GTA 6 TRAILERS

Rockstar has released two full cinematic-style trailers, a short cover-art video, two large screenshot batches, and — as of August 27, 2026 — a 26-minute gameplay presentation, "Grand Theft Auto VI: An Extended Look," widely referred to as Trailer 3. Here is every official release in order, what each one showed, and the records they broke along the way. For the bigger picture, start with everything we know about GTA 6.

Every official GTA 6 video so far

Trailer 1 — December 4, 2023

The first trailer went live around 6 PM ET on December 4, 2023 — roughly a day ahead of its scheduled December 5 premiere, after the trailer leaked on X. In about 90 seconds, set to Tom Petty's 'Love Is a Long Road', it revealed the game's logo, the Vice City and state of Leonida setting, and Lucia — the series' first non-optional female lead — opening the trailer in prison before launching into a Bonnie-and-Clyde crime spree with her partner Jason. It leaned hard into Florida-meme energy: backyard alligators, mud clubs, and social-media vignettes. It also carried a '2025' release window for PS5 and Xbox Series X|S — a date that has since moved twice (see our GTA 6 release date tracker).

The numbers were historic: roughly 46 million views in the first 12 hours and a Guinness-logged 90,421,491 in 24 hours, demolishing MrBeast's 59.4 million record for a non-music video debut. It passed 100 million in under a week and set three Guinness World Records in its first day — most-viewed game trailer, most-viewed non-music YouTube video, and most-liked game trailer. According to Wikipedia's tracking, it sat around 275 million views by March 2026, still the most-viewed non-music trailer in YouTube history. Tom Petty's song spiked roughly 37,000% on Spotify.

Trailer 2 — May 6, 2025

Trailer 2 was a surprise shadow-drop around 9:30 PM ET — no countdown, no teaser — just four days after Rockstar announced the first delay to May 26, 2026. Set to 'Hot Together' by The Pointer Sisters (Spotify streams up ~182,000%), it confirmed the protagonists' full names, Jason Duval and Lucia Caminos, and put their relationship front and center: Jason picking Lucia up from prison, intimate bed, dancing, and beach scenes, a getaway in the Declasse Tulip, the pair robbing Uncle Jack's Liquor, and Jason fishing with Cal in the Leonida Keys.

On YouTube alone it drew about 75 million views in 24 hours — short of Trailer 1's record, largely because it launched across multiple platforms rather than YouTube-exclusive. Across all platforms, Rockstar reported 475 million views in 24 hours, beating Deadpool & Wolverine's cross-platform record (a Spider-Man: Brand New Day trailer has since reportedly passed it with 716 million). Trailer 2 went on to win Best Game Trailer at the 2025 Golden Joystick Awards and sat around 165 million YouTube views as of June 2026, per GTAboom.

The same day, Rockstar overhauled gtavi.com with 70 downloadable screenshots, profiles for eight characters and groups — including Cal Hampton, Boobie Ike, and Raul Bautista (full rundown on our characters page) — and descriptions of six regions of Leonida, from Vice City to Mount Kalaga National Park (see the map & Leonida guide).

Cover-art reveal — June 18, 2026

Rockstar's most recent official video is a ~33-second cover-art reveal: a slow pan across the artwork — Jason and Lucia front and center in Rockstar's signature collage style, with a minigun helicopter, a motorcycle wheelie over a police cruiser, a yellow sports car, and a pastel Vice City sunset — ending with the announcement that pre-orders would open June 25. It drew about 10 million YouTube views in three days, per GTAboom. Rumor: fan analysis claims its guitar-and-synth backing track is the first listen of the game's main theme; Rockstar has not confirmed this.

Pre-orders opened June 25, 2026 alongside a second screenshot batch of 63 images showing customization, businesses, nightlife, and edition content, plus short in-game footage snippets — GamesRadar counts these as the only new in-game glimpses since Trailer 2. Full pricing and bonus details are on our editions & pre-orders page.

Trailer 3 — "An Extended Look," August 27, 2026

Rockstar broke its own pattern for this one: instead of a Newswire post and a straight YouTube drop, it partnered with Netflix for a first-of-its-kind premiere. "Grand Theft Auto VI: An Extended Look" went live on Netflix at 3 PM ET on August 27, 2026, then on Rockstar's own YouTube channel and the GTA VI website six hours later, at 9 PM ET the same day — free to everyone from that point on. It's a 26-minute presentation, captured entirely in-engine on PS5, and it is the first extended gameplay footage of GTA 6 since the game's December 2023 reveal. Full breakdown on our Trailer 3 page.

• Gameplay: combat and melee (including a moment using a stiletto heel as an improvised weapon), car theft and vehicle combat, and an extended multi-star police chase with a helicopter — with players swapping between Jason driving and Lucia firing.
• Character switching: seamless swaps between Jason and Lucia shown both mid-mission and in free roam, well beyond what Trailer 2 hinted at.
• Everyday life: real time spent on Jason and Lucia's relationship outside of crime — getting ready together, holding hands — plus side activities like working out, clubbing, kayaking, and swimming with dolphins.
• Also confirmed the same week: the single-player game ships with no microtransactions and used no generative AI in development (per Rockstar North's Rob Nelson, in interviews with outlets including GameSpot and VGC), and GTA 6 currently runs locked to 30fps on both PS5 and Xbox Series X|S at launch, with no performance mode confirmed yet.

Reception was strongly positive: 31.1 million Netflix views in the first four days, topping that platform's global English-language chart in 87 of 93 tracked countries, plus 17 million-plus views on Rockstar's YouTube channel. No further trailers or showcases are announced ahead of the November 19, 2026 launch. We track every follow-up detail in News & Trailers, and the wilder theories about what's still unrevealed live in Theories & Speculation.