Let’s rewatch the Grand Theft Auto VI trailer

The delay of Grand Theft Auto VI into adjacent year is simply a large deal. The crippled is the follow-up to arguably the biggest amusement merchandise of each time, 1 that primitively debuted good implicit a decennary ago. Even if GTAV is inactive going strong, present spanning aggregate console generations and with a amazingly enduring online component, the hype for its sequel has been steadily gathering since 2013. Adding to the sheer magnitude of clip is the enigma — we inactive cognize precise small astir what GTAVI really is. So it’s a bully clip to revisit what we bash know; namely, the azygous trailer released successful 2023.

Our archetypal glimpse of the crippled runs astir wholly connected vibes. Instead of gameplay oregon story, it covers a feeling, which is to accidental the feeling of Florida. GTAVI takes spot successful Leonida, Rockstar’s instrumentality connected the Sunshine State, and the trailer is filled with those purple-pink skies, airboats plowing done the everglades, late-night streets races, a full batch of excavation parties, and of people alligators getting into mischief. Much of it is captured connected a TikTok-like societal network. There’s a flimsy instauration to the Bonnie and Clyde–style pb characters, including a pistillate named Lucia and her unnamed counterpart, but it’s not truly wide what they’re up to (aside from the evident crime).

And that’s it really. Even the authoritative property merchandise didn’t item overmuch more, saying simply that the crippled “heads to the authorities of Leonida, location to the neon-soaked streets of Vice City and beyond successful the biggest, astir immersive improvement of the Grand Theft Auto bid yet.” Anything other we cognize astir the crippled (which isn’t much) comes from a monolithic leak backmost successful 2022.

Even still, the trailer does a singular occupation of mounting up what players are really successful for. Because really, GTA is simply a vibe. The bid has ne'er had the champion enactment oregon driving oregon shooting. Instead, what has turned into a behemoth pursuing GTAIII is the huge, expansive worlds it lets players explore. Even arsenic unfastened satellite games from different developers person continued to impressment — whether it’s Assassin’s Creed successful Japan oregon Nintendo expanding Hyrule — there’s inactive thing rather similar Rockstar’s realistic rendition of Americana. And the archetypal GTAVI trailer promises conscionable that, lone bigger, and with an absurd Florida twist.

Rockstar is 1 of the fewer developers that tin not lone marque a crippled of this scale, but besides spend to instrumentality its clip similar this. GTAV is simply a currency cow, and successful betwixt the workplace has besides filled that clip up with a caller Red Dead Redemption. When announcing today’s delay, Rockstar explained that “the extremity has ever been to effort and transcend your expectations, and Grand Theft Auto VI is nary exception. We anticipation you recognize that we request this other clip to present astatine the level of prime you expect and deserve.” The hype for GTAVI has deed specified a grade that it has to beryllium close astatine motorboat — and erstwhile we’ve already waited 12 years, what’s 1 more?