Summary
For the best part of a decade, fans have been desperately pleading for aGrand Theft Auto 6reveal, and the anticipation for the sequel reached a fever pitch with a sudden influx of information brought about by the monumental Rockstar leaks of last September. With entire early builds of the game leaking online, eager fans were able to dive into the well-unfinished project and learn a ton of information about the sequel, includingGTA 6’s assumed protagonists, a man and a woman, both partners in crime and life.
Many fans pretty much believed theseGrand Theft Auto 6leaks wholeheartedly, and over the last year or so those same fans have been convinced thatGTA 6will follow these two leaked protagonists. Well, it seems as though those leaks might have been true after all, asGrand Theft Auto 6’s reveal trailerputs the duo front and center. But whileGTAfans are now accustomed to multiple playable protagonists,Grand Theft Auto 6’s duo might differ fromGTA 5’s team in some pretty major ways.
GTA 6’s Main Protagonist Dynamic Will Be Very Different From GTA 5’s
GTA 5 Centered on a Misfit Team of Criminals
What was a major departure for the franchise at that point,Grand Theft Auto 5gave players three playable characters. While main missions usually had to be played as a specific character, players could swap characters on the fly while in free-roam.Michael, Trevor, and Franklin, each of these characters is fairly distinct from one another, but all end up joining forces to go on a crime spree through Los Santos.
After a robbery goes south, Michael escapes to Los Santos where he spends the next nine years trying his hardest to live a “normal” suburban life. However, that soon falls apart when he encounters the aspirational criminal and former gang member Franklin, who ends up inadvertently breaking Michael out of his midlife crisis by helping him get back into a life of crime, which in turn ends up bringing Trevor - one of Michael’s former heist partners - back into his life. While thethreeGrand Theft Auto 5protagonistsare often viewed as close partners in crime, there’s always an underlying sense of tension between them, and a feeling that none of them trust each other.
GTA 6 is Focusing on a Bonny and Clyde-Like Duo
Grand Theft Auto 6, on the other hand, is going for a much more personal dynamic between its two protagonists. WhenGTA 6’s protagonists were first leaked over a year ago, it was rumored that their dynamic was heavilyinspired by the real-life crime partners Bonny and Clyde, and the officialGTA 6reveal trailer does seem to lean into this theory pretty heavily.
During theGrand Theft Auto 6reveal trailer, fans see Lucia and her still-unnamed partner a handful of times. In these brief snippets, the duo are portrayed as romantic partners who commit robberies together, just like Bonny and Clyde. The trailer ends with Lucia asking her partner, “Trust?” to which he replies “Trust” back, and the camera cuts to them robbing a convenience store.
Ending the trailer like this is probably no coincidence, and it seems likely that Rockstar really wants to leave fans with the feeling that this relationship and, presumably tumultuous, romance is going to be at the very heart ofGrand Theft Auto 6’s story, acting as the main source of drama for the whole narrative. WhileGTA 5occasionally played up the drama between its protagonists, especially during its final mission, it seems as thoughGTA 6is leaning all the way into that.
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