, clearly.
[0:22] Chill seashore scene exhibits model new canine breed and an amphibious helicopter
The following handful of seconds provides method to some photographs of Vice Metropolis dwellers at play. The busy seashore scene has speedboats, a utility truck with a trailer connected (trailers confirmed!) a helicopter and, to the best of the helicopter, a Helicopter That Can Land On Water, formally referred to as an amphibious helicopter. This scene additionally confirms… new breeds of canine! That tiny mousy trying factor shouldn’t be among the many seven breeds of canines that seem in GTA 5.
[0:23] Some delicate felony infractions, some mood-setting streetscapes
Barely much less chill is the speedboat race depicted instantly after this seashore 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 lady standing in a dashing convertible within the subsequent scene. The highway indicators above level in the direction of Kelly County – VCI Airport (airport confirmed) and by way of Catalan Boulevard, Stockyard and Downtown. Other than the airport (there’s an airport in GTA: Vice Metropolis) none of those locations appear to instantly 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. But it surely’s the sheer density of the road life right here that I really like: take a look at the open air eating occurring to the far left of the shot.Â
[0:34] There is a DJ
Then there’s this DJ. DJs will likely 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 trustworthy, 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 will presumably be capable of commandeer these. General, photographs like this give a pleasant sense of how the outskirts of Vice Metropolis, the higher components of Leonida, will look.
Then we get a detailed take a look at a bikini-clad lady having fun with a rooftop occasion. 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 characteristic closely in GTA 6, as a result of quite a lot 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 publish, printed by DadBodSquad. I am guessing the previous straw hat man is the sugar daddy they usually’re his sugar infants (my analytical prowess: confirmed?).
After that the OfficialPoach account—we do not know what the social media platform is named 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 friends earlier than the pool occasion”.Â
Subsequent we get a vertical orientation shot of a lady twerking on the roof of a shifting automotive. 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 occasion, full with dangerously drifting muscle vehicles and revellers dancing on rooftops. There is a dwell stream of this road occasion, with a remark feed that mirrors actuality, within the sense that not one of the feedback are very helpful or illustrative of something.
In all probability 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 in my opinion: I believed it was FMV. Perhaps it’s? Take a look at the plastic on that rest room paper!Â
[0:49] Some SWAT guys breaching a constructing
First particular person footage of some cops busting down a door. Appears to be like actually good. Undecided 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 laborious 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 exhibiting a near-naked particular person with a giant bum being chased by a police. There is a petrol station within the background and a few rattling good puddles. Puddle watchers will likely be on the alert.
GeneralCustardCannon posts: “Solely in Leonida is a crotch seize an apology for dangerous driving”. Accompanying vid exhibits a burly tatted man in a singlet performing aforementioned gesture. Undoubtedly of a redneck persuasion. It is occurring 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 shifting automotive.
This subsequent shot is a detailed second fave. An older bald man carrying a visor, stands in his entrance yard—seen to the highway—hosing his backyard. He is mainly bare save a g-string and, weirdly, sneakers with socks. Get some sandals, bruv.Â
I do not love this shot due to the previous 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 pageant, lathered in mud. The footage is flippantly watermarked with a brand 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 dwell footage captured by “LuchaLibreFan”, of a lady 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, “Nicely, look who’s again”.
[0:58] Man falls on desk
This very transient scene exhibits a man at an open air occasion (perhaps the identical ThrillBilly hoedown?). He is launched onto a trestle desk filled with drinks. He breaks the desk. Undecided 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 target 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 manner we’re gonna get via that is by sticking collectively,” she says, “being a crew”.Â
Whereas Lucia says all this we see a montage of chaos: the gradual burn of the reveal’s begin has given away to the mayhem of 2020s America. Dwell Weazel information footage exhibits the aftermath of an intense police pursuit. Hordes of masked dust 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 transient 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, probably lovers. They share the phrases “belief”. Then, throughout the ultimate 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 towards consuming within the retailer (for security causes!).Â
General, looks as if a fairly candy videogame. GTA 6 will launch in 2025, however solely PlayStation 5 and Xbox Collection X/S variations have been introduced right now, which doubtless implies that the PC model will launch someday after it comes out on consoles. For Pink Useless Redemption 2, it took a 12 months. Boo.Â