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GTA 6 trailer shows how much Rockstar is "pushing the limits" of current hardware, says former GTA 5 animator
If you’ve spent the past day or so watching GTA 6’s first trailer over and over again, you might want to check out this breakdown of it from an ex-Rockstar developer.
Animator Mike York, who worked on both GTA 5 and Red Dead Redemption 2 during a near 6 year stint at Rockstar New England, now has a YouTube channel called York Reacts. As you might expect, the latest thing he’s reacted to is GTA 6’s first trailer, offering some interesting perspective on it.
First of all, after giving the trailer an initial just watch to take in the magic, York shares a bit of a glimpse into what it feels like to work on a GTA games as a developer. “When I worked on [GTA 5], I knew that it was going to be something special,” he says. “As you’re working on the game and working on different cutscenes at in-game scenes as an animator, you can just kinda get a feel for it. Everyone [else] doesn’t know yet that the game is going to be so cool, and that’s how they are feeling right now over there at Rockstar.”
Was GTA 6's trailer release date revealed by GTA Online T-shirt in June?
We’re mere hours away from the first trailer for Grand Theft Auto 6, the simple teaser image for which has already sparked an internet-wide meme and thrown infinite fuel on the ever-burning GTA 6 rumour fire. Big questions remain, of course. Not least: when will GTA 6 actually be out? Yet some eagle-eyed internet detectives reckon GTA 6’s release date has been staring us all in the face - and nips - for months.
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Rockstar sneakily told us GTA 6's first trailer date months ago
Turns out that the first trailer date for GTA 6 has been hiding in almost plain sight, for a good few months.
Ever since Rockstar confirmed GTA 6, or whatever it ends up being called, back in February, fans of the series have been speculating as to when we might get a first trailer. Sure, sometimes theories had strong conspiracy theories vibes, but at least most people were just having a bit of fun. As it turns out, though, some fans were actually right about one theory: back in June, a shirt released in GTA Online just called GTAV Anniversary was released that had fans wondering if it was a GTA 6 hint. It hid a cypher which revealed a cryptic message, "ONEDAYWILLREVEALALL," and at the time some thought it meant an announcement for the sequel game would come on GTA 5's tenth anniversary on September 17.
However, back in October, one fan noticed how the shirt had a particular numerical sequence that they thought was pointing towards a trailer date, those set of numbers being 12523, i.e. December 5, 2023 (thanks, GamesRadar). Turns out that said fan was dead on, as obviously last week Rockstar confirmed that the first trailer for GTA 6 would in fact be arriving December 5, at 9am ET/ 2pm GMT. Looking at the shirt, there are a whole bunch of numbers to be found on it, so it would have been understandable to take the speculation with a pinch of salt. But with all of the other weird things about the shirt, it sure does seem like Rockstar was trying to tell us about the trailer for a long while now.