Grand Theft Auto 6 is finally here or at least the first trailer is and man does this game look incredible
But let me tell you in just these 90 seconds
I believe that Rockstar has given us enough information to predict the entire 30 plus hour plot of this game
Don't believe me. Just give me the next couple of minutes
I'm gonna prove to you that I know the plot a full two years before this game actually releases
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Welcome to Game Theory where if this is our standard for goodness
then no wonder this country's screwed and who would have thought that after this insane year of gaming we'd go out on such a huge
Bang, it's like Rockstar saw the successes of Tears of the Kingdom, Baldur's Gate 3, Spider-Man 2 and just said hold my Mountain Dew
It's not even a game release
This thing's a trailer and the internet just up and forgot about all those actual games and is now obsessed with analyzing this
Rockstar trailer frame by frame to learn everything they can about GTA 6
And so, you know when people start analyzing things frame by frame we had to get in on that action
I mean it is kind of what we're known for over here. No. Hello Neighbor. No down bad boy
No, not your turn
So I sat down and looked at every picture, every line of dialogue, every possible detail to see what I could learn about this newly
Anticipated game and I was shocked that despite only having 33 words spoken in the entire trailer the game's whole plot was laid out
bare in front of us
Our lead character story has already been foretold. A story of drama, passion, and ultimately betrayal. Spoiler alert friends
There are no happy endings in this one. So have your getaway cars ready theorists. I've got a feeling
We're gonna have ourselves a five-star wanted level after I give away the secrets of
GTA 6. The first and most obvious piece of evidence coming out of this trailer is probably the backing track
So let's just start there. Music is one of the most important parts of any trailer. It's gonna help set the tone
It's gonna emphasize the setting, the location and if it doesn't fit you're really gonna notice it
But Rockstar also has themselves a habit of taking the use of music one step further
They tend to use songs with specific lyrics to hint at what their story is gonna be about
You can see I'm playing with this concept during the build-up to GTA 4
The core plot was pretty obvious. Thanks to the dialogue telling us that the lead character Nico was looking for someone
But the lyrics of the song actually took this a step further in a TV trailer
They used the song Vagabond by Greens Keepers, which opens with lyrics like this quote from far away
I came got away from seeing red. I want to shoot you down now for the things you did
I came a long way to see you
Now I wish you were dead and when the game eventually came out it was revealed that Nico had traveled from
Yugoslavia, a faraway place, to kill the man who betrayed his unit in the Yugoslav Wars, a man that made him see red with
Anger that he now wants dead. See what I'm saying here?
It is not subtle. Lyrics are giving us more context around the main plot of the story
Rockstar then continued doing this with the GTA 5 trailers with the second trailer using the song Skeletons by Stevie Wonder quote again
Skeletons in your closet itching to come outside
GTA 5 was all about Michael lying about who he was his friends thought he was dead
But instead he'd made a deal with the FBI and went into witness protection
And when the song goes on to say she said it wasn't polite to tell a white one
He said one white lie turns into a black one
It's all about how Michael omitted the truth telling small white lies to the people around him which continued to grow into bigger and bigger
Lies, black lies, leading to massive altercations and depending on the ending you chose the ending of one of the characters lives
So what song then is given us all the information for this new GTA 6 trailer?
Well, it's called Love Is A Long Road by Tom Petty. The lyrics are coming from a man's perspective singing about a woman
That he loves. In the trailer we're introduced to our two lead characters Lucia and Jason who appear to be romantically involved
Which leads me to believe that this song is about them and their relationship told from Jason's perspective
The first verse of the song uses lines like there was a girl I knew she said she cared about me
She tried to make my world the way she thought it should be and we see exactly this happening throughout the trailer
Lucia is the one running the show
She's the one doing most of the talking giving us a big speech about how they need to stick together
She's the one counting the money in the car and when they're robbing convenience stores. She's the one leading the charge
That's why all these lyrics feel so passive and more focused on what she thinks is best rather than what he wants
She tried to make my world what she thought it should be
so the fact that the lyrics are lining up with what we see in the trailer means that the rest of the lyrics in the
Song could probably be offering us more clues about what to expect in the game. For starters
We know that their relationship will eventually come to an end. The lyrics from the third verse say "it was hard to give up, some things
Are hard to let go, some things are never enough"
Notice that it's all being said in the past tense, this long road of love that this couple was on it's over now
But why well, let's again look back at the lyrics. Some things are hard to let go. Some things are never enough
It seems to be referring to their lives as criminals, either the money that they're getting, or the thrill and adrenaline here is never enough
There's always got to be just one more heist. The trailer places an emphasis on money in the final few shots
We get a nice big close-up of Lucia holding a big old wad of cash in the front seat as the police drive past
And we only see him pulling out guns in convenience stores places where the only thing you're gonna be taken is petty cash from the register
It's likely that one of them wanted to get out of this life and the other one kept them in. We also get the line
I'll give her one more chance
In fact, we actually get that line twice which solidifies the idea that this is all about Lucia
