Introducing Lucia and her accomplice
With the release of the long-awaited sequel’s first trailer, a new batch of GTA 6 characters has been introduced.
If you missed it, which is understandable given that it only debuted Monday evening, the first GTA 6 trailer went live a day early after it leaked online. The quick and dirty details are that it will be released in 2025, is simply titled Grand Theft Auto VI, and will return us to Vice City in the present day.
The trailer also revealed the series’ dual protagonists: Lucia, the long-running series’ first female hero, appears to be of Latin American descent. Her unnamed accomplice joins her as they cruise around Vice City on a speedboat, sports car, and motorcycle.
In the great GTA 6 leak of September 2022, the male protagonist was referred to as James, and elsewhere as Jason, but that name was not confirmed in the trailer. In any case, it’s pretty clear from the footage that the two are romantically linked and have a sort of Bonnie and Clyde-style relationship, not least because they’re tyre-squealing away in a car that’s almost certainly going to be stolen.
Other GTA 6 characters are revealed in the trailer, but they are not as prominent as Lucia and her partner. There’s a close-up of two previously unknown characters enthusiastically embracing each other at one point, and later in the trailer, there’s a scantily clad woman partying it up at a rooftop lounge. We also see a colorful cast of characters doing silly things for the ‘Gram, as well as a slew of gators, which is appropriate for Florida.