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6Grand Theft Auto VI is an upcoming action-adventure game in development by Rockstar Games. It is due to be the eighth main Grand Theft Auto game, following Grand Theft Auto V (2013), and the sixteenth entry overall. Set within the fictional open world state of Leonida (based on Florida) and its Miami-inspired Vice City, the story is expected to follow criminal duo Lucia and her male partner.[a]
Following years of speculation, Rockstar confirmed in February 2022 that the game was in development.
Setting and characters
Grand Theft Auto VI is an action-adventure game set in the fictional open world state of Leonidaβbased on Floridaβwhich includes Vice City, a fictional version of Miami.[1][2][3] Vice City was previously featured in Grand Theft Auto (1997) and as the main setting of Grand Theft Auto: Vice City (2002) and Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories (2006).[4][5][6] The game follows a criminal duo: Lucia, the series' first female protagonist since 2000,[b] and her male partner;[a] the first trailer depicts Lucia as a prison inmate, and later evading custody with her partner.[2][13]
Development
Following Grand Theft Auto V's 2013 release, Rockstar North's then-president Leslie Benzies said the company had "some ideas" for the series' next entry.[14] In 2018, The Know reported the game, code-named Project Americas, would be set primarily in Vice City and partly in South America with a female protagonist.[15] In 2020, journalist Jason Schreier reported the game was "early in development" as "a moderately sized release" that would expand over time, to avoid its predecessors' developer crunch.[16] In 2021, Tom Henderson claimed the game's map could evolve akin to Fortnite Battle Royale.[17][18] In 2022, Schreier reported the game entered development in 2014 and would feature two Bonnie and Clyde-inspired protagonists, including a Latina woman, and claimed the developers were cautiously subverting the series' trend of joking about marginalised groups.[19][20]
The game became highly anticipated in the years before its announcement,[21][22][23] and journalists noted some fans became frustrated by Rockstar Games's continued silence, particularly after they announced a re-release of Grand Theft Auto V in 2020.[24][25][26] An individual referencing the game received media attention for interrupting several live stage and television shows.[27][28][29] On 4 February 2022, Rockstar confirmed development was "well underway".[30] In July, Rockstar announced Red Dead Online would not receive more major updates as development resources were withdrawn to focus on the upcoming game;[31] industry sources stated Rockstar reallocated resources after planned remasters of Grand Theft Auto IV (2008) and Red Dead Redemption (2010) were paused due to the backlash received by Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy β The Definitive Edition (2021).[32]
In November 2023, Rockstar president Sam Houser announced the first trailer would release in early December to celebrate the company's 25th anniversary.[33][34] Within five hours, the announcement on X surpassed two previous posts about the game to become the platform's most-liked gaming-related post,[35][36][37] later surpassed by Rockstar's post announcing the trailer's 5 December release date, with 1.8 million likes in 24 hours.[38] Other developers imitated the announcement's formatting to promote their trailers.[39][40][12] On 4 December, a low-quality version of the trailer was leaked on X; in response, Rockstar published the official version on YouTube, revealing the title, protagonists, setting, and release window of 2025 for the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S.[41][42][43] No Windows version has been announced.[44][43] The trailer featured Tom Petty's "Love Is a Long Road".[41] It broke the record for most first-day views on a non-music YouTube video within 12 hours, with 46 million,[45][46] became the third-most overall within 24 hours with 90 million,[47][48] and surpassed the lifetime viewership of Grand Theft Auto V's 2011 reveal trailer within two days with 101 million.[49]
September 2022 leak
On 18 September 2022, a user known as "teapotuberhacker"[c] published 90 videos to GTAForums showing 50 minutes of work-in-progress game footage.[52] Schreier confirmed with sources at Rockstar that the footage was genuine,[53] and The Guardian reported it was from several stages of development,[52] with some videos about a year old.[4] The footage revealed a modern-day Vice City setting, contained animation and gameplay tests, level layouts, and character conversations, and depicted player characters Lucia and Jason entering a strip club and robbing a diner.[4][11] The hacker claimed to be behind the Uber security breach from the earlier week.[53][54] They said they downloaded the files directly from Rockstar's internal Slack groups,[55] and claimed to possess source code, assets, and internal builds of Grand Theft Auto V and VI, which they threatened to publish.[53]
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