GTA 6
Gameplay
The wanted system now tracks what the police know about you, and there is a wheel for taking your mask off. This is the section for the mechanics, read frame by frame out of the Extended Look.
The strongest thread runs through three separate frames. Under the wanted stars sit small red icons: two figures, a clothes hanger, a face, a car. Ninety seconds later, right after the getaway car is set on fire, the car icon is gone. And on the ITEMS tab of the weapon wheel there is a bandana, a pair of sunglasses, a cap and an outfit, each with a state of ON or OFF. One system, three pieces of evidence, and none of it announced anywhere.
The rest of the section is the same kind of reading. Six wanted stars rather than five. Two money balances with different icons. Three meters instead of two, one of them marked with an eye. A live stream with a chat column running over the driving. A text message from Lucia that hangs in the world and tilts with the camera instead of sitting in a corner of the screen.
Each page shows the frame it comes from with the timecode, so you can check the reading rather than take it. Where a frame comes from our own pass through the video rather than a measured moment, the timecode carries a tilde — it is accurate to about a third of a second, and saying so costs nothing.
13 pages, each one built from the official material.
Extended Look · snt-00157 · ~1:57.01 · placeholder frame
Commanding a dog
A dog you can give orders to. A command menu appears in the corner with SCOLD, PET and STUDY on three buttons,…
Extended Look · snt-00156 · ~0:59.73 · placeholder frame
Dialogue choices
Two dialogue options on screen at once, each on its own button. Grand Theft Auto has never let the player pick a…
Extended Look · snt-00158 · ~2:14.15 · usable frame
Interaction prompts
Not every prompt in GTA 6 sits in a corner. Some of them float on the thing itself — KNOCK, drawn on…
Extended Look · snt-00168 · ~18:25.56 · usable frame
Livestreaming
While the player drives, a live stream runs over the picture: a LIVE badge with 53k viewers, a column of chat messages…
Extended Look · snt-00162 · ~17:50.60 · usable frame
Masks and disguises
The ITEMS tab of the weapon wheel is a disguise wheel. A bandana, a pair of sunglasses, a cap and an outfit,…
Trailer 1 · snt-00025 · 0:47.53 · usable frame
Security cameras
A wall of camera feeds with a timestamp and a camera name on each, seen during a robbery — so security footage…
Trailer 1 · snt-00020 · 0:41.33 · usable frame
The in-game social network
The world has its own social network. Posts appear with a handle and a caption, shot vertically, the way a phone shoots.…
Extended Look · snt-00104 · 15:49.90 · placeholder frame
The minimap
The minimap is a rounded rectangle with a compass letter on its rim, a route drawn in pink and a distance in…
Trailer 1 · snt-00032 · 1:03.57 · usable frame
The news
The news runs on screens inside the world, with a lower third, a timestamp and a helicopter feed — and the story…
Extended Look · snt-00169 · ~23:57.77 · placeholder frame
The phone
A text message from Lucia arrives mid-mission as a card that hangs in the world and tilts with the camera, rather than…
Extended Look · snt-00171 · ~17:43.05 · placeholder frame
The race HUD
Racing has its own readout: lap counter, position out of sixteen, a running time and a minimap with the track on it.…
Extended Look · snt-00160 · ~14:13.32 · placeholder frame
The wanted system
GTA 6's wanted level does something no earlier game in the series did: under the stars sit icons for what the police…
Extended Look · snt-00161 · ~15:57.71 · usable frame
The weapon wheel
One frame of the Extended Look has more information in it than any other: the weapon wheel, open, with three meters, two…