- The release came 15 hours before developer Rockstar’s release after a low-quality copy circulated online.
- The 90-second teaser confirmed that the game will be set in the Miami-inspired Vice City and will feature a female protagonist named Lucia for the first time since the 1990s.
- The latest major game in the series is the sequel to 2013’s smash hit GTA V, which became the second best-selling video game of all time behind Minecraft.
There have been endless rumors and leaks about GTA VI over the past decade.
A trailer confirming that it was coming – an announcement if you will – was enough to spark global headlines in November as desperate fans searched for any information about the new game.
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The trailer shows people racing cars, partying on boats, and a man pulling an alligator out of a swimming pool, all to the American sounds of Tom Petty’s Love Is a Long Road.
Gamer Jess, known online as “Rage Darling,” usually streams multiplayer RPGs, but said she’s “keeping an eye” on the upcoming game.
“If you’re not at least intrigued by GTA, you’re a black sheep at this point because it’s so big,” he told BBC Newsbeat.
She said the series had “always been a man’s game,” but the new female perspective intrigued her.
Although it’s been a long time since GTA has had a female protagonist in a mainstream game — the last being the return of the PlayStation original — she thinks the outcome on the wider industry will be big.
The trailer gives fans a lot to chew on, with some questions still unanswered.
The most important of them is which consoles the game will be released on, as this information was not revealed in the video.
But, Take-two Interactive, that is publishing the sport, has introduced that GTA VI will launch on PlayStation 5 and Xbox series S/X when it releases in 2025.
There’s no further information on a release date or a possible PC version – if it follows the same pattern as previous games in the series, a PC release will follow.
Both GTA IV and V came out on PC months after their console launch.
Fans are also asking who voices the lead character Lucia, but the identity of the voice actor is still a mystery.
The new game took a long time to arrive, and James Binns, president of gaming media company Network N, said it could be explained by the absolute success of GTA V, which sold 190 million copies worldwide.
“It’s certainly one of the most important games in the international and it is alive right now with GTA online, an online recreation where you rob banks and build gangs,” he said.
“I mean, it’s been at the top of the Play charts most weeks now on Xbox, PlayStation and PC.
“They’ve spent over a billion dollars on this, so it’s going to be epic. It’ll be the most steeply-priced recreation ever made.”Earlier the gaming company’s president, Sam Houser, said the December release of the trailer coincided with its 25th anniversary.
Originally developed in Dundee in 1997 by DMA Design, then known as Rockstar North, GTA has been a critical and commercial success.
Questions were even asked inside the house of Lords approximately the violent content material of the primary game.
Rockstar also announced a deal with Netflix separately, bringing many of its titles to the streaming giant’s gaming offering.
GTA 3, Vice City and San Andreas — all beloved by gamers — will be available to Netflix subscribers on mobile devices on December 14.