She's the one calling the shots and seems to be the one that's more focused on doing just one more heist
But Jason, well, it seems like Jason may have other plans. You see when looking back through the trailer
I noticed that Jason's face is never fully shown
It's always obscured in some way the two major shots of him are in the car and during the ending motel scene both times
We only get to see one half of his face
This is classic visual shorthand for someone hiding a part of themselves from us by hiding one half of their face
We never actually get to connect with who they really are get a sense of their full character
Think about like the Phantom of the Opera. He's hiding half of himself under a mask
We don't get to see the other half of who he truly is until the mask is removed
And finally then we realize yeah that guy he's not that great
He was actually hiding a lot of awful stuff, the burns on his face
But also symbolically the evil in his heart. Compare that to Lucia who regularly faces the camera practically straight on
She has nothing to hide
The only time that we see Jason forward facing in this entire thing is during the heist
Sections where he and Lucia are wearing bandanas to hide their identities
so again
Not allowing us as the audience to fully see who he is or get a sense of whether or not we can truly trust him
And trust is actually a key point here
It's literally the final word from each character in the trailer and when Lucia poses it as a question to Jason
Look at how he responds
He's nervous throughout the trailer in the car scene when the police drive by he looks panicked but Lucia she doesn't react that way
She's got a more neutral expression. She's enjoying this. This isn't her first rodeo then again, presumably it wouldn't be Jason's either
So why is he so nervous? What secret is he trying to hide? What game is he playing?
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But now I should probably explain what I mean about Jason playing games with Lucia
You see I wasn't the only person to notice that Jason was acting a little bit shady
There were a number of people who took to Reddit to write up their own very compelling theories as to what's going on with Jason
So I thought we should probably talk about those theories in a mini Morty
The overwhelming majority of theories that I saw circulating online were claiming that Jason's worried about getting caught by Lucia because he's an
Undercover cop, one that was assigned to get close to Lucia in order to take her down from the inside
But while on this mission he begins to fall in love with her if we go back to the Tom Petty lyrics
She's changed his world
and that's why love feels like a tough and long road because he's fighting with himself as to whether he follows his orders or
His heart and during the events of the game
He's eventually gonna snap as Lucia continues to push for more and more
Ultimately pushing him into something that he doesn't want to do crossing his moral boundaries
Now all of that might seem like a bit of a stretch
But there is more evidence here firstly user Willie points out that if you look real close on that second to last shot at Jason
You can see two small holes in his ears. Those are earring holes
It seems weird that he wouldn't be wearing them which leads to the idea that he might have gotten rid of those in order to
Go undercover his haircut also raised some suspicion because as user GodGarbage puts it "Jason really does have that cop haircut too
If you think about it." User Jojo_Reddit also points out that during the trailer
We see a body cam shot from a white police officer presumably Jason's body cam footage, and this is just my observations
But it's also worth pointing out that GTA 6 began development all the way back in
2014 a year where the media landscape was shaken by the passing of Paul Walker the co-star of the Fast and Furious franchise
Now Paul Walker's character Brian was an undercover cop that got romantically involved with a member of the gang that he was
Investigating seems like Rockstar might have taken some inspiration for Jason there
But for as compelling as that argument might seem there are plenty of holes here that I should probably point out. First of all the body
Cam footage from the white police officer, while
I definitely like that as evidence the idea that this is actually POV footage from Jason
Yeah, it's a little bit shaky if you look closely you can actually see the officers forearms are incredibly smooth
But when you take a look at Jason he is not incredibly smooth in fact quite the opposite
He is a hairy boy in the motel scene
We actually see him with his shirt off and his chest is covered in hair and sure enough in the next shot
We see Jason's arms in full view, and they are indeed incredibly hairy something about Jason doesn't exactly scream
Manscaping to me so those arms in the body cam footage probably not his as for Jason's chosen haircut the game takes place in the
State of Leonida the game's version of Florida specifically in the city of vice which is meant to be a parallel of Miami
Looking at the Miami Police Department's guidelines around appropriate haircuts the code states that quote the maximum extension of hair
That's combed outward shall be no more than two inches in addition the hair on the side of the head shall be
Gradually tapered, sounds pretty one-to-one with what our man Jason is rocking, except here again
There's a catch. If he's supposed to be undercover then police are actually encouraged to break their own rules, the guidance is very clear
That undercover cops are exempt from all these rules cuz guess what? They don't want them to look like a cop, makes sense. The guidelines
Also have something to say about piercings as well, quote again "earrings of the small post type that do not hang below the earlobe
May be worn by civilian female employees"
That's right, male officers from Miami aren't allowed to wear earrings.
Which means that the idea that he's missing them in these shots because he's gone undercover is actually getting the whole thing backwards,
much like the haircut he would more realistically have gained earrings as a part of his cover not lost them. All of this
Is to say that while I really like the idea of him being an undercover agent, sadly the evidence just doesn't really stack up.
