With the 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:second trailer for 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Grand Theft Auto 6, Rockstar has continued a proud tradition: releasing more footage that tells you slightly more about the game's story,🎃 while giving you next to nothing about how it’ll play.

The official Rockstar Games YouTube channel dates back to February 17, 2006, which means that all of its trailers since Bully are preserved in one place. If you take a look through that archive of advertising, you g🌺et a good sense of how Rockstar likes to do things. It has a particular way it shows off its games, and it may or may not be surprising to see that despite 19 years having passed since the channel was started, GTA 6's second trailer follows the same trend as most of its other second trailers.

Grand Theft Auto 6: Trailer 2

After the quick-cutting montage style of the , which was tied together with Tom Petty's Love is a Long Road, the takes a more slice-of-life approach. You meet Jason while he's working on a roof (fixing 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:leaks, wink wink nudge nudge), then follow him as he drives around the city, buys a six-pack, robs a convenience store, and picks 🎃Lucia up from prison.

From there, the second half of the trailer is all set to The Pointer Sisters' 'Hot Together,' and gives us glimpses of Lucia and Jason's life (and crimes) together. After the vibes-heavy intro trailer, this second outing gives us a better look at our two leads, hints at the story they'll play a role in, introduces a few side characters (with the biggest emphasis given to Brian, who sounds an awful lot like Barry's Stephen Root), and shows off the revamped, next-gen world oဣf Vice City.

After the first trailer, which felt like an ad for virtual Vice City tourism, trailer two h🉐ones in and shows you a few of the people you'll get to kno🦩w when you visit.

Red Dead Redemption 2: Trailer 2

This is the Rockstar model, and 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Red Dead Redemption 2 followed the same arc. The is a mood piece. It a🌳lmost entirely consists of shots of the game's beautifu✅l natural environment. Because the Red Dead games are attempting to simulate nature, not city life, the mood the trailer sets is much more low-key than GTA's first trailer, with lots of shots of the landscape, the stars, the wildlife, and one of a town.

At the end, we finally get some action as the Van der Linde Gang rides toward the camera, which then pivots to follow them 𝔍as they gallop toward distant mountains. We don't see much of Arthur here — just his back, silhouetted by fire — but we hear him⭕, giving a speech about how the time to run away from this life is drawing near.

The is remarkably similar to the second GTA 6 trailer — down to the fact that both Jason and Arthur are portrayed as debt collectors, roughing people up for late payments. It introduces us to the major players — namely Arthur, Dutch, Charles, Sadie — weaving snippets of the story int𝓰o🔯 open-world action. The two trailers are doing the same one-two punch. Punch One: This is the world. Punch Two: These are the people who live in that world.

Grand Theft Auto 5: Trailer 2

GTA 5, likewise, started moody, then moved in a more narrative-focused direction. Th𝄹e first trailer gave us mood🐻-setting shots of Los Santos and the surrounding area with narration from Michael. We saw the beach, the palm trees against the city skyline, mountains, fast cars, liquor stores, windmills twirling, and oil derricks pumping away.

Like the RDR2 trailer, it had some narration from its main character, Michael, and some shots of him in action. But mostly, it gave you a glimpse of the place Rockstar would ﷺask you to hang out for a few doz♔en hours.

Or many more, if you got into GTA Online.

The broadened out to focus on Michael, Trevor, and Franklin, their dynamics, and hints at the action-packed 🌸crime story they would find themselves embroiled in.

Red Dead Redemption And GTA 4: Trailer 2

I'm aware I’m repeating myself at this point, but I want to hammer home the extent to which Rockstar has a playbook for its second trailers. 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Red Dead Redemption's introduces us to the Wild West, with shots of John Marston in action. Its introduces us to John Marston as a character, his ques👍t, and the supporting characters. GTA 4's shows off its new and improved version of Liberty City, with shots of Niko Bellic. Its gives us a sense of his life in the city and the other characters he will interact with throughout the game.

The Outliers: Max Payne 3, Bully, And L.A. Noire

There are outliers, to be sure. The first two trailers for Max Payne 3 both focus on the specific story Rockstar plans to tell. The first focuses more on Max, the second focuses more on the other characters, but neither does the tone-setting, environment-ogling thing that the first trailers for most Rockstar games do. Sao Paulo is mentioned repeatedly, but it isn't an open-world game, so long static shꦗots of its environments wouldn't sell the game as players would experience it.

L.A. Noire and Bully, both trailers a𓆉re fairly similar, offering a mixture of information about the setting, characters, and story. Bully goes heavier on the setting, while L.A. Noire focuses more on the supporting cast (a good way to show off the game's signaᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚture motion capture facial tech), but both are definite departures from the Rockstar trailer blueprint.

So, What Does This Tell Us?

The extent to which the biggest developer in the world is strictly iterative is fascinating. Rockstar Games never radically changes. If you played GTA 3, then jumped ahead to GTA 5, you wouldn't think, ‘Wow, these games are nothing alike!’ You would probably think, ‘Wow, this new game is a much more advanced version of that old game.’ The open world is bigger and better, the shooting mechanics are more advanced, and the graphics are night and day, but the core loo🎃p? Pretty similar. Is that bad? Is it harmful for the industry that the most triple-A developer to ever triple-A is making better versions of the same kind of game, over and over?

That's beyond the scope of this piece. But I find it interesting that, when you look back at two decades of Rockstar trailers, you see the same iterat🦂ive process at work. The second trailer for Grand Theft Auto 6 is seeking to accomplish the same thing as the one Rockstar cut for Grand Theft Auto 4. The stuff they're showing off now i⭕s undeniably more impressive than it was in the 2000s. The way they're showing it off hasn't changed.