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GTA 6 trailer reveals Rockstar’s next crime game at last

The official Grand Theft Auto 6 news you’ve been waiting for

Marco Wutz

GTA 6 trailer reveals Rockstar’s next crime game at last
GTA 6 trailer reveals Rockstar’s next crime game at last /

This is not a drill: Rockstar Games has dropped the first GTA 6 trailer, revealing the next iteration of its iconic Grand Theft Auto series – just as the developer promised last month. Well, almost as promised. Rockstar bumped the trailer release up a little earlier, after it leaked on Twitter.

You can watch the official GTA 6 trailer below:

Going by the trailer footage and how Rockstar tends to work, it’s unlikely that GTA’s core gameplay will be changed up all too drastically for the upcoming release. You’ll still be an underdog living the life of a criminal - two criminals, this time - as you try to stake your claim to money and fame in a mixture of RPG, shooter, and life sim. It's still unclear what your goal is and even who you are, aside from being an ex-con who gets out of jail and returns home. Even Rockstar's YouTube description gave nothing away, aside from the trailer song - Love Is A Long Road, by Tom Petty.

GTA 6 has been in development for several years at Rockstar and is probably the most highly anticipated game ever, but you'll have to wait a while longer to experience it for yourself.

Rockstar said GTA 6 won't release until 2025.

Its predecessor, GTA 5, was released in 2013 and has become one of the most successful video games of all time thanks to an endless tail of sales generating a steady influx of players even a decade after launch as well as the lucrative GTA Online mode, which handed Rockstar all the monetization levers of a live-service game.

We had to wait for this GTA 6 trailer for a long while, so it’s no wonder that an entire history of fake GTA 6 trailers and leaks came into being in the meantime. Just hours before the first official trailer dropped, a GTA 6 leak on TikTok was widely circulated. Let that be the final leak, real or fake, making the rounds: Fans finally have some 100% official footage to obsess over and read way too much into, so let the speculation and theorizing begin as every last pixel in this trailer gets analyzed and interpreted.

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Marco Wutz
MARCO WUTZ

Marco Wutz is a writer from Parkstetten, Germany. He has a degree in Ancient History and a particular love for real-time and turn-based strategy games like StarCraft, Age of Empires, Total War, Age of Wonders, Crusader Kings, and Civilization as well as a soft spot for Genshin Impact and Honkai: Star Rail. He began covering StarCraft 2 as a writer in 2011 for the largest German community around the game and hosted a live tournament on a stage at gamescom 2014 before he went on to work for Bonjwa, one of the country's biggest Twitch channels. He branched out to write in English in 2015 by joining tl.net, the global center of the StarCraft scene run by Team Liquid, which was nominated as the Best Coverage Website of the Year at the Esports Industry Awards in 2017. He worked as a translator on The Crusader Stands Watch, a biography in memory of Dennis "INTERNETHULK" Hawelka, and provided live coverage of many StarCraft 2 events on the social channels of tl.net as well as DreamHack, the world's largest gaming festival. From there, he transitioned into writing about the games industry in general after his graduation, joining GLHF, a content agency specializing in video games coverage for media partners across the globe, in 2021. He has also written for NGL.ONE, kicker, ComputerBild, USA Today's ForTheWin, The Sun, Men's Journal, and Parade. Email: marco.wutz@glhf.gg

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