I suppose he could still be helping the cops as an informant rather than being an actual police officer
Which would explain away things like the haircut and the earrings, but I have myself a different solution
While we've all been busy analyzing what's up with Jason in the trailer. I think it's all a red herring
I still believe the song is Jason's story
But I also think it's distracting us away from the real betrayal
That's gonna happen in this game, and it all comes down to this screenshot right here that symbol in the background
That's the state seal of Leonida, and it's very similar to the seal of Florida,
You know the place that Leonidas based on. The Florida seal depicts Sable Trees, the state tree, a Seminal woman spreading flowers, and a steamboat
Sailing before the Sun breaks over the horizon. The Seminal woman is there to represent the indigenous people that lived there when European
Settlers arrived, with the flowers being spread representing the harmony between them as well as the prosperous land. The Sable Trees represent prosperity and economic
Success. The steamboat is a callback to the transportation advancements that the state made back in the 1800s and the Sunrays are there because
The state shines proudly. The point of all of this is that these symbols aren't just there as pretty pictures
They have a meaning so then what's the state seal of Leonida trying to tell us? Well in the seal
We also get the sunshine rays, the steamboat, and the Palm Tree, connecting it back to the Florida seal that this is based on
But there are also a few key differences. First,
Let's talk about the woman unlike in the Florida seal where she's looking to the earth and spreading flowers and prosperity to the land
In GTA 6 we have a woman in a red dress looking off into the distance
Longing for something beyond the land that she's currently standing on this would match what we were saying about Lucia earlier in the video,
She's longing for something more, things are never enough for her.
It's always gonna be just one more heist, one more payday,
And then they're gonna be able to leave this place and start a new life.
But then take a look at the rest of the image,
There's a snake hanging from a tree behind her, a snake in a tree is always gonna be symbolic of one thing... the Garden of Eden.
Where Satan took the form of a snake and tricked Eve into eating from the Tree Of Knowledge, this then leads to the original betrayal
Where the woman Eve betrays Adam, leaving the couple to get yeeted out of the Garden of Eden by God. Snake in tree equals
deception, lies being whispered into the woman's ear promising her good things that will actually lead to
Tragedy and downfall. The woman in the seal wearing red is also interesting, red is symbolic of anger. It's symbolic of evil.
It's symbolic of temptation. Remember that scene in The Matrix where neo sees a woman in red
But then he looks back at her, and it's suddenly an agent pointing a gun at him? It's evil hiding in plain sight.
It's betrayal. There's also the classic Biblical example of a woman wearing red, The Whore Of Babylon.
She's a personification of the city's rulers that have fallen to corruption, red is corrupt.
So really every way to Sunday this seal is trying to tell us that the woman here is a betrayer. She's wearing red,
She's looking out into the distance to get away, and she's being tempted by a snake. That woman
I suspect is Lucia. Think about what we see of her throughout the trailer.
She starts off in a prison meeting with a counselor, but the next thing we know she's out on parole with an ankle bracelet
I would bet that they offered her a chance to get out
Maybe to even have a chance at a clean record and to start a new life so long as she helps take down the gang
That she works with. Lucia took a plea deal from the police,
She made a deal with the devil so to speak, and so she'll be the one to ultimately betray
Jason just like Eve did in Eden. Take one last look at that seal though, notice anything else
That's different from Florida's? Right there, that right
There's an alligator attacking someone which at first might just seem like yeah, obviously there's an alligator
We're talking about, Florida
But I wouldn't be so quick to jump to that conclusion. If the woman in red is meant to represent Lucia
Then the person in white standing next to her must represent the person that's closest to her,
Jason, him wearing white is a symbol of his innocence in this whole thing and the fact that he's being attacked by an alligator in
The seal is symbolic of him being sacrificed. He is literally being fed to the wolves or I suppose the alligators
It's her turning in a loved one to the police a betrayal for her own self-preservation
She's the one left standing while
He's literally getting eaten alive. A man who, remember based on how he looks throughout the trailer doesn't want to be there
He's the innocent in this. He's just following her lead, again think about the lyrics to the Tom Petty song.
She said she cared about me. She said she cared but did she really know it was all an act?
So then does Lucia get off scot-free?
Nope, remember again the symbolism that we're talking about here, Eve listens to the devil, Satan, the snake in the tree
That's feeding her lies. The snake gets her to betray Adam sure, but they both wind up suffering the consequences
They both lose and I suspect that that's gonna apply to Lucia here. She listens to the cops,
She betrays Jason thinking that it's gonna be the thing that gets her off, gets her to escape to a better life
But it's gonna backfire. She's gonna be taken down, too
That's why she's left on the shore longing for a new life, but never actually getting one.
She's stranded in the end.
She chooses to work with a snake but just like we see on the seal that snake is ready to bite
Am I right? Am I wrong? I guess we'll see in two years. But hey, that's just a theory a Game
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