Every GTA 6 Trailer Detail You Missed: The Official List

TL;DR

Two GTA 6 trailers exist: December 4, 2023 and May 6, 2025. Much of what circulates as a trailer detail was never in a trailer — it came off Rockstar’s website. This page says which is which.

Rockstar has named six regions of Leonida: Vice City, the Leonida Keys, Grassrivers, Mount Kalaga, Port Gellhorn and Ambrosia.

The songs are Tom Petty’s “Love Is a Long Road” and The Pointer Sisters’ “Hot Together,” both period American pop.

No official map size exists, no voice cast is confirmed, no online mode is announced.

New footage has a date: Rockstar announced An Extended Look on August 6, 2026 and premiered it on August 27; the official upload runs 26:49. It has not called it Trailer 3. This is the baseline to diff it against.

Start with the thing that breaks most of these lists before they begin: a large share of what gets filed as a “Trailer 2 detail” never appeared in Trailer 2. It came from the website Rockstar shipped around it — character bios, region pages, a store listing. Sources even disagree on whether some supporting-character bios first went up in December 2023 or in the May 2025 site update, which is why this page attributes them to Rockstar’s site rather than pinning them to a video.

That is the rule everything below runs on: what Rockstar published, and where it published it. Roundups that skip the second half are how a product-page bullet ends up cited as a frame someone spotted. The fan-made material is separated out at the end.

The two trailers, and what each one was for

Trailer 1 landed Monday, December 4, 2023, roughly a minute and a half long, and it did one job: establish the state and the pair. Lucia and Jason, sun, and the Miami-shaped city — or as Rockstar’s accompanying Newswire post put it, Leonida is home to “the neon-soaked streets of Vice City.” It broke three Guinness World Records inside 24 hours, including most viewed videogame trailer on YouTube in 24 hours at 90.4 million views. That is the certified figure; the larger totals people quote are live view counters, which nobody certifies. Our GTA 6 first trailer recap handles that dispute and the two competing debut dates.

Trailer 2 arrived on May 6, 2025, under the tagline “Explore Vice City and beyond,” and did something very different. It was longer, denser, and cut to a full song. The character and region pages now on Rockstar’s site are commonly associated with the Trailer 2 window, though Rockstar itself doesn’t date them — which is the provenance problem this page opened with, in its most consequential form. At that point the game was still wishlist-only: no pre-orders, no pricing.

The gap between them is the detail nobody clocks: seventeen months between Trailer 1 and Trailer 2, and, as of August 2026, over a year since Trailer 2 with no third trailer released. Rockstar has spaced this campaign’s beats a long way apart. It revealed cover art on June 18, 2026 and opened pre-orders on June 25 without a new trailer attached — an unusual choice that tells you the marketing is deliberately back-loaded rather than exhausted. Its official site also carries a large batch of official screenshots; Rockstar puts no publication date on them, so nobody outside the studio can say when they went up.

Locations: six regions, named on a web page rather than shown

Rockstar has named and described six regions of Leonida on its Only in Leonida pages: Vice City, the Leonida Keys, Grassrivers, Mount Kalaga, Port Gellhorn and Ambrosia. Dense city, island chain, wetland, mountain, port town, rural county — that is a state, not a city. Our GTA 6 all locations guide takes each one apart.

The provenance point is the one that belongs here. Those six came from a web page, not from footage, and Rockstar has never captioned a shot as belonging to a named region. So every “you can see Port Gellhorn at 0:42” claim is a viewer matching a description to an image. Sometimes convincingly, always as inference. What none of it produces is a measured number — see the last section.

Characters: who Rockstar has actually named, and where

The leads are Jason Duval and Lucia Caminos, framed by Rockstar as a crime couple. Six supporting characters carry Rockstar-written bios: Cal Hampton, Boobie Ike, Brian Heder, Dre’Quan Priest, Raul Bautista and the Real Dimez duo. Who they are and how they connect is our GTA 6 main characters piece; Lucia gets her own in lucia caminos backstory.

Three things about that roster are provenance details rather than cast details, which is why they belong on this page. Lori, Brian’s third wife, exists only inside Brian’s bio — she is a name with no page of her own, and lists that print her as a seventh character have upgraded her without noticing. Lucia’s release from Leonida Penitentiary is stated in a bio, not shown: the story starts with her already out, which rules out the prison-break opening a lot of people read into Trailer 1’s imagery. And voice casting has never been officially confirmed for any role, including Lucia — reports have named actors, Rockstar has not, so a “confirmed voice actor” line is press reporting wearing a credit’s clothes.

Vehicles and activities visible in the footage

This is where detail lists usually start inventing things, so keep it to what the footage shows and what Rockstar describes.

Trailer 1’s visible content included beaches and bayous, cars racing on highways, speedboats, and dirt bikes weaving through traffic. That’s a short list, but it’s a deliberate one: land, water and dirt in ninety seconds, which is Rockstar signalling that the state is the point.

