Rockstar has just officially released the GTA VI » Vortex trailer

Rockstar developers responded to the leak of the anticipated Grand Theft Auto VI trailer and decided to release the official version fifteen long hours before it was planned. See in full resolution what the new GTA will look like. The trailer introduces the main characters, the city, beautiful graphics and promises a release in 2025.

Before we get into the trailer itself, first of all, it needs some context that goes into Rockstar’s plan and the whole mood surrounding the release of the trailer, which has been slowly looking forward to the whole internet. Shortly before midnight, a low-resolution video with a significant “watermark” appeared on the Internet without the authorization of the developers and, as expected, began to spread very quickly. The fact that the video clearly did not represent what the authors themselves wanted to present with great fanfare apparently led to the only logical step – that is, speeding up the release of the official version. However, the details of the leak and evaluating Rockstar’s response have to take a back seat as the trailer is out and everyone can now scrutinize it.

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As hinted on Monday night, the video is 91 seconds long and shows more of the game than I was hoping for. Everything begins with a look at Lucia, apparently one half of the central duo of heroes, but she is in prison and the probation officer is apparently discussing with her the circumstances of her possible release. After all, this would not be a new premise for GTA, but with the difference that Lucia will later join her partner Jason. His name was not mentioned in the trailer, but taking into account that at least half of the earlier speculations are true, we will probably witness a hinted story in the spirit of Bonnie and Clyde in GTA VI. Lucia meets the supposed Jason only at the end of the video, but it is clear that they are not united only by the desire to rob.

However, the middle part of the video focuses on a fairly detailed look at Vice City, where the game will take place. The trailer neither confirms nor refutes the speculation that there will be three cities together plus a few smaller ones, but apparently the largest city confirms its identity from the opening shots. However, if you still have doubts, road signs and other labels will undoubtedly convince you. What can be said about the graphics, except that it is significantly better than the previous, ten-year-old part? Some moments seem almost photorealistic, but in other shots there is also an admitted grotesqueness of the whole experience, and for example the animation of people running on the beach confirms this impression. The next shots are one big uncontrolled party and it’s hard to say what actually caused this rampage.

People stick their asses out, live the life™, swim in pools, pull alligators out of them, admire their own and other people’s motorcycles, stick their asses out while sitting on the roof of a moving car, skid at an intersection, get pacified by the police, hold onto their naturals, sprinkle garden in thongs, rolling in the mud and hammers in hand defending their plots. In other words, it will probably work in GTA VI again to do absolutely everything, and we’re not mentioning, of course, driving cars, airplanes, the aforementioned motorbikes and whatnot. However, at around the one minute mark, there is an important reveal of what seems to be behind it all and what part of the story may revolve around. According to the billboard, it is Angstipan, which is supposed to “treat emotions”, which in the case of a twisted scenario and malicious intentions of the producers of this played may have resulted in that rampage in the streets.

Be that as it may, in the closing seconds the video cuts back to the main pair of heroes, who with scarves over their mouths raid a convenience store, fleeing wildly in the old muscle chastise, they experience intimate moments in a motel room and then again raid another convenience store. A cut to the logo and a promise that the game will arrive in 2025. Nothing more, but definitely nothing less.