How does social media work? Will GTA 5’s bullet time return? And how big is that gosh darn map?
The Grand Theft Auto 6 trailer has arrived (a bit earlier than expected) and in the single day it’s been online it’s already been watched by about 90 million people. That’s more than the entire population of Germany. It’s also broken a Guinness World Record becoming the most viewed videogame reveal within 24 hours.
New flash: people are interested in GTA 6! If you haven’t seen the trailer yourself yet, you can watch it below as soon as you explain where you’ve been for the last day.
The trailer looks great, except for that unfortunate « 2025 » at the end, coupled with the boner-killing bummer of the revelation that GTA 6 won’t launch on PC simultaneously with the consoles. Boooo.
The other problem: the trailer is only 91 seconds long, and while we’re left satisfied by the pretty colors and moving images and Tom Petty of it all, we’re also filled with questions. Questions that probably won’t be answered for at least a good 18 months or so. No reason not to ask them now, though!
Here are six burning questions we have about GTA 6 after watching the trailer.How does social media work?
Chris Livingston, Senior Editor: No surprise that the trailer shows so much social media considering its rise as a cultural phenomenon since the last GTA game. We’re just wondering how it will all work in GTA 6.
Will we be able to watch clips of a TikTok-like app on our phones and tap them to like them, or will it run a little deeper than that? Maybe the open world will be filled with viral moments just waiting to be recorded as a new sort of collectible: see some weirdo twerking on the roof of a moving car or running naked from the cops, record them, post them, and earn likes and views for some sort of in-game clout? That’d be kind of fun, though it could also be a bit distracting. Stopping a bank heist getaway to film a Karen going ham with two hammers? Sounds dicey.Can you play as that dude?
Tyler Wilde, Executive Editor: The trailer seems to establish Lucia as the main character.