The activity set attached to the regions comes from Rockstar’s own region descriptions rather than inference. Mount Kalaga’s copy names “prime hunting, fishing, and off-road trails.” Grassrivers’ copy names gators as the famous attraction and promises “far deadlier predators and weirder discoveries among the mangroves” — no hunting or fishing is listed there, whatever the roundups say. Port Gellhorn’s copy runs the other way, describing a forgotten coast of cheap motels, shut-down attractions and empty strip malls, and closing by pointing you at a dirt bike.

The Ultimate Edition listing adds a few concrete vehicles and venues to the world’s vocabulary: a ‘95 Grotti Cheetah, the Hawk & Little Morgan Revolvers, a ‘67 Vapid Dominator Buggy, and named locations like Rideout Customs Mod Shop, Sara’s Unisex Salon and Stock 305 Clothing Store. Rockstar’s own game page goes one better on the revolvers, describing them as sourced from the Vercetti Estate. Those are storefront details rather than trailer frames, but they are first-party and they name real places in the map.

For the mechanics side — mission structure, switching between the two leads, in-game phone — a lot of what circulates traces to a product listing rather than to trailer footage. Treat it accordingly, and see our gta 6 gameplay features breakdown for what actually holds up.

Music and tone: the two songs did real damage

Trailer 1 ran on Tom Petty’s “Love Is a Long Road” — you can hear it start to finish in the official upload. It’s an album cut rather than a hit single, commonly dated to Petty’s late-’80s solo work, which is exactly the kind of pick that signals curation over licensing muscle.

Trailer 2 ran on “Hot Together” by The Pointer Sisters, audible throughout the official Trailer 2 upload and generally dated to the trio’s mid-’80s run. The attribution is the part worth keeping straight: this is The Pointer Sisters, not a needle-drop from some Vice City-era compilation.

The tonal read is worth making explicit, because it’s a real detail rather than a vibe. Both picks are period American pop with a road-and-heat feel, both are pre-2000, and neither is a licensing flex aimed at a 2026 chart audience. Rockstar is scoring Leonida the way it scored the trailers for a 1980s-inflected Florida: warm, slightly worn, and knowingly nostalgic without the game itself being a period piece.

Technical and visual details on the record

The confirmed technical facts are shorter than the speculation, and more useful.

You will see it repeated everywhere that Trailer 2’s footage was captured on PS5, and that one is actually on the record — just not where most people look. The Newswire post doesn’t say it; Rockstar’s description on the official Trailer 2 upload does, stating the trailer was captured entirely in-game from a PlayStation 5 and is “comprised of equal parts gameplay and cutscenes.” That second half matters: don’t read the whole cut as raw gameplay. Also on the record: the game ships on PS5 and Xbox Series X|S on November 19, 2026, and the official US PlayStation listing carries a PS5 Pro Enhanced badge with details undisclosed.

Rockstar’s official framing of the game is that GTA VI is a single-player experience. There is no online mode announced for launch — no date, no format, no roadmap. That is a trailer-adjacent detail people consistently get wrong, because two trailers of city life read as multiplayer footage to anyone primed for it.

Beyond that, the official screenshots on Rockstar’s own site fill in more visual material than either trailer did. Stills you can study at your own pace beat two cuts of fast-moving footage for anyone genuinely hunting detail, and they are just as official. If you have combed both trailers frame by frame and come up empty, that’s the richer vein right now.

What is not a trailer detail

The most common “detail you missed” claims are not details at all. Rockstar has published no map size for GTA 6, and we have found no official figure for GTA 5 either. The 2x-GTA-5 comparisons, interior counts and points-of-interest tallies in circulation trace back to fan measurement or to leaked material, not to a Rockstar number. Our gta 6 map size piece walks through why the popular figures don’t hold.

Same treatment applies to the mechanics that circulate from the 2022 material — witness and NPC memory systems, prone movement, body dragging, evidence AI. None of that has been officially shown. Weather-driven hurricane gameplay, fuel systems and sunburn are not in anything Rockstar has published either; they come out of trailer analysis.

What to watch

New footage now has a date. On August 6, 2026 Rockstar announced Grand Theft Auto VI: An Extended Look for August 27. It premiered on Netflix at 3 p.m. ET and arrived on Rockstar’s own YouTube channel and the GTA VI site at 9 p.m. ET. Rockstar has not called it Trailer 3. Its official upload runs 26:49, but Rockstar published no format or content detail, and what the thing actually shows is not established here, because we have not watched it. Take-Two reported its Q1 FY2027 results on August 7, and the written release restated the November 19, 2026 launch date twice while saying nothing about a trailer, about footage, or about An Extended Look. It added no detail to this list. The numbers are on our Take-Two Q1 FY2027 page. Now the footage has landed, the useful move is to diff it against this list: any region beyond the six, any named character beyond Rockstar’s current roster, any first-party number attached to the map. Those are the details that will actually be new. The single biggest gap a third trailer could close is the villain — the unnamed cop from Trailer 2 is the most over-read frame in the whole campaign, and we weigh it in the GTA 6 antagonist.

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