Rockstar releases GTA VI trailer; return to Vice City, Female Protagonist; 2025 release confirmed

The long-awaited trailer for the next entry into one of the most successful video game series, Grand Theft Auto VI, has finally been released. Originally due to showcased on Rockstar’s official Youtube channel, due to a twitter leak, the trailer premiered a few hours early.

The trailer confirms many of the rumours initially surrounding the game’s features, such as the first ever playable female protagonist of the series, and a return to Vice city for the first time since 2003’s GTA: Vice City Stories on the PlayStation Portable.

The trailer opens up with picturesque shots of the sun drenched Floridian landscape, with bustling traffic, and wildlife, and immediately we are introduced to the protagonist, Lucia, who is shown to be serving a prison sentence. The trailer also included a spoof of popular social media platform TikTok and showcased the tropical wildlife found in Miami such as alligators and flamingoes.

From the trailer it can be conferred that the game’s plot line will involve Lucia and her currently unnamed romantic partner in a Bonnie and Clyde style narrative where they rob small-time businesses such as liquor stores and county banks, eventually escalating to large scale drug peddling. It continues the previous entries’ theme of small time criminals eventually hoping to make it big in the notorious scene.

Here’s what else we know so far:

The series will follow the story of Lucia and her currently unnamed partner in a type of Bonnie and Clyde inspired narrative

The game is set in Miami-inspired Vice City, marking a much anticipated return to the Florida-based fictional setting first introduced in 2002’s GTA: Vice City

The in-game map is rumoured to be twice the size of its predecessor, GTA V’s Los Santos, which was based on Los Angeles and its surrounding areas.

According to Rockstar, development on the game started in 2014, one year after the release of GTA V, though the company has been fairly quiet on the game’s development status, merely stating that the game was in active development on community update in February 2022.

Its predecessor, GTA V, is one of the best selling video games of all time, having sold over 190 million copies across 3 generations of consoles.

GTA VI is set to be released somewhere in 2025 on the PS5 and Xbox Series X, finally marking an end to the strenuous 10-year long wait for gamers everywhere.