It’s been a week of highs and lows for GTA fans. Though the start date has been pushed back (yet again), Rockstar has at least thrown us a bone in the shape of a second trailer drop, which reveals still more about the seedy Vice City and the crooks inhabiting it.
Now, we have a full length trailer which reveals more than ever about the game’s main characters, Jason and Lucia - as well as a release date of May 26, 2026. Yes, it’s still over a year away, but at least we get to sink our teeth into everything the trailer reveals.
Mostly, that’s about the main characters. We start with Jason (who now has a surname: Duval), who seems to be mending houses for a local landlord, Brian. Clearly, there’s no love lost there (Brian tells him off for not doing more for “paying tenants”) but we’re soon following Jason as he sets off in his car, robbing tills from local shops, buying beers and working out at the beach – for what GTA game would be complete without a beachside gym.
Soon enough, we find out the real reason for his trip: he rocks up at the Vice City Penitentiary to meet Lucia Caminos, presumably his girlfriend, who’s being released.
They waste no time going back to their old ways. The trailer shows us lots of sex, as well as the pair robbing businessmen at gunpoint – which makes sense, as the game has been described as a ‘Bonnie and Clyde’ style affair.
“Trust me, this place is just the start for us,” Lucia says at one point. “The only thing that matters is who you know and what you got.”
“We gonna do this, we’re doing it right,” Jason replies, which does rather imply that the pair are eyeing up a big job. But the police are also on their tail – we see footage of Lucia jumping out of a window, followed by footage of the cops scoping out a warehouse. Are they corrupt cops? Most probably - one tells his pals that they have to “look out for each other.”
Rockstar have also released brand new info on their website - which is currently crashing. But there is a description on the video itself, which states that “Jason and Lucia have always known the deck is stacked against them. But when an easy score goes wrong, they find themselves on the darkest side of the sunniest place in America, in the middle of a criminal conspiracy stretching across the state of Leonida — forced to rely on each other more than ever if they want to make it out alive."
The site offers more details on the characters themselves. Lucia’s "father taught her to fight as soon as she could walk. Life has been coming at her swinging ever since. Fighting for her family landed her in the Leonida Penitentiary. Sheer luck got her out. Lucia's learned her lesson – only smart moves from here."
For his part, Jason "wants an easy life, but things just keep getting harder." The character "grew up around grifters and crooks," and "after a stint in the Army trying to shake off his troubled teens, he found himself in the Keys doing what he knows best, working for local drug runners. It might be time to try something new." According to his bio, meeting Lucia "could be the best or worst thing to ever happen to him. Jason knows how he'd like it to turn out but right now, it's hard to tell."
Though we don’t know a hell of a lot more about the plot, we do see all the GTA touchstones: nightclubs (with strippers, of course), explosions, a car dragging a safe behind it and visuals of the people inhabiting Vice City. Given that it’s supposed to be a satirical take on the city of Miami, expect a fair amount of debauchery on the horizon. We even spotted a reference to Phil’s Ammu-Nation, which appears to be a reference to Phil’s Deport from GTA III, mashed together with Ammu-Nation, the gun store from GTA V.
All of which means, there’s a lot to be looking forward to: roll on next May.
