After years of speculation and rumors, Rockstar is finally giving us a deeper official look at Grand Theft Auto 6. (Unlike the various unofficial looks we’ve been getting courtesy of a certain vegetable.)
The GTA 6 “Extended Look” airs Thursday, August 27 on Netflix at 12 pm PDT/3 pm EDT/8 pm BST. Six hours later, it’ll be available on Rockstar’s YouTube channel.
Rockstar has not said exactly what the video will entail, but we’re assuming we’ll see a good amount of gameplay and find out more about our two lead characters, Lucia and Jason. We’ll be responding live to the reveal in the blog feed below, cataloguing all the details and sharing reactions from around the web.
GTA 6 is due out on consoles on November 19. There’s frustratingly still no PC release date, and Rockstar is unlikely to speak on that anytime soon. Perhaps we’ll at least hear something about GTA Online, which has been conspicuously absent from the conversation so far.
What we’ve learned from the leaks
Ahead of the official GTA 6 reveal, someone who goes by “Cyberleek” has been releasing gameplay clips that apparently come from a build of the game they have continuous access to.
I assume there’s a control room somewhere in which suited lawyers are pointing at giant maps and saying “enhance,” but Rockstar hasn’t tracked down the leaker yet, and in the meantime, we’ve learned a lot about GTA 6’s gameplay.
Here are some of the big details, with the caveat that we can’t be sure exactly how recent Cyberleek’s build is:
There appears to be a morality system, a la Red Dead Redemption 2: During a particularly violent action by the player, a devil icon with a minus symbol appearsCars have gas meters, but refuelling looks easy (drive into a gas station, press a button)Another RDR2 similarity, we see at one point that Jason has the option to “greet” or “taunt” NPCs he encountersYour identity as it relates to police APBs is represented by three icons, which we’ve deduced probably refer to your clothing, face/hair, and carThe wanted level now goes to six stars, one more than it used toThere’s a stamina meter, and at one point we see Jason struggle with a driver during a carjacking, depleting the meterFull nudity: At one point the leaker wanders into a nudist party, and Rockstar withholds nothing
