GTA 6 Extended Gameplay Look: Full Breakdown

Rockstar's extended gameplay look — the reveal that premiered on Netflix — is the longest stretch of real GTA 6 gameplay shown before launch, captured on a base PS5. Here's what happens, and what it reveals about the systems.

1. The pickup for Boobie

Jason and Lucia walk up to an apartment block to collect something for Boobie. The first thing to notice: the L2 interaction system from Red Dead Redemption 2 is back — Jason focuses on a dog and gets Scold, Pet and Study (R1). Inside, Ramon ("Ray") is in a holding pattern because his partner has gone off the grid — until a call from Ernesto warns that "friends on the task force" are on their way.

2. The raid

A heavily armed task force storms the building, led by someone the gang recognise as Mendez. A cover-based shootout follows: Jason and Lucia take cover, pick up dropped weapons, and Jason calls for covering fire, which Lucia provides. Max Payne 3-style slow-motion kill cams play out, and a man is smashed through a wall. They escape through a neighbour's cramped apartment and out a window.

3. Home life

A montage: breaking into a car with a slim jim or by smashing the window, the weapon and item wheels (body armour, health items), bank and cash shown top-right. At their Vice City apartment, Jason switches lights, watches TV (a Prairie Burger ad), and opens the fridge — two beers and a Blitzberry smoothie that appears to restore energy and focus. He holds the door for Lucia on the way out, and they drive off in a red late-'80s German-style sports sedan.

4. The open world

Traffic, roadworks, bus stops and crowded sidewalks. Jason eats on the go to restore health. A hood slide into a shootout. Lucia's hand-to-hand combat with counters. Backyard wrestling. Lucia wields a shotgun one-handed.

5. Drinks with Brian and Lori

At a rooftop bar, Jason and Lucia meet Brian and Lori Heder; Lucia mentions Snapmatic, and you hold R2 to hold hands. A diner robbery cuts in. Brian tells the carousel story — "You gotta know when to get off, Jason." A job comes in for tonight, and only one of them can go.

6. Raul's test

Delivering a car to a cautious new contact, the pair decide on a "slow play." That contact, Raul, drags them into a police pursuit: Jason leans out of the window shooting at a helicopter and police pickups, hitting engines, windshields and tyres. At four stars, they duck into a parking lot, burn the car and swap into a van — the vehicle heat icon disappears and the cops drive past. "A professional adapts." Raul tells them to keep their phones on. They're in his crew.

7. Activities

Jason shoots hoops in the driveway. Scuba diving. Lucia's gym workout is trigger-driven. Packed beaches. Character switching while driving. A two-star HUD with car, face and clothes identified. A rooftop leap over Vice City at night.

8. The Andres de Leon party

The finale echoes Max Payne 3: Jason and Lucia are hired security for Andres de Leon, a celebrity client, at a party celebrating Mega Mundo's first U.S. headquarters. Val briefs them; Petra Navarro, Mega Mundo's COO, is introduced. A security guard takes Lucia's guns. Andres skips the speech for a "think tank" upstairs. Then masked gunmen crash the party, and it all goes wrong.

9. Racing and the sign-off

Street racing with nitrous, a live-streamer doing the trunk challenge in a stolen car, and the closing card: Captured on PS5.

What we learned

• The heat icons are real and readable at a glance.
• Six stars are on the HUD.
• Focus offers headshots, knee shots and disarming shots.
• Missions are less on-rails — you can take any route during police escapes.
• The score is upbeat and '80s-flavoured; licensed tracks include "Let Your Love Flow" and "People Are People."