What have we learned from Grand Theft Auto 6's second trailer?

Just erstwhile you'd travel to presumption with the information that Grand Theft Auto 6 had been delayed until adjacent year, Rockstar Games goes and drops a marque caller trailer.

Last week, the video crippled developer announced the crippled had been pushed backmost to May 2026, shocking fans who were expecting it to onshore this autumn.

It's been 12 years since the past GTA crippled was released, and the agelong hold for the astir anticipated sequel of each clip conscionable became adjacent much agonising.

But earlier, the institution released a new, three-minute trailer, giving anxious players a stack of caller accusation to dissect successful the meantime.

Here are immoderate of the highlights.

The record-breaking archetypal trailer for GTA 6, published online successful precocious 2023, introduced players to protagonists Jason and Lucia - a mates who unrecorded a beingness of transgression successful Leonida, the fictional US authorities wherever the crippled is set.

We present cognize a spot much astir their backstory.

The new trailer opens with Jason doing unusual jobs earlier driving astir Vice City - the Miami-inspired determination from the 2002 PlayStation 2 game.

According to Rockstar, Jason was a troubled teen who joined the service to flight his atrocious influences, but fell backmost into transgression aft returning home.

In the trailer helium yet collects Lucia from prison, wherever she has been serving clip for "protecting her family".

From there, the clip launches into a montage of enactment sequences, romanticist scenes and glimpses of the game's wider world.

We spot the mates carrying retired equipped heists, partying connected a yacht and riding a jetski together.

According to a statement connected Rockstar's website, the 2 privation to forge a caller beingness unneurotic but are plunged into "the mediate of a conspiracy" aft an "easy people goes wrong".

Players besides got to enactment names to faces of immoderate of game's wider cast, including slope robber Raul Bautista, smuggler Brian Heder and rap combo Real Dimez.

Like GTA 5, which was heavy based connected Los Angeles and its surrounding areas, the sequel besides appears to incorporate close recreations of immoderate of Florida's astir celebrated landmarks.

Vice City's mentation of Miami's creation deco, neon-lit beachfront appears successful the trailer, arsenic does the Grassrivers swampland, inspired by the Florida everglades.

Rockstar besides revealed the Leonida Keys, the concern Ambrosia region, sleazy Port Gellhorn and the mountainous Kalaga National Park.

In each case, it suggested the areas would beryllium location to antithetic groups and factions, from "hillbilly mystics" to biker gangs.

The trailer did not look to see immoderate gameplay footage, but was made up of cinematic sequences usually seen betwixt communicative missions.

But fans were speedy to praise the game's next-generation graphics successful the trailer and a series of screenshots published by Rockstar.

Video crippled trailers are sometimes created utilizing almighty PCs but a enactment astatine the extremity of the trailer said the scenes successful it were taken from a PlayStation 5 console.

But that doesn't reply questions astir caller ways of interacting with the game's world, oregon whether players tin power betwixt characters on-the-fly arsenic they could successful GTA 5.

The hype astir GTA 6 is huge, and Rockstar has signifier for delaying its games and a estimation for perfectionism.

When it announced the hold past week it told fans it needed other clip to "deliver astatine the level of prime you expect and deserve".

According to Bloomberg writer Jason Schreier, the hold was to besides to debar "crunch" - a gaming manufacture word for enforced overtime.

The institution was antecedently criticised by immoderate unit implicit the signifier - it accepted that immoderate worked "long hours" but said immoderate accounts were exaggerated.

When GTA 6's hold was announced, shares successful Rockstar's genitor company, Take Two Interactive, dropped by 10%.

The manufacture was banking connected the crippled - which volition initially beryllium disposable lone connected Xbox and PlayStation 5 - to boost console income and interruption bundle income records.

However, having a steadfast day of 26 May 2026 for GTA 6 means that different publishers tin present debar releasing their ain games astatine the aforesaid time.