{"id":870709,"date":"2026-08-27T21:56:17","date_gmt":"2026-08-27T21:56:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/870709\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T21:56:17","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T21:56:17","slug":"grand-theft-auto-vis-long-overdue-gameplay-reveal-as-it-happened-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/870709\/","title":{"rendered":"Grand Theft Auto VI\u2019s long-overdue gameplay reveal \u2013 as it happened | Games"},"content":{"rendered":"

And with that \u2026 we\u2019re going to wrap up for the night (or day, depending where you are). If you want to watch the Grand Theft Auto VI<\/a> extended look yourself, at 9pm ET\/2AM BST it will have passed its inconvenient period of Netflix exclusivity and will be viewable on YouTube via Rockstar\u2019s channel. Thanks for joining us, and roll on 19 November \u2026<\/p>\n

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Updated at\u00a016.03 EDT<\/p>\n

For me, as a Miami Vice fan of olde, all I really want to do in this game is drive a black Ferrari Daytona Spyder along an endless highway while In the Air Tonight plays on the car radio. If it can deliver that, it might have to be instant five stars.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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Easy: gator wrestling. It\u2019s (fictional) Florida, after all. How about you?<\/p>\n

Share<\/a>\"KeithKeith Stuart<\/p>\n

Keza, if you could ask for ONE feature to be added to the game based on what you saw tonight, what would it be?<\/p>\n

Share<\/a>\"KezaKeza MacDonald<\/p>\n

It also really is a shame that a lot of what was just shown was leaked earlier this week \u2013 actually we know more from the leaks than from that trailer. Rockstar\u2019s legal team has been on an absolute mission trying to delete all of that from the internet, but a lot of damage was done.<\/p>\n

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\"KezaKeza MacDonald<\/p>\n

It\u2019s hard to get TOO excited about racing around Vice City \u2013 we have had several excellent Forza Horizon games in the 13 years since the last GTA game, which have satisfied my desire for vehicular tourism. However, we also saw a whole raft of other stuff there: lifting weights on the beach, playing pool, basketball, hunting, kayaking \u2026 There\u2019s evidently not exactly a shortage of things to do other than driving and shooting. GTA has always been more about the worlds than the action for me, so that\u2019s reassuring to see. I do wonder how focused the game is going to be on Jason and Lucia: whether I\u2019ll feel pulled through by their story, wanting to know what happens to them, or whether I\u2019ll spend most of my time distracted by absolute nonsense, as I was for most of my time with GTA V. I spent a LOT of time on pointless bike rides up mountains in that game.<\/p>\n

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\"KeithKeith Stuart<\/p>\n

While Keza is formulating her reply to my question, I just have to add this: look at what is at the top of the trending table on Bluesky \u2026<\/p>\n

\"GTAGTA VI dog petting tops the Bluesky table. Photograph: BlueSkyShare<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"KeithKeith Stuart<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t think there was anything in here that I really didn\u2019t expect. If I\u2019d have written a bingo card of GTA moments before the start, I would have ticked every box by the end. But it does look amazing and I was glad that, so far, they seem to have nailed what they\u2019ve rarely even tried before: an actual functioning romantic relationship between two playable characters.<\/p>\n

Keza, has anything excited you about the extracurricular stuff in the game? It seems like a lot of racing?<\/p>\n

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\"KezaKeza MacDonald<\/p>\n

What do you reckon overall, Keith? Has this moved the needle for you at all or was it pretty much exactly what you expected?<\/p>\n

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I gotta say, it IS good watching a female character as an active participant in a Grand Theft Auto<\/a> game rather than someone to whom violence is happening \u2013 though it would be unwise to expect anything other than large quantities of violent misanthropy from a GTA game.<\/p>\n

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Many of the people we\u2019ve seen Jason and Lucia working with\/for seem to be the most insufferable jerks on the American continent (another GTA staple, that at its best this series satirises but also mirrors the worst excesses of the hyper-capitalist US).<\/p>\n

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