The GTA 6 trailer landed 8 weeks ago – what has the Grand Theft Auto community been speculating about since?

Grand Theft Autopsy | From Lucia’s actor to the unnamed co-protagonist’s role, we dissect the biggest GTA 6 rumors

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Welcome to Grand Theft Autopsy, a new recurring feature here on GamesRadar+ where we dissect the latest news, rumors and general goings on inGTA 6. In the wake of last month’s explosive trailer, Rockstar itself has stayed silent – but its community definitelyhas not, speculating on everything from potential story threads to character backstories, map size and so much more.

It’s now been eight weeks since that trailer hit our screens, and Rockstar, it seems, has used the time between to kick back and let would-be players the world over soak it all in. At the time of writing, the 90-second short has accrued 171 million views on the developer’sofficial YouTube channel, and umpteen online forums and community hubs are now chock-full of weird and wonderful theories on what it all might mean.

Here, GamesRadar+’s Features Editor Joe Donnelly, and Video Producer Tom Farthing explore some of the most prevalent guesswork, while throwing in their two cents along the way.

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Joe Donnelly is a sports editor from Glasgow and former features editor at GamesRadar+. A mental health advocate, Joe has written about video games and mental health for The Guardian, New Statesman, VICE, PC Gamer and many more, and believes the interactive nature of video games makes them uniquely placed to educate and inform. His book Checkpoint considers the complex intersections of video games and mental health, and was shortlisted for Scotland’s National Book of the Year for non-fiction in 2021. As familiar with the streets of Los Santos as he is the west of Scotland, Joe can often be found living his best and worst lives in GTA Online and its PC role-playing scene.

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