Summary
A newly surfaced video featuring the reveal trailers forGrand Theft Auto 6andGTA 5playing side-by-side highlights some of the massive graphical improvements that Rockstar managed to achieve over the past 12 years. The fan-made clip also serves as circumstantial evidence suggesting that thefirstGTA 6trailerdoes not look too good to be true, as some fans have feared.
To say that the long-awaited reveal of the next mainline installment in theGrand Theft Autoseries has taken the internet by storm would be an understatement. Since its premature premiere on December 4, the video has been viewed over 141 million times on YouTube alone, with countless fans scrutinizing its every frame. It also invited numerous analyses, some of whichcompared theGrand Theft Auto 6trailer to real-life Miami locations, while others drew parallels between the video and Rockstar’s past promos.
The latest example of the latter comes from Reddit user Sebastian4002, who recently put together a video showing the reveal trailers for the upcomingGTAgame and its predecessor playing side-by-side. Although many fans would agree thatGTA 5still looks fairly good for a ten-year-old game, the 89-second clip does a great job at illustrating the massive graphical improvements boasted by its successor, including much more detailed textures, significantly raised crowd density, and visibly better rendering distance. More realistic lighting effects and greatly improved animations are also easy to see when watching theGrand Theft Auto 6reveal simultaneously with itsGTA 5counterpart.
GTA 6 Trailer Likely Isn’t Overpromising on What the Game Will Look Like
The video also serves as a reminder of abeloved Rockstar Games tradition that theGTA 6trailer will hopefully uphold; although theGTA 5reveal was nothing short of breathtaking at the time, it didn’t end up overpromising on what the game would look like. On the contrary, it eventually turned out that Rockstar put together allGTA 5promo clips using in-game footage, and if anything, the final product actually looked marginally better than what its teasers suggested.
SinceGTA 5was hardly the first game in the series to receive such honest marketing treatment, its sequel will ostensibly continue that tradition. Fans fearing that theGTA 6trailer looks too good to be true should hence give Rockstar the benefit of the doubt, given its track record.
Overall, the firstGTA 6trailer compares rather favorably to Rockstar’s past reveals, both in terms of quality and quantity of content. But since the game itself isn’t slated to hit the market before 2025, it might be a while until Rockstar is ready to share another look at it.
Grand Theft Auto 6
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Grand Theft Auto VI heads to the state of Leonida, home to the neon-soaked streets of Vice City and beyond in the biggest, most immersive evolution of the Grand Theft Auto series yet.Jason and Lucia have always known the deck is stacked against them. But when an easy score goes wrong, they find themselves on the darkest side of the sunniest place in America, in the middle of a criminal conspiracy stretching across the state of Leonida — forced to rely on each other more than ever if they want to make it out alive.
