GTA 6 Trailers

For most of the campaign the official footage came down to two trailers — the December 2023 reveal and the longer follow-up in May 2025 — which is why both are worth watching closely rather than once. The first ended years of speculation by confirming the return to Vice City, introducing Lucia and setting its montage of sun, crime and excess to Tom Petty’s “Love Is a Long Road.” It leaned hard into a social-media, livestream-saturated version of Leonida, signalling that GTA VI would hold a mirror to the present day.

The second trailer was a different kind of video: longer, calmer and more character-driven. It fleshed out Lucia, formally introduced her partner Jason, and widened the lens across Leonida — from Vice City’s beaches and nightlife to the swamps, keys and small towns that ring it. Crucially, it arrived alongside a release date, turning an abstract “someday” into a moment fans could mark on a calendar.

Just as telling is what those two deliberately withheld. Rockstar says Trailer 2 was captured in-game on PlayStation 5, half gameplay and half cutscenes, but it was cut as a cinematic trailer: no heads-up display, no mission structure and no world map. That restraint is a Rockstar signature — reveal character and world long before systems. An Extended Look, captured entirely from in-game footage on PlayStation 5, is the first official video to show the game being played at length, though Rockstar still controls exactly how much of the game it shows.

The Launch Trailer, released on October 15, 2026, closes the campaign. At about ninety seconds it is back to the length of the reveal, and like An Extended Look it was captured entirely in-game on PlayStation 5. It spells out the premise — an easy score goes wrong and Lucia and Jason are drawn into a conspiracy that spans Leonida — and swaps licensed songs for “Flower in a Hurricane,” a new single from Justice, the duo behind the game’s original score. For a fuller breakdown, read our explainer on every official GTA VI trailer, our write-up of what An Extended Look showed, or see the details fans keep spotting in our trailer breakdown roundup.