Tuesday 6th May 2025. Less than a week on from Rockstar Games announcing the delay of GTA VI to May 2026, a Twitter notification alerts us to Trailer 2. Stop what you're doing, drop everything. You'll never experience watching this for the first time again.
The opening scene hits so much more than Trailer 1, which was first leaked on Twitter behind a crypto watermark.
2 minutes 46 seconds of new GTA VI footage? Yes please. 70 more screenshots on a shiny new GTA VI website? Yes please.
If you haven't watched the trailer 10 times, frame by frame, do it now. If you haven't trawled through each and every screenshot, zooming in on every detail (have you seen those bubbles in the beer bottle?), do it now.
Just like Trailer 1, there's something quite surreal about all this. GTA VI is a game you've thought about over and over. Heard spoken about over and over.
Yet until yesterday, we'd only seen a minute or so of official footage, and even another 2 and a half is still a drop in the ocean of however many tens of hours the story will end up lasting.
It looks good, if you hadn't noticed, really really really good. Almost like one of those too good to be true animated trailers that you see on YouTube.
I've seen so many of those 100% definitely not AI 'leaked' screenshots used in YouTube thumbnails that there's a few official screenshots that look so uncannily good its hard to comprehend that in a year's time you'll be able to play the game and move these characters around and drive those cars and walk right into those...
Practically any other game trailer that looks as good as this immediately makes you check the fine print... not game engine footage, pre-rendered, etc. This is Rockstar Games, though. They don't mess about with cinematic trailers.
They just fire the game up, record some cutscenes (recorded in engine), pop some music on, boom done (taking nothing away from the absolute genius of those directing, filming, and editing these trailers).
The point is, you watch a Rockstar Games trailer and it does exactly what it says on the tin - in some cases, it'll end up looking even better. Yes, it can look better than that? There's the next kicker... Trailer 2 was recorded on PS5, not PS5 Pro, PS5!?
I know it's a long, long road until PC, but it's incomprehensible to imagine how good this thing's going to look once they get their hands on it.
Don't be fooled by those in Twitter replies questioning if the game will actually look this good. Yep. 100%. Time and time again, Rockstar Games has put out a trailer that seems to be pushing the technological limits of whatever console era it's in, then two years later, out pops the game looking even better.
Take Red Dead Redemption II as an example. Trailer 1 looked gorgeous, but there's some scenes that have a GTA V feel to them. Trailer 3 rolls around, and it's clearly even better. The rest is history.
Don't believe me? Bookmark whichever tweet we share this article on. Come back and laugh at us if GTA VI drops and it's a mess. We won't be here, though. We'll be in Leonida, sitting stunned at how impressive the world is. Because it will be.
