Grand Theft Auto VI's Long-Awaited 2nd Trailer Confirms Character Details
The decision to release the trailer this way, with little announcement or fanfare, may be a move designed to distract fans from the game's recent delay. Rockstar finally dropped the pretense of a "2025" release date and gave us an actual date: May 26th, 2026. That's more than a year away, but we have to say: the game looks damn good in this second trailer.
Less "music video" than the first trailer, this second trailer spends most of its time depicting main characters Jason and Lucia reuniting as the latter gets out of prison before the pair launch into what appears to be a legendary violent crime spree. The depiction of southern Florida is shockingly realistic and will be familiar to anyone from the region, or likely anywhere along the Gulf Coast; as a resident of the region between Houston and Louisiana, your author immediately felt at home.
Despite that the game clearly has a modern-day setting, there's plenty of retro throwback vibes in the trailer, from the vehicles and places on display to the music selections, including Wang Chung's "Everybody Have Fun Tonight" and Tammy Wynette's "Talking to Myself Again," both from the 1980s. GTA VI seems to depict a Vice City that can't move on from its glory days in decades past, which could be a theme in the game.
Despite the amazing visual fidelity on display, the trailer ends with the new release date as well as a note at the bottom that the footage was "Captured on PS5". Of course, most of the video consists of scripted sequences, but there are multiple portions that could certainly be gameplay. This is encouraging but perhaps not surprising; the PlayStation has been the series' first home since GTA III made "Grand Theft Auto" a household name on the PlayStation 2, and it's certainly the biggest platform that the game will premiere on when it releases next year.
No mention of Steam or any other PC store in the trailer, of course. PC gamers will likely be waiting until 2027 before they get to enjoy the next-gen "GTA" experience.
