12 Years in the Making… GTA 6 Extended Look is Freaky Realistic, but is it Really Better Than 5?
Rockstar has been delaying the release of Grand Theft Auto VI and by the looks of the Netflix Extended look that released today, it seems like it was worth the wait! From a jaw-dropping realistic gameplay police chase to an underwater world and roof-top dining, GTA VI Vice CIty (Miami) looks like a game that took more than a decade to make.
After a long time waiting around for some further, concrete details about the highly-anticipated GTA 6, the GTA 6 Extended Look has premiered on Netflix (a world first for game trailers) to give us a much closer look as to what we can expect from the city of Leonida, and the story of the protagonist couple, Jason and Lucia.
Here is a recap of what we saw:
You can pet dogs
A first for GTA (unless you bought a mansion in GTA Online, you'll now be able to pet – and even scold or study – dogs in GTA 6. What other animals will we be able to interact with?
There's cellulite and improved character animations
Hyper-realistic graphics and attention to detail are something we're not strangers to in 2026, but GTA 6's characters have real, visible cellulite, and they move in a way that looks incredibly human, as opposed to the mostly robotic movements of characters in GTA V and earlier games in the series.
Think Red Dead Redemption when thinking about this. It's clear, from the cellulite and character animations alone, that Rockstar looks to promote realism when it comes to its character models and world, more than ever before.
Classic GTA shootouts remain, with slow-motion moments
As we've come to expect from the GTA series, the GTA 6 Extended Look has concluded the pick-up scene with a classic GTA shootout, featuring bloody violence, gunplay, taking cover, and even slow-mo shooting moments that are akin to Red Dead Redemption 2's Deadeye mechanic.
Carjacking is more complex
Breaking into and stealing cars is, of course, present in the GTA 6 Extended Look. A core component of the series, grand theft auto, is in the name of the game after all, so hotwiring the cars of strangers and driving off into the night is still very much, unsurprisingly, present.
Relationship Options
The protagonist couple Jason and Lucia will be engaging in robberies together or completing story missions, but you can work on your relationship with one another too. You can bond with your significant other in conversation, seemingly go shopping together (we see Lucia ask Jason to pick a dress out for her, and Jason give the option to hurry her when getting ready), and ultimately, just hang out with one another as couples do. You can even press R2 to hold hands at some point.
Outrageous TV adverts
GTA 5 had its fair share of interesting television and radio adverts, and GTA 6 looks to be no different. The GTA 6 Extended Look shows off two new commercials we can expect to see in-game. The first is for an antidepressant known as Angstipan, while the second is for a comical, gargantuan bit of food known as The Prairie Sandwich, which boasts a whopping 30,000 calories. Given that we already know that GTA 6 is going to have mechanics with weight gain and body shape, the Prairie Sandwich will be a test of your gym body.
The Results
GTA VI has an incredible upgrade to the look of the characters in game, but driving around town didn’t seem to have that much of an upgrade. We’ll have to see that for ourselves and the new Game mechanics when we can finally play ourselves.
GTA VI is scheduled to launch Nov. 19 on Playstation 5 and Xbox series X/S and is available to pre-order now through the Rockstar Games Site.
