Grand Theft Auto 6’s first trailer this week is simply 90 seconds lengthy, however analyzing its hidden particulars and Easter eggs already appears to be a full-time job for some followers.
The trailer has racked up over 142 million views in only a week, and already hundreds of posts are dissecting it for transient glimpses of issues others have missed. Listed here are just a few of our favorites that you could be not have seen but.
South Seaside is hopping in Vice Metropolis
The trailer made it clear that GTA 6 is making a severe effort to keep away from the relative vacancy of GTA’s earlier cities. Each shot, whether or not seaside or boulevard and even the open ocean, is filled with autos, individuals, animals and objects.
Take this shot based mostly on Ocean Drive in South Seaside, which exhibits a density of vehicles, pedestrians and different interactable options. In case you zoom in on the panhandler sitting subsequent to the street, you may see an iguana on his shoulder.
There’s additionally a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it reference to Lance Vance’s sartorial model—we assume it is not likely him, since he died in GTA: Vice Metropolis. However on the sidewalk on the left aspect, there is a determine in shadow along with his construct sporting his signature white go well with and purple shirt.
The cops have stepped up their fleets
Police forces in earlier GTA video games have often proven off a brand new sedan in a cutscene or trailer, however in-game, it is just about the identical mannequin chosen for that recreation, on a regular basis. (The unique GTA: Vice Metropolis had the Portsmouth cruisers based mostly on the Plymouth Reliant, for instance.)
In distinction, the GTA 6 trailer has half a dozen totally different fashions, previous and new, with lifelike badging based mostly on Miami-area municipalities. The truth that a minimum of a few of these scenes look like rendered in-game makes us assume that as you rack up needed stars, you are going to see much more selection screaming up behind you. And extra police fashions in your tail additionally means extra you’ll be able to steal… they usually’re at all times one of the best vehicles within the recreation.
Does that automotive have a usable trunk?
People have been oohing and aahing on Reddit in regards to the detailed vehicles within the trailer, declaring the duct tape that is holding on the inside deal with on a automotive with its door open for instance. One attention-grabbing element is a automotive’s popped rear hatch in a single scene. In earlier leaked gameplay, the implication was that GTA’s automotive storage is perhaps used for heists and the like. Is that this a nod towards the power to retailer objects—clothes, weapons, and so forth—as you’ll be able to in your horse in Pink Lifeless Redemption 2?
The advertisements all through the trailer for vinyl firms, and the sight of a automotive with a raised suspension in a locale based mostly on the real-life Wynwood artwork district, has made people speculate that more-detailed automotive customization is perhaps a factor this time round, as properly.
Zoom in wherever, see one thing new
One of many issues that makes the scenes within the trailer look so real looking is the completely packed quantity of element on practically each floor—and there are a number of surfaces. Intricate textures in every single place are the secret within the GTA 6 trailer:
- Tank tops with these vertical fabric strains whenever you zoom in
- Work with detailed brush-stroke and canvas textures
- Chip baggage with lifelike wrinkles
- The loops and dips in energy and knowledge cables as they connect with the poles (which have random stickers, and birds that perch on them)
- Accurately styled road lights and freeway indicators for South Florida
- Sand on the toes of the individuals on the seaside
- Moss hanging from the barbed wire on the jail
- The cat’s eye street reflectors mirror gentle in evening scenes
- Liquor bottles on cabinets with liquor in them
- Actual reflections in automotive aspect view mirrors
It is all somewhat nuts. Apparently the Rockstar artists have, in truth, been engaged on the sport over the previous decade.
There’s rather a lot occurring down within the Keys
Builders needed to incorporate their very own model of the Florida Keys in Grand Theft Auto: Vice Metropolis as “Gator Keys,” nevertheless it was minimize. This time the trailer clearly exhibits the Keys and the distinctive Rickenbacker Causeway bridge resulting in them, and there is a lot occurring in that shot.
Zoom in and you may see dolphins within the water, tons of small boats and yachts right here and in different ocean areas, some fairly unimaginable potential stunt leap areas on the previous bridge/fishing pier alongside it with its breaks within the street, and is {that a} blimp within the high of the body? (Please let or not it’s a blimp—I used to be a complete fan of the controllable Atomic Blimp over Los Santos in GTA 5, and blimps have been added to GTA On-line just a few years again, too.)
Different airborne enjoyable within the advert contains the banner-towing planes over Vice Metropolis’s model of South Seaside—the membership announcement you’ll be able to see within the trailer (“Nine1Nine: Why Sixty 9 When You Can 9 1 9”) is a reference to the favored, actual South Seaside hangout E11even, which employs comparable plane-hauled promoting in actual life.
Is that correct water physics we spy?
A number of photographs within the trailer present what seems to be new physics for interplay with water. Take a look at the flamingos taking off at :21, or the speedboats at :23, or the monster truck plowing by muddy water in a single body at :50 and once more at :56. That is water really being displaced by shifting objects, which is a stage of sophistication we have not seen in a GTA earlier than.
That additionally implies that we’ll spend extra time within the water, and seeing so many interactable-looking boats, yachts, water animals (take a look at that throwback shark!) and beachfront, I am unable to wait.
Tom Petty songs and GTA go approach again
Florida native Tom Petty’s “Love is a Lengthy Street” is the soundtrack of the GTA 6 trailer, a stunning alternative for a contemporary-set recreation. Petty launched “Love is a Lengthy Street” in 1989 as a part of his first solo album, Full Moon Fever. He died in 2017 from an unintentional overdose of ache medicine after fracturing his hip.
This is not the primary time Petty’s had a music in a GTA, although: The artist cherished having “Runnin’ Down a Dream”—arguably one of the best driving music ever made—in GTA: San Andreas, his property stated in a press release.
“Lengthy Street” is a nod to the connection of the pair within the trailer, maybe winks on the 10 years of improvement time (not over but!) on GTA 6, and exhibits its energy as successful in its personal proper. Although it was solely the B aspect to “Free Fallin’,” Petty’s largest hit ever, “Lengthy Street” surged 8,000 p.c in streaming recognition after the GTA trailer hit, Billboard wrote. It additionally noticed a 37,000 p.c enhance in Spotify streams, in line with the New York Instances, and was searched a quarter-million instances on Shazam inside 24 hours. It soared to #2 on the Apple iTunes checklist, simply after Mariah Carey’s “All I Need for Christmas Is You.”
Petty stated when he wrote the music, one of many final on the album, that he was impressed by the sound of shifting gears on a bike when creating the distinctive chords. It will be good for lengthy drives on these Vice Metropolis highways. When the couple within the trailer kick within the doorways to the comfort retailer, there’s a “Petty Without end” bumper sticker on the glass, within the precise colours of the Full Moon Fever cowl.
The trailer’s pretend social media posts are based mostly on real-life Florida Males (and Ladies)
We have written about this individually, however practically each scene-setting shot delivered through satirical social media within the GTA 6 trailer is an homage to real-life social media trenders in Miami. That lady twerking on the roof of the automotive, the double-hammer-wielding housewife, the Joker-esque tattoo man, countless references to gators invading companies and residential swimming pools—all exist in the true world.
In brief, the Grand Theft Auto 6 trailer packs a ridiculous quantity of element into 90 seconds. The dangerous information is that we’ll have to attend till a minimum of 2025 to play it ourselves—and doubtless longer for the PC model.
