Game systems

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Jason inside Sara's Unisex Salon wearing a full mullet

Appearance and style

Spotted in trailer

Hair, clothes and body are not only cosmetic. The police build a description from your face, your clothes and your car, so a barber or a…
A street shootout with the wanted meter and the four recognition icons on screen, from the GTA 6 Extended Look

The bank account and cash at risk

Confirmed

Money you are carrying is genuinely at risk: Wasted or Busted takes all of it. Rob Nelson says that is what the in-game bank account is…
A timed gun-range run with targets remaining and a clock on screen, from the GTA 6 Extended Look

Carrying a long gun

Confirmed

A rifle no longer lives in your pocket. You take it out of a locker at Ammu-Nation or out of your own car, and once it is in your hands…
Jason with a carbine and Lucia with a pistol in a jewellery store, shattered display glass in the air

Switching between Jason and Lucia

Spotted in trailer

Instant while the pair share a scene, a few seconds when they are apart, and the character you drop keeps acting: driving the line…
Combat

Combat

Spotted in trailer

Fighting in GTA 6 asks for inputs where the older games played an animation. Grapples are broken by tapping, counters and disarms sit in a…
Jason with a carbine and Lucia with a pistol against a wall in a dark room, police lights outside

Criminal Profile

Confirmed

The game grades what kind of criminal you are, professional or violent and dangerous, and that reading decides how Leonida reacts to you…
A night boulevard in Vice City with the wanted meter on screen

Focus mode

Spotted in trailer

Police are gone from the minimap. Focus takes their place: hold it and the game surfaces what is around you, including officers, detail…
Lucia sitting on a pink bed in the shared apartment, from the GTA 6 Extended Look

Hideouts

Confirmed

Where the pair sleep is not a safehouse you buy and keep. Rob Nelson says hideouts move with the chapters, and describes them as closer to…
An in-mission text message from Lucia describing the enemies ahead, from the GTA 6 Extended Look

The bond between Jason and Lucia

Confirmed

Whether the two move through the story as a couple or as accomplices is your call. The bond has a status in the menu next to the bank…
A mud-covered crowd on off-road buggies at a field party

Crowds and NPC behaviour

Spotted in trailer

Previews report more than 600,000 NPC animations against roughly 55,000 in GTA 5, with characters art-directed rather than procedurally…
The pause map

The pause map

Spotted in trailer

At 19:00 of the Extended Look the pause map opens and Leonida is drawn as photographic imagery seen from above, with the road network laid…
A man with dreadlocks checking his phone in a dim room

The phone and its apps

Spotted in trailer

The phone is handled as a physical object rather than a flat menu: the camera moves in on the character's hand. Snapmatic returns as the…
Jason and Lucia in body armour inside a bank vault, rifles in hand and banknotes in the air

Robberies and money

Spotted in trailer

Money gates parts of the campaign: some chapters do not open until a certain amount is in hand. A robbery turns on one decision, get out…
Jason moving through the trap house with the health bar and ammo counter on screen, from the GTA 6 Extended Look

Suppressive fire

Confirmed

A way to use a gun without killing anyone. You deliberately miss, putting rounds near a target instead of into it, to pin people down and…
A cream convertible parked outside the Bayside storefronts

Vehicle theft

Spotted in trailer

Taking a parked car is a job with steps: a phone app scans it first and reports the value, the registration cost, the alarm and any…
Firing on a police pickup with the wanted meter and an ammo count on screen

The wanted system

Spotted in trailer

Six star slots and a row of four icons that say what the police actually know about you. Losing a chase means breaking that description…