Everything we know about GTA 6 starts with two trailers. Between the December 2023 reveal and the May 2025 follow-up, Rockstar has shown the world roughly four minutes of footage of the long-awaited game. Those four minutes have been picked apart frame by frame, replayed millions of times, and analyzed across every gaming outlet and corner of the internet.
For all the speculation that surrounds the game, the trailers remain the most reliable source for what we know. This article walks through both, what they confirmed, what they implied, and what we’re still waiting to see.
Trailer 1: December 5, 2023
The first trailer for GTA 6 arrived on December 5, 2023, one day earlier than planned. A leaked version had begun circulating online, and Rockstar moved up the release rather than let the leak control the moment. The official version broke YouTube records, becoming the most-viewed non-music video in 24 hours.
Rockstar’s framing was minimal. The studio described GTA 6 as heading “to the state of Leonida, home to the neon-soaked streets of Vice City and beyond.” The original release window listed was 2025, since shifted to November 19, 2026.
The trailer runs about 90 seconds, and it’s less a story preview than a mood piece. The trailer is set to Tom Petty’s “Love Is a Long Road.” Bright sunlight. Palm trees. Aerial shots of a coastal city that reads as Vice City reimagined. Beach parties, crowded streets, and a constant stream of social media clips.
Rockstar spends most of the trailer establishing Leonida itself. The beaches, the nightlife, the wildlife, the excess, and the everyday weirdness all point toward a version of Florida that feels both familiar and exaggerated. The trailer isn’t trying to tell a story. It’s trying to build a world.
One of the few moments that breaks from that montage introduces Lucia Caminos behind bars.
“Lucia. Do you know why you’re here?”
“Bad luck, I guess.”
Her reply lands the entire character in two words. The sardonic deflection sidesteps the question entirely, and it sets a tone the rest of the trailer follows. Other fragments surface over the imagery: “Well look who’s back.” “The only way we’re gonna get through this is by sticking together.” “Being a team.”
Lucia appears throughout the trailer alongside a man Rockstar doesn’t name in this first reveal. The two are visibly a pair. In one quiet moment, they exchange a single word: “Trust?” “Trust.” Later shots place them side by side during what appears to be a robbery.
The unnamed partner would be introduced as Jason Duval a year and a half later.
What Trailer 1 confirmed: the Florida setting (Leonida), Vice City’s return, the modern-day timeframe, Lucia as a protagonist and her partnership with an unnamed second figure, and a tonal direction that mixed sunny aesthetics with darker undercurrents. What it didn’t confirm: Jason’s name or his role as the second protagonist, the dual-protagonist structure, any specific story details, or a confirmed release date.
Trailer 2: May 6, 2025
The second trailer arrived nearly a year and a half later, on May 6, 2025. At roughly two and a half minutes, it was significantly longer than Trailer 1 and gave a more complete picture of the game. The trailer is set to The Pointer Sisters’ “Hot Together,” a funkier 80s track that matches the more action-driven tone.
The official Rockstar description was more substantive this time. It read: “Vice City, USA. Jason and Lucia have always known the deck is stacked against them. But when an easy score goes wrong, they find themselves on the darkest side of the sunniest place in America, in the middle of a criminal conspiracy stretching across the state of Leonida — forced to rely on each other more than ever if they want to make it out alive.”
The description names Jason as the second protagonist and introduces the story’s central premise: an easy score gone wrong that pulls Lucia and Jason into a criminal conspiracy stretching across Leonida.
The trailer opens with Jason working on one of Brian’s properties. When Brian arrives, the conversation immediately turns to money.
“What you doing up there?” Brian asks.
“Oh, just fixing some leaks.”
“Seriously dude, you got some time on your hands. I got some properties with paying tenants.”
“What, that’s why you came by? Just go get me my checks!”
“See you, Brian.”
Brian leaves. Jason mutters “Love you, Jason.”
He gets into his muscle car and heads out to collect. The first stop makes it clear these aren’t routine collection runs.
The trailer then cuts to the moment Jason picks Lucia up from prison.
“I’m here for Lucia Caminos. She’s supposed to be getting out.”
“What’s your name?”
“Jason Duval.”
This is Rockstar’s official introduction of Jason Duval by name, and the first time we see Lucia and Jason together onscreen as a named pair. Their reunion isn’t just operational. The trailer shows them physically together in private moments, confirming the romantic dimension Rockstar would soon describe explicitly.
From there the trailer accelerates. The editing gets faster, the cuts shorter, and the scenes start bouncing between three registers: domestic life, criminal activity, and nightlife. The trailer doesn’t slow down to connect them. It floods you with them.
Dialogue threads through the chaos:
“To new beginnings.”
“Trust me, this place is just a start for us.”
“You and me Lu, we got this. We got it.”
The “You and me Lu” line is Jason’s, and it tells us how he refers to Lucia. The trailer also features a parody commercial for “Phil’s Ammu-Nation” playing on a TV somewhere in the chaos, a callback to the gun store franchise that has appeared in every 3D-era GTA game.
The trailer closes on Lucia and Jason driving away into the Florida sunset.
What Trailer 2 confirmed: Jason Duval as the second protagonist, the dual-protagonist structure, the partnership dynamic between Lucia and Jason, the criminal conspiracy plot, Vice City as a major location, and the modern-day setting with returning franchise elements like Ammu-Nation.
What the trailers have confirmed
The trailers establish the core outline of GTA 6: a modern-day Vice City story centered on Lucia Caminos and Jason Duval, whose partnership draws them into a criminal conspiracy stretching across Leonida. Lucia is the first playable woman in a mainline GTA game, and Rockstar has described the duo as “modern day Bonnie and Clyde.” The trailers confirm the setting, the protagonists, and the tone, while leaving most of the plot deliberately opaque.
The trailers establish the world and the relationship but stay deliberately vague about plot specifics.
What the trailers have implied but not confirmed
A few things appear in the trailers that fans have inferred but Rockstar hasn’t officially stated. We don’t know what Lucia was in prison for, what the “easy score gone wrong” specifically involves, or who Brian is beyond his apparent role as Jason’s boss. Whether the game’s story follows the Bonnie and Clyde arc to its historical conclusion is also unknown.
The trailers establish the world and the relationship but stay deliberately vague about plot specifics. Rockstar has been careful not to spoil the story.
What we expect from Trailer 3
Rockstar has historically released three to four trailers before a major launch. A third GTA 6 trailer is widely expected before the November 19, 2026 release, but Rockstar has not confirmed a date.
When Trailer 3 arrives, it will likely show more gameplay, more story details, and possibly information about editions and pre-orders.
Closing
For all the time GTA 6 has been in development and all the discussion that surrounds it, the trailers remain the foundation of what we know. Two trailers, roughly four minutes of footage, and a handful of confirmed character details. Everything else is inference, leaks, or speculation.
That foundation will get bigger before launch. Until then, what Rockstar has shown is what we have.