One of the most anticipated video games of recent years, GTA VI, has released its first trailer. In just a few minutes, the video has become a virtual phenomenon that has traveled around the world. The trailer has confirmed that the game saga will have a female protagonist for the first time and that the city in which the adventure is set will be Vice City, a transcription of Miami that has already appeared in previous installments.
The game, the sixth canonical installment of the Grand Theft Auto saga, is one of the most anticipated in recent years. It is not for nothing that the fifth part of the saga, published in 2013, is the highest-grossing cultural product in history with 7.12 billion euros. Much of that money was generated by the 185 million copies sold across all platforms, but a large portion also came from multiplayer, which continues to gain more users this decade.
The trailer was supposed to be released on Tuesday at 3:00 p.m. but was leaked in the early hours of Monday to Tuesday. The company reacted quickly and decided to push the release forward so that it is now officially available. The preview reveals that the game will be released in 2025.
Famous for its irreverent sense of humor and highly personal approach to violence, the saga has become a reference in popular culture with its mix of driving, shootings and robberies. But also (and increasingly) because of the depth of its interactive world, the very vivid recreation of the game’s cities and the feeling of complete freedom it offers the player. Furthermore, it has been one of the great historical goals of those who seek to associate violence with video game consumption. Playing GTA doesn’t make you more violent, but the game is the perfect definition of a work for adults only.
The date on which this preview is shown is no coincidence: the trailer arrives two days before the Game Awards gala in Las Vegas, the industry’s most important award. With the world of entertainment focusing on video games, releasing the trailer now is also a way to make a statement and nominate the game as a winner in a future edition of the awards.
GTA VI made headlines last year due to a data leak from developer Rockstar, which resulted in images of the game and parts of the source code being released. As viral as the world is today, this theft only multiplied the expectations that the game generated, and since then not a month has passed without information about possible release dates or visual previews. Also speculation. Speculation that now largely ends, with the first real look at a game destined to break all records.
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