Loading Leonida: what we learned from the ‘Grand Theft Auto 6’ Extended Look on Netflix

It’s a massive night for Grand Theft Auto 6 fans as the game’s Extended Look has premiered on Netflix – six hours ahead of its wider release at 2am BST tomorrow morning (August 28).

GTA6 , which is said to be more grounded and realistic than previous entries in the series, doesn’t drop until November 19, so this is a pivotal moment in the action-adventure game’s hugely hyped rollout.

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Overall, the Extended Look is a little heavier on gameplay razzle-dazzle than concrete narrative revelations, but there’s still a few surprises to chew over.

It’s a couple’s story if you want it to be As we already knew, GTA6 has dual protagonists: Jason Duval, a one-time military drug runner, and Lucia Caminos, a fighter who’s fresh out the slammer.

You can either choose to play as a couple or switch between the two protagonists as and when you like, a nifty feature that the Extended Look highlights.

If you go down the couple route, there’s clearly a lot of rapport to explore.

The Extended Look includes a cute look at Jason and Lucia’s domestic life in a Vice City apartment with a lot of hot pink furnishings.

She even asks him to pick out the dress she should wear before they head out for cocktails at a rooftop bar called… wait for it… Effluvia.

In the 13 years since Grand Theft Auto 5, the series clearly hasn’t lost its penchant for snort-inducing base humour.

Plus, if you look closely at the TV in Jason and Lucia’s pad, you’ll see an advert for a fast food meal containing an artery-clogging 30,000 calories.

Never change, GTA .

The action is as splashy as ever The Extended Look offers a deft balance between exhilarating GTA trademarks – a shoot-em-up in a drug den, a white-knuckle police car chase – and footage that feels more particular to the new protagonists.

This is our first proper rendezvous with Jason and Lucia, but already they seem like a duo who’d do a great job of robbing a jewellery store, which we see them doing briefly in a montage sequence.