{"id":2116492,"date":"2026-08-27T21:21:49","date_gmt":"2026-08-27T18:21:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=2116492"},"modified":"2026-08-27T21:21:49","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T18:21:49","slug":"heres-what-happens-in-netflixs-grand-theft-auto-vi-extended-look","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=2116492","title":{"rendered":"Here\u2019s What Happens in Netflix\u2019s \u2018Grand Theft Auto VI\u2019 Extended Look"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\u201cMight not feel like it, but these are your glory days. The salad years, y\u2019know? Nothing is gonna beat who you are now. You can\u2019t see all the fucked up shit that\u2019s looming on the horizon. Enjoy this, dude. If this right now was all that there is, all the time, it\u2019d be perfect.\u201d<\/p>\n

And then a moment later: \u201cTrust me.\u201d<\/p>\n

So says an unnamed narrator at the end of the extended trailer for Grand Theft Auto VI<\/em> that debuted this afternoon on Netflix. And the thing is: you believe him. Sort of. Do you trust him? Hell no. But maybe the guy has a point\u2026 right?<\/p>\n

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A game so long-awaited that the \u201clong-awaited\u201d clich\u00e9 has long since stopped doing it justice, Grand Theft Auto VI<\/em> takes us into the latter-day Bonnie-and-Clyde world of Jason and Lucia, a couple of protagonists who we met in the first trailer, over two years ago, upon the latter\u2019s release from jail. In the second trailer, released a year later, they were vowing to go straight.<\/p>\n

Well, in news that will shock no one, that\u2019s not quite how things work out. This trailer begins with them picking up a \u201cdelivery\u201d from a cookhouse, an assignment that goes very<\/em> sideways once the cops show up. Once the duo escapes, it\u2019s on, baby\u2014we get car chases, we get shootouts, we get stick-ups, we get the whole damn nine yards.<\/p>\n

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A former Dominican Republic espionage type relates a story that\u2019s an extended metaphor for knowing \u201cwhen to get off.\u201d (As in, when to stop, not\u2026 yeah.) We get Jason\u2019s fairly nifty little turnaround jump shot and Lucia doing weights. In an amusing touch, we see an unexpected passenger in the trunk of a car that our protagonists steal, who was apparently doing the \u201ctrunk challenge,\u201d and, on realizing that the car in which he was undertaking said challenge has been hijacked, crows with delight and asks his phone, \u201cHoly shit, chat! What do I do??\u201d And, fatally, we get a mission protecting a dude who\u2019s everyone\u2019s worst cokehead friend combined into one wait-I-have-another<\/em>-idea factory. When a bunch of cartel gunmen descend to shoot everyone in sight, it\u2019s kind of a relief.<\/p>\n

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And that\u2019s it for this extended trailer. So as a lifetime PC user who has never owned a console, I have to say: this looks sick. The quality of the graphics was hard to parse given the load on Netflix\u2019s servers (and their irritating policy of not letting users choose a quality setting manually), but they look on a par with the likes of Cyberpunk 2077<\/em>\u2014to which the gameplay also bore a passing resemblance, on the strength of this viewing, at least. (Escape a job gone wrong and use stealth to descend a tower with everyone looking for you? Hmmm.)<\/p>\n

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But yeah. Insofar as you can tell anything about a game from a trailer, this looks great. And let\u2019s be honest, this could have been half an hour of Pitchfork\u2019s immortal Jet review, and the game would still sell a squillion copies. Bandanas on, bitches.<\/p>\n

The full extended look will be available for all to see on YouTube at 9 p.m. ET, Thursday, August 27.<\/p>\n

PS: Oh, actually, one more thing: who in the world would ever have had money on Cliff Richard featuring in a Grand Theft Auto trailer? But it is indeed Sir Cliff\u2019s \u201cDevil Woman\u201d that soundtracks much of this film. In fairness, it\u2019s a choice that\u2019s more than a little on the nose, given the emphasis on Lucia\u2019s role throughout\u2014guys, a woman can do a pretty awesome job of being a violent criminal too!\u2014but with that said, it works surprisingly well.<\/em><\/p>\n

Update:<\/strong> Rockstar has now uploaded the full extended look on YouTube; watch it below:<\/p>\n