In one scene they are shown stealing a police car together and fleeing the scene of the crime with police in pursuit. On the shelf is a white hard hat, suggesting that Jason might be a construction worker when he is not busy robbing convenience stores.įrom the leaked videos, it would appear that Lucia and Jason start out separately but eventually come together. In another video, Jason is shown in a messy apartment with a filthy spa tub that may or may not belong to him. Her male counterpart is Jason, a young white man in a tank top. She dresses casually in blue jeans and a pink top, though in one video she is depicted in a black cocktail dress and heels. Her name is Lucia, she appears to be Latina, and she promises to help players forget about Vice City's Tommy Vercetti in GTA 6. One thing that is clear from the leaked videos is that GTA 6 will have two main playable characters, and for the first time one of them will be a woman.
In another leaked scene there's a character shooting up an old station wagon, which, while not hinting at a historical setting, may serve to illustrate the contrasting wealth in GTA 6's open world - as was the case with GTA 5. But this car is no antique: the driver is shown trying (and failing) to launch it off a highway ramp and through a billboard shaped like a TV set, suggesting that the car has a powerful engine and capable suspension - not a junker, in other words, but a new vehicle, which would place the game sometime in the 1980s (the TV in the billboard is also an old CRT model). At one point a character is shown driving a car with a pickup bed, perhaps a Chevrolet El Camino - a classic Grand Theft Auto vehicle GTA 6 could bring back - which was manufactured between 19. The vehicles on the streets show a mix, but this doesn't mean the game is set in the past. NPCs can be seen using large-screened smartphones as they walk the streets, which suggests the 2010s or later. The time in which GTA 6 is set appears to be after GTA 5, with one conversation referring to the Lifeinvader plot from the series' last entry. All of this suggests that GTA 6 may take place in multiple locations in the south Florida region and beyond, which would accord with earlier rumors about GTA 6’s Project Americas suggesting the map might be enormous and international, with the developers planning to add new cities and regions after the game has been released. Rockstar is known for clever in-game references, and in this case (as user Esconis points out on GTA Forums) Gellhorn could refer to Martha Gellhorn, the third wife of Ernest Hemingway, who met the famous author in Key West, Florida, and lived with him in Havana, Cuba. Furthermore, the phone number for the Port Gellhorn police, as shown on their cars, is a 305 area code, a south Florida exchange. The police cars shown in the videos are from a place called Port Gellhorn, which could either be a suburb of Vice City or an entirely new setting for GTA. The name Vice City can even be seen in a few places, including on the side of an underground metro car and on the front of a building labeled the Vice City Community Enhancement Center.īut GTA 6's setting might include other Florida locations as well. The backgrounds certainly look like Vice City, with its elevated freeways, wide, palm-lined city streets, and expansive waterfront. Rockstar had been quiet ever since, though publisher Take-Two Interactive dropped a hint in May 2023 when it projected massive financial gains between April 2024 and March 2025 as a result of the launch of an enormously profitable series.For some time, observers have speculated that GTA 6 might mark a return to south Florida, the location of 2002’s Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, and the leaked videos suggest that may in fact be the case. Last year wasn't all positive for Rockstar though as development footage of GTA 6 was leaked in a colossal data breach at the developer, with authorities eventually arresting a British teenager in relation to the incident.
The first mention didn't arrive until 2020 though when reports emerged around Rockstar looking to improve working conditions at its studios, and official word that development on GTA 6 was "well underway" came in 2022. Confirmation finally came on December 1 when Rockstar revealed the trailer would arrive tomorrow, December 5, but Rockstar clearly pushed up the release following the leak.įans have been talking about about GTA 6 ever since GTA 5 was released in 2013, perhaps unsurprisingly as IGN deemed that one a "masterpiece" in our review. Rockstar said in November that the trailer would arrive in "early December," leaving the video game industry to sit tight with bated breath.