Every official reveal
Trailers & the Extended Look
Rockstar has released three pieces of official GTA 6 footage. Two of them broke records; the third finally showed the game being played.
Short answer
How many GTA 6 trailers are there?
There are two numbered GTA 6 trailers plus a 26-minute gameplay showcase. Trailer 1 arrived 4 December 2023 and set three Guinness World Records with 90.4 million views in 24 hours. Trailer 2 followed on 6 May 2025 with over 475 million views across platforms. An Extended Look premiered 27 August 2026. There was never a Trailer 3.
An Extended Look — 27 August 2026
26 minutes, captured in-game on a PlayStation 5
OfficialRockstar released Grand Theft Auto VI: An Extended Look in a first-of-its-kind partnership with Netflix. Netflix subscribers saw it six hours early at 3pm ET; it went up on the Rockstar Games YouTube channel and the official GTA VI site at 9pm ET the same day.
This is the single most important piece of GTA 6 material to date, because it is the first time Rockstar has shown the game being played rather than presented. Nearly every system on this wiki that carries a “Confirmed” label was confirmed here.
What it showed, by system
| System | What was shown | Page |
|---|---|---|
| Character switching | The full switch flow between Jason and Lucia, including mid-mission and in-vehicle seat swapping. | Gameplay |
| Wanted system | Six stars, plus evidence icons beneath the meter showing what police know about you. | Wanted |
| Criminal Profile | Rockstar's honor successor, shown as a nuanced reputation rather than good/evil. | Profile |
| Combat | Quick two-weapon swapping without the wheel, one-handed weapons, red lethal and yellow non-lethal targeting markers, slow-motion kill cams. | Weapons |
| Carjacking | A slim-jim minigame with timed right-stick inputs; key cloners for electronically locked cars. | Vehicles |
| Activities | Basketball, dirt bike racing, scuba diving, target practice, stock car racing, kayaking, backyard wrestling, bench press, fishing, hunting. | Activities |
| The phone | The phone as a physical object in the character's hand, with the camera moving in close. | Gameplay |
| HUD | 3D building representations on the map, vehicle condition alongside health, an item wheel with face coverings. | Gameplay |
Why Netflix
Rockstar has never used a third-party streaming platform for a reveal before. The practical effect was a six-hour exclusivity window that put GTA 6 in front of a non-gaming audience, on television, in a living room — which is a different distribution strategy from a YouTube drop, not just a different venue.
Trailer 1 — 4 December 2023
The reveal. Rockstar published it a day ahead of the announced 5 December premiere after a version leaked online early — an early sign of how the entire GTA 6 cycle would go.
It set the Guinness World Record for the most-viewed video game trailer in 24 hours, breaking three records at once. Notably, on YouTube alone its 24-hour figure still exceeds Trailer 2's.
- Song: Tom Petty, “Love Is a Long Road” (1989), scoring the entire trailer Official
- Established: Modern-day Vice City, Lucia as protagonist, the state of Leonida, a 2025 target date
- Distribution: YouTube exclusive — which is the key difference from Trailer 2
Trailer 2 — 6 May 2025
Released four days after the first delay announcement, and engineered for reach: every major platform simultaneously rather than a YouTube exclusive.
Rockstar claimed the biggest video launch of all time, ahead of the Deadpool & Wolverine trailer (365M) and The Fantastic Four: First Steps (200M).
Confirmed songs
Five tracks appear across Trailer 2, anchored by the Pointer Sisters' “Hot Together” (1986), with music from Wang Chung, Tammy Wynette, Zenglen and Jay Ferguson also identified. Full soundtrack tracker →
What it established
- Jason Duval as the second protagonist, and the pair as a couple
- The Phil's Ammu-Nation commercial — the first look at the weapon retailer Confirmed
- A V-Rock logo on Jason's t-shirt, still the strongest hint at a returning radio station Unconfirmed
- Much more of Leonida beyond Vice City: the Keys, wetlands, industrial coast
Was there ever a Trailer 3?
Short answer: not as such. Through mid-2026 the expectation across the community and the trade press — including Insider Gaming's Tom Henderson, who anticipated something around 6 August, near Take-Two's earnings call — was a conventional third trailer.
What Rockstar actually did was skip the format entirely and release 26 minutes of gameplay instead. The Extended Look is not a trailer, and Rockstar has not labelled it one.
A launch trailer is still expected
UnconfirmedRockstar has released a dedicated launch trailer for every recent major title, typically two to four weeks before release. On that pattern, expect one in late October or early November 2026. Nothing has been announced.
Teasers and smaller drops
Development confirmed
A Rockstar newswire post acknowledges the next Grand Theft Auto is in active development. No footage.
Announcement of the announcement
Rockstar confirms the first trailer will arrive in early December, setting off the largest pre-trailer news cycle the series has had.
Trailer 1
Released a day early after a leak. Sets three Guinness records.
Trailer 2
Cross-platform simultaneous release. 475M views in 24 hours.
30-second Netflix teaser
Announces the Extended Look date, shows new footage of Jason and Lucia, and gives fans what many read as the game's theme song.
An Extended Look
26 minutes of PS5 gameplay across Netflix, YouTube and the official site.
Common questions
Short, direct answers. Each one links to the section above that explains it in full.
How many GTA 6 trailers are there?#
Two numbered trailers — December 2023 and May 2025 — plus a 26-minute Extended Look gameplay showcase released 27 August 2026.
Was there a GTA 6 Trailer 3?#
No. Rockstar skipped a conventional third trailer and released the 26-minute Extended Look gameplay showcase instead.
What song is in the first GTA 6 trailer?#
Tom Petty's 'Love Is a Long Road' (1989) scores the entire first trailer.
How many views did the GTA 6 trailer get?#
Trailer 1 reached 90,421,491 YouTube views in 24 hours and set three Guinness World Records. Trailer 2 reached over 475 million views across all platforms in 24 hours.
Sources
Every claim on this page traces back to one of the following. Rockstar Games newswire posts and the official Extended Look are treated as primary; everything else is labelled in-line.