GTA 6 Extended Look Premieres on Netflix

Grand Theft Auto VI: An Extended Look premiered on Netflix on August 27 at 3 p.m. ET, a full six hours before Rockstar released it for free on YouTube and the official GTA VI site at 9 p.m. ET. By the next morning, the 26 minute 48 second video had already climbed past 12.3 million views on Rockstar’s YouTube channel.

A six-hour head start on Netflix

The Netflix premiere is, in Netflix’s own words, a “first-of-its-kind partnership,” according to Variety. Rockstar Newswire confirmed the split release explicitly: the Extended Look would “premiere on Netflix Thursday, August 27 at 3 p.m. ET and will also launch on the official Rockstar Games YouTube channel and the Grand Theft Auto VI site at 9 p.m. ET on August 27.” That six-hour window gave Netflix subscribers first access to the most substantial look at GTA 6 gameplay to date, before the video became available to everyone.

Rockstar describes the video as “captured entirely from in-game footage on the PlayStation 5,” calling it the “biggest, most immersive evolution of the series yet.”

What the video shows

The Extended Look follows Jason Duval and Lucia Caminos through Leonida in a mix of story beats and open-world activity: heists, shootouts, car chases, and switching between the two protagonists mid-scene, alongside side activities like kayaking, diving, jet-skiing, fishing, basketball, the gym, dirt biking, mini-golf, billiards, skydiving, and nightclubs, according to press coverage from GameSpot and GamesRadar following the reveal. For a closer look at the characters featured, see our character profiles.

New systems Rockstar confirmed

Alongside the video, Rockstar briefed press on several gameplay systems, reported by VGC, GameSpot, and PC Gamer. The wanted level returns to a 6-star maximum, up from GTA V’s cap of 5, and police now track four separate factors: face, clothing, vehicle, and whether Jason and Lucia are together. Players can switch between the two leads in the middle of a mission, weapons can be swapped on the fly without opening the weapon wheel, and a new “Criminal Profile” system tracks reputation in a way Rockstar compared to the honor system in Red Dead Redemption 2. Rockstar also confirmed there will be no microtransactions in the single-player campaign and no generative AI used in development, both according to GameSpot and GamesRadar.

The performance question

Rockstar told press at the briefing that GTA 6 will run at 30 frames per second on PS5 and Xbox Series consoles at launch, with no performance mode confirmed, as reported by Push Square and Tom’s Hardware. A day later, Digital Foundry’s technical analysis, relayed by Push Square, found the Extended Look running at a 4K image upscaled from a 1440p base, with a broadly stable 30 fps. Digital Foundry considers a 60 fps mode unlikely even on PS5 Pro.

“The game will ship on time”

In an interview with Dazed, reported by VGC, Rockstar North co-studio head Rob Nelson said the story draws inspiration from Bonnie and Clyde, and that Rockstar has roughly doubled in size since finishing Red Dead Redemption 2. Toward the end of August, Nelson reiterated that GTA 6 remains on track for its November 19 release, and said he hopes the Extended Look puts to rest concerns about the game’s quality that had built up during recent weeks of leaks.

You can track exactly how much time is left on our countdown page, and catch up on every trailer so far in our video coverage.