The trailer for GTA 6 draws comparisons to Vice City locations
The GTA 6 trailer debuted earlier than expected yesterday, December 4, and featured a Vice City setting. This means GTA 6 is immediately drawing comparisons to GTA Vice City, specifically how certain locations from the older game are recreated in the new Rockstar game over 20 years later.
One fan, for example, has drawn parallels between GTA Vice City and Washington Beach from GTA 6. The older game isn’t based on any real-world locations, whereas GTA 6 obviously is, but both are designed to look like Ocean Beach.
“And the residents of Vice City have finally learned how to swim!” According to one Reddit comment. Finally, the people of fictitious Miami will be able to go swimming in the sea. It only took them about 20 years to learn to swim.
Some fans believe they have spotted the Ocean View Hotel, Tommy Vercetti’s safe house in Vice City, in the GTA 6 trailer. The neon pink writing in the new trailer is a compelling comparison, but there’s probably no shortage of neon pink writing in GTA 6’s recreation of Vice City/Miami.
The image from Vice City in the Reddit post above shows an old car parked in front of the hotel. People in the comments believe they can see the same old car in the first screenshot from GTA 6’s trailer, and if you look closely, you can see a pretty distinctive car roof near the neon pink writing.
GTA 6 is currently not confirmed for PC; it will only be available on next-generation console platforms. The trailer also revealed GTA 6’s new female protagonist, which isn’t a first for the series, as the original GTA had playable female characters among its four protagonists.