In one of the most exciting video game announcements in a while, Rockstar Games has confirmed that Grand Theft Auto 6 is not only in development – we’ll actually see the first trailer next month!
The video game publisher, who also has the company’s 25th anniversary to celebrate next month, shared:
We are very excited to let you know that in early December, we will release the first trailer for the next Grand Theft Auto. We look forward to many more years of sharing these experiences with all of you.
This is big. I mean, the last GTA game – Grand Theft Auto 5 – came out back in 2013, and in under 24 hours it became the world’s fastest-selling game, pulling in $800 million! Now, 190 million copies have been sold.
And, well… 10 years. That’s a long time for hungry fans to wait. I mean, they’re surely going to be champing at the bit for this!
The popular video game company shared a chain of posts on X, including the following:
In 1998, Rockstar Games was founded on the idea that video games could come to be as essential to culture as any other form of entertainment, and we hope that we have created games you love in our efforts to be part of that evolution. Thanks to the incredible support of our players worldwide, we have had the opportunity to create games we are truly passionate about.
What we know so far
So, what can we expect from Grand Theft Auto 6? We don’t have a huge amount of information as it stands, but according to an incredibly early leak of gameplay videos, it’ll be set in Vice City – basically Miami but in the GTA universe.
It’s a location that’s been previously explored in 2002’s Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, but in an ’80s setting – could be some great opportunities for revisiting areas and finding Easter eggs, no?
Also doing the rounds are reports that GTA 6 is set to tell a modern-day, Bonnie and Clyde-inspired story featuring two main characters; Jason and Lucia – which, if true, will see the first female lead playable protagonist in the main game. And about bloody time, too!
Here’s what Pologon had to say about the leak in question, via their blog:
In 2022, more than 90 videos of the in-development version of Grand Theft Auto 6 were published online at the message board GTAForums. The hacker responsible claimed to have accessed the videos — some 50 minutes in total footage — directly from Rockstar Games’ internal Slack.
The videos show robberies, gunplay, open-world driving, a police chase, a crowded nightclub scene, and conversations with full voice acting. The game footage was clearly not intended to be shown publicly, with debug programming elements visible on-screen at the time.
One of the longer videos showed the female player character robbing a diner, as well as threatening staff and customers, who react in fear to having a gun pulled on them. Then she and her male accomplice get in a shootout with police before jumping in the police patrol car and driving off. The game’s graphical treatment is quite realistic, but still consistent with GTA games’ style.
That all sounds fairly promising, although a little upsetting that Rockstar Games had to deal with a leak of that magnitude.
What do you think of this news? Will you be rushing out to buy your copy of Grand Theft Auto 6?
I’m personally excited for it, but I have a growing pile of games I just don’t have the time to play, and will more likely enjoy watching my partner Murdo experience this whilst I write blogs and draw stuff (which is my problem, no-one elses!).
Source: GeekTyrant
Take part in the conversations on the site and leave a comment below.
