‘Grand Theft Auto VI: An Prolonged Look’ has now premiered on Netflix, and comes amid quite a few gameplay leaks which Rockstar addressed earlier this week. The brand new 26 minute video gave us a giant perception into how GTA 6 will play, and after watching, it now feels tantalisingly near its November launch – which comes after two separate delays from its initially deliberate 2025 launch yr.
This is what we have learnt from the brand new video:
Graphics
The in-game footage on this prolonged look has been ran on a regular PlayStation 5, reasonably than the PS5 Professional. Both method, it reveals a powerful stage of constancy for a console launch, and as you’d anticipate, it is a vital step up from the practically 13-year-old GTA 5. If GTA 6 is to come back to PC sooner or later, that implies the sport will likely be a graphical masterpiece – however you may positively need among the best graphics playing cards to max these settings out.
The element on automobile interiors is a large step up from GTA 5, and the identical goes for the interiors inside playable buildings.
Mechanics
The Prolonged Look reveals a brand new interplay function much like Crimson Useless Redemption 2, letting you select the road your character speaks to different individuals on the earth.
Your participant can also be capable of work together with extra of the world itself, corresponding to flicking gentle switches in buildings. That hints at the opportunity of a extra Hitman-like method to working by some missions.
Fight-wise, the taking pictures appears to be like like a refined iteration of GTA 5’s, with larger gun management, the notable addition of slow-motion killcams on headshots, and higher ragdoll physics.
The wished system has additionally been reworked. Under the acquainted five-star show, an on-screen breakdown now reveals the elements driving your warmth stage – together with CCTV visibility, close by enemy rely, gun noise, and what you are carrying.
Map
We additionally acquired a significantly better take a look at what it’s going to appear like on the bottom in Vice Metropolis – interiors of buildings have a giant step up intimately in comparison with Los Santos, whereas vehicles and pedestrians throughout the world sees a large step up in quantity.
We additionally acquired a a lot clearer take a look at what Vice Metropolis will really really feel wish to stroll by. Constructing interiors present a noticeable step up intimately in comparison with Los Santos, with furnishings, lighting, and smaller architectural touches all seen. Outdoors, the world itself feels busier, with extra automobile site visitors and pedestrians giving a much more alive really feel than we noticed in GTA 5.
Automobiles and Driving
There are two methods to interrupt right into a automobile – both a slim jim, or the extra GTA-classic transfer of smashing a window. Presumably, the previous will entice much less warmth from the cops.
One of many first vehicles we see Jason and Lucia get into is an outdated Eighties German convertible – presumably Rockstar’s tackle a basic BMW 3 Sequence. The broader automobile roster appears to be like like a big improve from GTA 5, with loads of new fashions bringing Vice Metropolis updated, alongside acquainted names which have carried by the GTA universe for years – the Dinka Blista amongst them, noticed within the video. For the vehicles which have been carried throughout, there’s considerably extra element, each in and out.
We will additionally see random occasions happening on the street – corresponding to a restoration truck blocking one of many lanes on the freeway.
After evading the police, we see Lucia torch the automobile she was driving with a molotov cocktail – suggesting a mechanic by which you’ll entice extra police in the event you do not cowl your tracks in your earlier antics.
Racing additionally appears to be like set to play a much bigger a part of GTA 6. The Prolonged Look reveals a devoted asphalt observe and a mud observe, alongside a avenue race scene that appears proper out of Rockstar’s dormant Midnight Membership franchise. All of this might be significantly related for aggressive play as soon as GTA 6’s on-line mode arrives after launch.
What we nonetheless do not know
A 26 minute reveal may look like a very long time, but it surely appears this reveal has solely simply scratched the floor of what we’ll see in November. There’s nonetheless no info on the true dimension of the map, and a launch date for GTA On-line, which is predicted a while after launch, remains to be unknown. There was additionally little divulged of the storyline of GTA 6, although that is nice for not spoiling November time.
A 26-minute reveal may sound like so much, but it surely appears like this reveal has solely scratched the floor of what is coming in November. The actual dimension of the map stays unknown, and there is nonetheless no phrase on when GTA 6’s on-line mode will comply with. Story particulars had been additionally stored skinny, however that is no unhealthy factor if it means much less will get spoiled earlier than 19 November.
It is now lower than three months till the GTA 6 launch date on November nineteenth, however on day one, it’s going to solely be releasing on PlayStation 5 and the Xbox Sequence X and S consoles, with preorder costs of $79.99 for the bottom recreation. Rockstar has remained tight-lipped on a PC launch for GTA 6, with a port but to even be confirmed, not to mention a launch window, and we noticed no new info on a possible PC launch on this newest reveal. It is value remembering that GTA 5 debuted on PC a prolonged 19 months after its preliminary PS3 and Xbox 360 launch. PC gamers might be in for a protracted wait, in that case.
Missed out on the prolonged trailer and do not have a Netflix subscription? This prolonged preview is time unique to Netflix, and can go reside on Rockstar’s YouTube channel only a few hours later, so maintain a watch on the market.
