Watch: ‘Grand Theft Auto 6’ Trailer Shows Off Return to Vice City

Rockstar Games has finally delivered the debut trailer for Grand Theft Auto 6, the first game in the record-breaking gaming franchise in over a decade.

The 90-seconds teaser trailer hit YouTube some 15 hours early, after leaking on X (formerly Twitter). It appears that Rockstar decided to release the trailer prior to when it had previously announced to get ahead of the leak.

"Our trailer has leaked so please watch the real thing on YouTube," the developer posted to X Monday night.

The trailer introduces its two main characters, one of whom is the series first female protagonist since going 3D, Lucia. Players also get their first look at the revamped Vice City, the expansive region where the game will take place.

Like Liberty City, Rockstar’s recreation of New York City featured in Grand Theft Auto 4, and San Andreas, which was the studio's digital take on Los Angeles and the greater California area in Grand Theft Auto 5, Vice City will set its players in a virtual amalgamation of Miami and the greater state of Florida.

The trailer shows a variety of locations and environments in the state (set to Tom Petty's "Love Is A Long Road") including scenic beaches, small rural towns, murky swamps filled with wildlife and buzzing downtown areas. Also featured is the prominent use of social media, which the trailer implies will play a major role in the game.

This will be the third time Vice City has been featured in a mainline Grand Theft Auto game, following 2002’s Grand Theft Auto: Vice City and the original Grand Theft Auto from 1998. Grand Theft Auto 6’s version of the locale will be completely different from both.

An exact release date wasn’t announced with the trailer. But Rockstar confirmed that the game will drop sometime in 2025.

Grand Theft Auto 6 will be Rockstar Games’ first title since 2018’s Red Dead Redemption 2. In the decade since Grand Theft Auto 5’s release, the franchise has pulled in over $8.6 billion in revenue for the studio, a subsidiary of gaming publisher Take Two. Grand Theft Auto 5 alone has become the most profitable entertainment product of all-time.

Rockstar has long made it a tradition to build hype for its games by dropping only a handful of trailers before their release.