GTA VI: After a decade of waiting, we're getting a new GTA

After a low-quality copy of the trailer circulated online, developer Rockstar released the video 15 hours before the official release.

The 90-second teaser confirmed that the game will be set in the Miami-inspired Vice City. For the first time since the 1990s, the main protagonist Lucia arrives.

But the wait is not over yet, as the game is not expected to be released until 2025.

The latest game in the series will be a sequel to the 2013 blockbuster GTA V, which became the second best-selling video game of all time behind Minecraft.

There have been seemingly endless rumors and leaks about GTA VI over the past decade.

The mere confirmation that a trailer was coming was enough to spark a flurry of headlines in November as desperate fans searched for any information about the new game.

The trailer features people racing cars, partying on boats, and a man pulling an alligator out of a swimming pool, all set to the American sounds of Tom Petty's Love is a Long Road.

"Gamer" Jess, known online as "Rage Darling," is usually known for her multiplayer RPGs, but said she's been "keeping an eye" on the upcoming game.

"If you're not at all interested in GTA, you're pretty much the black sheep at this point. That's such a big deal,” she told BBC Newsbeat.

She added that the series had "always been a man's game", but the new female perspective excited her.

Although it's been a long time since the protagonist - the last one was on the original PlayStation console - he thinks the impact on the wider industry will be huge.

"I think this will show a lot of other game developers and AAA developers that having a woman at the center of the action is not a problem,” she said.

More questions than answers

While the trailer gives fans plenty to chew on, there are still some questions that need to be answered.

The main question among them is which consoles the game will be released on, as this information was not revealed in the video.

Some time ago, Take-Two Interactive, the publisher of the game, announced that GTA VI will be released on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series S/X in 2025.

There's no new information yet on a release date or a possible PC version - if they follow the pattern of previous games in the series, a PC release will follow.

GTA IV and V were released on PC a few months after their console release.

Fans are also wondering who voiced the main character, Lucia, but the identity of the voice actor remains a mystery.

It took a long time for the new game to arrive, and James Binns, president of gaming media company Network N, said that this could be explained by the sheer success of GTA V, which sold 190 million copies worldwide.

"It is one of the biggest games in the world and now GTA is keeping it alive Online, an online game in which you rob banks and build gangs," he said. It now tops the gaming charts for Xbox, PlayStation and PC most weeks.

"They spent over a billion dollars on GTA 6, so it's going to be epic in scale. It will be the most expensive game ever made.”

Earlier, the gaming giant's chairman Sam Houser said that the December release of the trailer would coincide with the 25th anniversary.