GTA 6 trailer 3: the full video, 26 minutes of gameplay

✅ Confirmed: Rockstar's own blurb is short and unambiguous — "captured entirely from in-game footage on PlayStation 5, this extended look at the next Grand Theft Auto showcases the biggest, most immersive evolution of the series yet".

That's the part that matters: no pre-rendered footage, no cutscene sleight of hand. What you see in the player above runs on a console you can buy today.

The schedule announced the day before was kept to the minute: Netflix live at 9 p.m. CEST, free release six hours later.

The video isn't a montage of quick cuts: it runs through complete blocks of gameplay, broken up by quieter stretches. Here's how it unfolds.

The through-line is explicit: Jason and Lucia owe someone money, so they take whatever work comes. That's what justifies packing so many kinds of job — robbery, delivery, protection, pickup — into a single demonstration.

This is the first real break from GTA V. Combat no longer feels like that game's slightly mushy assisted shooting: it visibly borrows from Red Dead Redemption 2 and Max Payne 3, two other in-house productions.

What the video shows:

• Enemies can be wounded and downed without dying instantly — ragdolls are far more detailed
• Slow-motion kicks in on certain kills, in a very Max Payne style
• Weapons can be picked up off the ground, which GTA V never allowed
• Melee is a real system now, with dedicated animations
• A shotgun can be fired one-handed

🟡 Reported by the press: the previews published the same evening by journalists flown out to Rockstar North also describe a focus meter — time slows and the enemy's weak zones light up in red and yellow. That element shows up in the previews rather than in the public video.

This is the claim that travelled furthest after the broadcast, and it holds up: the wanted level goes back up to six stars, after GTA V capped it at five. The video itself only reaches four, during the bank heist getaway.

The real change isn't the star count, it's the logic behind it:

• Police are only alerted if someone sees you or a security system detects you
• Officers responding to the call are given a description: what happened, and who might be involved
• Icons show what the police have actually recognised about you — your face, your clothes, your car, and the fact that there were two of you
• Changing outfit or vehicle therefore becomes a genuine escape mechanic, not a cosmetic reflex
• Patrols look for you before giving up, instead of vanishing all at once

In the chase sequence, Jason and Lucia shoot out the tyres of police cars, which flip and crash. Vehicle destruction is visibly deeper than before, and fire spreads: a Molotov sets a car alight progressively.

Several of these points line up with things spotted in the August leaks — this time, they're official.

Stealing a car is no longer a single button press. The video shows an interactive sequence: Jason forces a window with a hammer in one shot, and the previews mention a slim jim for opening a door without breaking the glass — the quieter option.

On driving, there's first-person view during a chase, drive-bys with automatic weapons, and vehicle handling described as considerably more worked-through than GTA V's. The cars spotted in the earlier trailers are joined by machines nobody had seen in motion: jet skis, fanboats, canoes, e-scooters, dirt bikes.

Water takes up far more space than in past entries — which makes sense for a Florida-inspired state, given how much of the Leonida map is threaded with canals and wetlands.

Swapping between the two characters is near-instant — far quicker than moving between Michael, Franklin and Trevor in GTA V, which forced an aerial transition shot.

What the video establishes:

• The switch happens inside missions, on a press of the D-pad
• The character you aren't controlling acts on their own: they shoot, they join in on robberies, they don't just stand there
• Money and weapons are shared between the two
• A whole sequence is built on it: Lucia parachutes down while Jason handles a conversation on the ground

That fits what Rockstar had hinted at about the Jason / Lucia duo: two genuinely simultaneous protagonists, not two alternating campaigns.

🟡 Reported by the press: the relationship between the two is said to be tracked by the game — text exchanges would matter, and a deteriorating partnership would feed back into animations and certain situations. The video does show messages appearing as floating bubbles rather than on the phone screen, but no explicit relationship system.

The Bayside montage, midway through the video, clearly exists to make one point: the world isn't just scenery between missions. In a few minutes you get basketball, scuba diving, the gym (with alternating button presses, and an openly stated link to the character's build), a jet ski, kayaking, a playable arcade cabinet and an improvised store robbery.

Elsewhere in the video: a strip club, a nightclub with dancing and drinking, base jumping off a skyscraper, rally racing, motocross, fishing, a salon, watchable television, and the ability to pet dogs.

All of it sits in a Vice City noticeably busier than Los Santos, with detailed interiors and passers-by running their own micro-scenes — a woman with a hammer, a man on a bridge, caught in passing on a drive.

The absences are as informative as the content.

🔴 Nothing on GTA Online. Not a frame, not a mention. The multiplayer mode remains a complete blind spot.

🔴 Nothing on PC. The video closes on "Grand Theft Auto VI plays best on PlayStation 5" — the PC version still isn't announced, which is consistent with our read on Rockstar's strategy.

🟡 Little on story structure. You understand the pair are in debt and taking every job going, but nothing about acts, turning points or the ending. The previews mention a main campaign of around 80 hours with side content, a figure that comes from a developer rather than from the video.

🟡 Nothing official on performance. Several analyses put this capture at 30 frames per second on PS5; Rockstar has communicated no performance mode, no resolution, no numbers.

One confirmation, though: Phil Collins is on the soundtrack.