Over a year since the first trailer debuted, Rockstar Games has finally dropped the second trailer for shows off its two main characters, Lucia Caminos and Jason Duval, as they drive, party, and commit felonies across Vice City. While practically every part of this trailer is exciting purely due to the hype surrounding GTA 6, one specific aspect stood out as particularly exciting: the NPCs.
Throughout the first two trailers for GTA 6, NPCs of every shape, size, and subculture can be spotted living in Vice City. While GTA 5 also had a large number of NPCs ambling around Los Santos, GTA 6 seems to have upped the ante with the variety and immersion NPCs bring to Vice City. The trailer focuses more on cinematic presentation than gameplay, but so far, every crumb of GTA 6 Rockstar has released has suggested a city with a vibrant life of its own.
GTA 6’s Second Trailer Shows Off How Alive Vice City Is
A City With A Life Of Its Own
The first trailer for Grand Theft Auto 6, released back in December 2023, revealed all the different subcultures that players might see in and around Vice City. Mud-wrestling rednecks, inner-city gangsters, rich street racers, clout-hungry influencers, and more can all be spotted throughout, even though some appear in only brief clips. The second trailer for GTA 6 has revealed even more urban life, as Jason drives around Vice City listening to the radio and witnesses an average day in and around locations downtown.
During his relaxing afternoon before picking up his partner Lucia (and after either robbing a store or forcefully collecting rent), Jason works out on the beach, visits a convenience store for a six-pack, and drives past a confrontation with the police. Each of these snippets features people of every imaginable background, including beggars on the sidewalk, athleisure-clad women, average Joes buying drinks, and Florida retirees.
Every Character Confirmed For GTA 6
Grand Theft Auto 6 brings a new cast of characters to the table, and Rockstar has already provided details on a lot of the core figures.
The sheer variety and number of people seen in the background of Jason’s day lends to the feeling that Vice City is a real place, not just an empty cityscape for players to speed through. There’s real depth on every street because there seem to be people everywhere, doing their own thing and living life.
Unique Subcultures Mean NPCs With More Personality
GTA 6 Could Provide A Whole New NPC Experience
Grand Theft Auto 5 has a lot of NPCs with a fair amount of variety. Depending on where you are on the map, different types of people in very specific subcultures can appear. Rich socialites show up downtown near the high-end stores, tourists and beach-goers appear near the pier, and rednecks hang out near the mountains. While these different NPCs are visually different, they all function in the same way.
Once Michael, Franklin, or Trevor starts waving a gun around, the NPCs scream and run, and that tends to be the bulk of the interaction with most of them. While this might be the same in GTA 6, the appearance of so many different subcultures might mean NPCs react differently. There's a chance that the game could offer more fight than flight from NPCs, depending on who's around.
I Wasn't Excited For GTA 6 At All, But One Detail In The Second Trailer Changed My Mind
Grand Theft Auto 6’s second trailer is finally out, and one detail in it has managed to completely change my mind about the whole game.
Based on the appearance of the NPCs in the second GTA 6 trailer, it seems that there will be way more overlapping and mixing of subcultures alongside the varied NPC appearances in Vice City. The now iconic image of the beach at Vice City, with all the different shapes and sizes of people, was the first indication that GTA 6 would have far more variety in NPCs. The second trailer has taken that even further and has shown more subcultures in detail.
Influencers, or wannabe influencers, will be among the beach-goers, gangsters, and street racers. Thanks to the setting, there may be far more variants of rednecks, like “Salt Life” fishers and gun-toting patriots at the weapons stores. These unique subcultures will hopefully mesh throughout the GTA 6 map, making the city less of a series of segregated neighborhoods in a video game and more of a lived-in place worth exploring.
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Grand Theft Auto 6
- Released
- May 26, 2026
- Developer(s)
- Rockstar Games
- Publisher(s)
- Rockstar Games
- Engine
- Rockstar Advanced Game Engine (RAGE)
- Multiplayer
- Online Multiplayer
- Prequel(s)
- Grand Theft Auto 5
- Franchise
- Grand Theft Auto
