GTA 6: everything we know about the characters, map, vehicles, trailers and release

Rockstar’s premise: Jason and Lucia have always known the deck is stacked against them. When an easy score goes wrong, they are pulled into a criminal conspiracy that stretches across Leonida, and they have to rely on each other to get out of it.

It is the first GTA with two playable leads you switch between in the same mission, and the first with a female protagonist. The 27-minute Extended Look in August 2026 also showed a wanted level of up to six stars that reacts to your clothes, face and car.

The two protagonists

• Jason Duval: grew up around grifters, served in the Army and now works for drug runners in the Leonida Keys. Rockstar sums him up as a man who wants an easy life while things keep getting harder.
• Lucia Caminos: trained to fight by her father, she came to Leonida from Liberty City and went to Leonida Penitentiary for protecting her family. She is out now and plans to play it smart.

Supporting cast with official Rockstar profiles

• Cal Hampton: Jason’s friend and fellow worker for Brian, a homebody who listens in on Coast Guard radio.
• Brian Heder: an old-school drug runner in the Keys who still moves product through his boat yard. He lets Jason live in one of his properties rent-free in return for help with local shakedowns.
• Lori Heder: Brian’s third wife, named as Lori in his Rockstar profile and seen beside him in the Extended Look.
• Boobie Ike: a Vice City local legend who turned his criminal past into a real estate, strip club and recording studio empire.
• Dre’Quan Priest: a former street dealer chasing a music career, signed to Boobie’s label. More hustler than gangster.
• Real Dimez: Bae-Luxe and Roxy, school friends turned social media stars and rappers on Only Raw Records.
• Raul Bautista: a charming, confident bank robber who recruits people willing to take big risks.

Seen in the Extended Look (no official profile yet)

These characters appear in Rockstar’s August 2026 gameplay video. Their names come from the video and fan transcripts, not from Rockstar character pages.

• Andrés de León: a wealthy associate of the company Megamundo whom Jason and Lucia are hired to protect, and who is taken hostage at a party.
• Valentina: the fixer who hires them for that job, called “Val” in the video. Fans identify her with the Valentina from GTA Online.
• Raymond: his Vice City apartment is where Jason and Lucia make a pickup for Boobie in the first mission shown.
• Méndez: a Vice City police officer who leads the raid on that pickup.

Rockstar has named six regions of the state of Leonida. It has not published a map size; the “twice the size of GTA V” figure is a fan estimate.

• Vice City: still the sun and fun capital of America, in Rockstar’s words. Based on Miami.
• Leonida Keys: a laid-back chain of tropical islands, modelled on the Florida Keys.
• Grassrivers: a wild wetland Rockstar calls the untamable jewel of Leonida, based on the Everglades.
• Port Gellhorn: Leonida’s forgotten coast of cheap motels, closed attractions and empty strip malls.
• Ambrosia: an industrial heartland built around a sugar refinery, watched over by a biker gang.
• Mount Kalaga National Park: hunting, fishing and off-road trails on Leonida’s northern border.

Inside them, Rockstar has also named smaller areas such as Vice Beach, Rockridge, Stockyard, Washington Beach, Watson Bay, Gambit Bay and Lake Leonida.

These are the named vehicles Rockstar has confirmed, all from the editions announced in June 2026:

• ’95 Grotti Cheetah: a mid-1990s sports car with a retro livery. Ultimate Edition.
• Dinka Enduro: an Army-styled motorbike, one of Jason’s safehouse vehicles. Ultimate Edition.
• Crest Kayak: the other safehouse vehicle. Ultimate Edition.
• Shitzu Squalo: a pink and blue boat docked at Washington Beach, with a crate of explosives. Ultimate Edition.
• Vapid Ganado: Jason’s well-worn pickup, which everyone gets. The Ultimate Edition adds the Ganado Retro Build mods.
• ’67 Vapid Dominator Buggy: a mud-club off-roader for Mount Kalaga, with the Paradise Garage in Watson Bay. Ultimate Edition.
• ’55 Vapid Stanier: a classic sedan with a garage, in the Vintage Vice City Pack for purchases made before November 20.

Rockstar has named these places so far. They open only with the Ultimate Edition:

• One-Eyed Willie’s: a Lake Leonida mod shop for off-road builds and hand-painted cars.
• Rideout Customs: a mod shop for detailed interiors, rims and donk styles.
• Sara’s Unisex Salon: hair for both leads, plus facial hair for Jason and makeup and nails for Lucia.
• Stock 305: a streetwear store in Stockyard.
• Electric Fang Tattoo: a Stockyard tattoo parlor with more than 50 designs by the art collective FAILE.

The Ultimate Edition also adds Goodtime Gear clothing and a raidable gang compound, the PTT Youngin$ Compound.

Rockstar’s GTA VI videos so far, oldest first. There is no “Trailer 3”: the third full trailer is the Launch Trailer.

1. Trailer 1, December 4, 2023: released a day early after it leaked. Introduced Lucia and modern Vice City, to Tom Petty’s “Love Is a Long Road”. It set a YouTube record of 93 million views in 24 hours. Watch on YouTube.
2. Trailer 2, May 6, 2025: Jason and Lucia and the supporting cast, to The Pointer Sisters’ “Hot Together”, captured on PS5. Watch on YouTube.
3. Cover art reveal, June 18, 2026: a short video of the official cover, announcing pre-orders. Watch on YouTube.
4. An Extended Look teaser, August 6, 2026: announced the gameplay premiere on Netflix. Watch on YouTube.
5. An Extended Look, August 27, 2026: about 27 minutes of single-player gameplay on PS5, premiered on Netflix and then posted to YouTube (age-restricted). Watch on YouTube.
6. Launch Trailer, October 15, 2026: about 90 seconds, set to Justice’s “Flower in a Hurricane”, ending on the November 19 date. Watch on YouTube.

• Names from the Extended Look. Andrés de León, Valentina, Raymond and Méndez have no Rockstar profiles yet; their names and spellings come from the gameplay video and fan transcripts.
• Map size. Rockstar has not published one.
• PC date. A report, not an announcement.
• GTA Online for GTA VI. Not announced.
• Budget. No official figure; every number in circulation is an estimate.