Rockstar Games Reveals 'Extended Look' for GTA VI Trailer on Netflix and YouTube

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Rockstar Games Reveals 'Extended Look' for GTA VI Trailer on Netflix and YouTube
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  1. I think I know why Rockstar Games debuted its “extended look” of Grand Theft Auto VI on Netflix instead of immediately dropping it for free on YouTube. Unlike most video game trailers, the almost 27-minute preview of GTA VI felt more like a slice of a prestige crime drama than any video game trailer that I’ve ever seen. To make a new game that lasts another decade or more and potentially rivals the success of its predecessor, Rockstar is clearly trying to further blur the lines between Hollywood and video games.

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    Wired

    It’s safe to say Grand Theft Auto VI is the most anticipated game ever. Thirteen years after the last entry in the series, rampant fervor and speculation about what features the game will include have ratcheted up. Today, Rockstar Games divulged more details through an exclusive livestream event on Netflix called Grand Theft Auto VI: An Extended Look. The spectacle was a 26-minute-long collection of gameplay, cutscenes, and game mechanics.

    Engadget

    Prepare for six stars, two playable characters and one hell of a ride. Arguably the most anticipated video game of all time is almost upon us. Netflix bagged an exclusive 26-minute extended look of GTA VI for all of six hours, before the bumper trailer hit YouTube and other platforms ahead of the game's release on November 19. Now that we've been given our deepest glimpse yet into Vice City and the surrounding bayous and forests of Leonida, what new information can we glean from a potential open-world opus that is poised to smash every sales record?

  2. And boy, does this sure look like a GTA game. The trailer featured Lucia and Jason, the two main characters, driving around Vice City, GTA’s fictional version of Miami. It highlighted all kinds of violence and shenanigans your characters can engage in, and it looks good doing it.

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    Engadget

    Throughout the trailer you can catch Lucia and Jason indulging in all sorts of relaxing (or occasionally exhilarating) pastimes. Basketball, dirt bike races, scuba diving, timed target practice challenges, stock car racing, kayaking and backyard wrestling with WWE signature finishing moves can all be spotted at various points. If the standard that GTA V set with its minigames is anything to go by, each of these activities will lean on strong mechanics that make them a pleasure to replay.

    The Verge

    Rockstar is keeping GTA VI’s plot details close to its chest, but the video gives the broad strokes: GTA VI is about protagonists Jason Duval and Lucia Caminos working together in Vice City. Across the tightly-edited video, which jumps between cutscenes and moments of actual gameplay, Jason and Lucia do a lot of GTA-style crimes: they evade cops in gunfights, pull off high-stakes robberies, and shoot a lot of people. But they also have moments of chatting leisurely in the car or even bickering about what clothes to wear.

  3. Thursday’s extended look will be available on Rockstar’s YouTube channel and the GTA VI website at 9PM ET. The game is scheduled to release on November 19th at a starting price of $79.99, but you won’t be able to buy it on a physical disc.

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  1. 01 Gizmodo

    As Marvel prepares to re-enter single-player games with Wolverine’s upcoming solo outing, attention’s also turned to another A-lister’s future game: Iron Man.

  2. 02 Engadget

    When you think about the most expensive entertainment productions ever created, video games are likely not the first thing that comes to mind. Hollywood studios routinely spend hundreds of millions of dollars on a single movie that can have a multi-year production schedule. But video games have actually become just as expensive to produce of late, sometimes even surpassing major films. Case in point: Grand Theft Auto VI looks set to become the most expensive game ever created.

  3. 03 The Verge

    The nearly 27-minute preview largely focuses more on atmosphere, protagonists Jason Duval and Lucia Caminos, and highlighting locations in the game instead of diving deep on specific game mechanics. It feels more like slices of a movie than a video game trailer. But there are a few sections showing off playable shootouts and police car chases as well as activities like shooting a basketball and scuba diving. Other outlets that got previews from Rockstar have more details on gameplay that weren’t included in the video.

  4. 04 Wired

    It’s bound to be a massive game; today’s reveal shows just how much of a monster it will be. Here are the big takeaways from the livestream.

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Original Articles (8)

Culture The ‘Iron Man’ Game Lives, And Its First Look Leaked — Gizmodo
Consumer The wildest video game budgets can't hold a candle to GTA 6 — Engadget
Consumer 20+ things you may have missed in the GTA 6 extended look — Engadget
Consumer The GTA VI ‘extended look’ is now streaming on YouTube — The Verge
Consumer The biggest video game of all time looks like a movie — The Verge
Consumer GTA VI looks just as great as we could hope for — The Verge
Culture 6 Takeaways From the GTA VI Extended Look — Wired
Culture Netflix Failed at Video Games. Now It’s Trying to Promote Them — Wired