Rockstar has released the first GTA 6 trailer early, after it leaked online this evening. The video confirms that GTA will launch in 2025, and shows off the game’s main characters – a Bonnie and Clyde-style couple who enter into a life of crime.
The 90-second clip had been due to launch tomorrow, but made its way onto the internet earlier than planned. It follows another GTA 6 video leak over the weekend.
“Our trailer has leaked so please watch the real thing on YouTube,” Rockstar wrote this evening in a post on X, formerly Twitter. Watch the first trailer for Grand Theft Auto 6 below.
The trailer begins with a sun-drenched look over the outskirts of Vice City, with bustling traffic on the roads, a jet plane overhead, and a skyline of skyscrapers just visible through the haze. Welcome back to Vice City, Rockstar’s version of Miami, now in the modern day.
Quickly we meet our first protagonist Lucia, a woman who begins the game’s story behind bars. She’s asked by a prison staff member if she understands why she’s been incarcerated. “Bad luck, I guess,” she responds.
Cut to Vice City beach, as motorboats tear through the waves while dozens of beachgoers lie under umbrellas. Beachfront property and palm trees gives way to skyscrapers beyond, while a plane pulls a banner making a 69 reference.
Quick camera shots show a hovercraft in a swamp, flamingoes, beachgoers in swimwear, speedboats in a container port, and a woman standing up in a convertible speeding down the freeway. Oh, and a strip club. This is all very GTA.
Our first look at the game at night gives a better sense of the city’s scale, with buildings stretching around its waterfront. Another shot shows roads leading away from the city across long bridges out to small islands.
Next we see slice-of-life moments presented as if on TikTok – a man battling an aligator in a swimming pool, a woman twerking atop a car, someone streaking at a gas station, a man grabbing his crotch during an altercation over bad driving…