The reveal · December 4, 2023
GTA 6 Trailer 1, broken down
The trailer that announced the game: Vice City returns, the state of Leonida debuts, and Lucia — the series' first modern female lead — walks out of prison and into the story. Below: every location it confirmed, with the same frame references our map pins cite.
Official Rockstar Games video · plays here via YouTubeWhat Trailer 1 confirmed official
- The setting: Vice City and the wider state of Leonida — the series' Florida.
- Lucia: a playable female lead, introduced leaving a correctional facility.
- The era: present day — social feeds and stream culture are part of the world itself.
- The original window: 2025, later moved twice to the final November 19, 2026.
Shot-by-shot: the locations
Frame refs (T1/xx) match the sourcing used on our map pins; timestamps come from wiki documentation. Click through to fly to each pin.
| Frame | What's shown | Why it matters | Pin |
|---|---|---|---|
0:03 | Lucia in Leonida Penitentiary | The game opens its story with Lucia incarcerated — staff badges later confirmed the prison's name. | 📍 Leonida Penitentiary |
T1/10 · T1/17 | Vice Beach — the Ocean Drive strip | Neon hotels and muscle beach: the series' most iconic postcard, confirmed for the modern era. | 📍 Vice Beach |
T1/16 | Venetian Islands | The residential island chain in the bay — later reconfirmed in Trailer 2 (T2/80). | 📍 Venetian Islands |
T1/21 | The Vice City Sign | A Hollywood-style welcome sign — Vice City announcing itself. | 📍 Vice City Sign |
T1 | Port Vice City | Container cranes and shipping — the city's working waterfront. | 📍 Port Vice City |
T1 | Tequesta Condos | Residential towers identified by name in frame analysis. | 📍 Tequesta Condos |
T1 | Nine1Nine nightclub | First glimpse of Vice City's nightlife economy. | 📍 Nine1Nine |
T1 | Interstate 97 | The main coastal artery — Trailer 2 later staged its highway set piece here (T2/58). | 📍 Interstate 97 |
T1 | Street takeover / car-meet culture | Underground car meets confirmed as a world activity; exact district still unknown. | 📍 Stockyard Car Meet |
T1 | Airboats and gators in the wetlands | Grassrivers' Everglades character — wildlife and swamp traversal shown together. | 📍 Grassrivers |
T1 | Jason in the sandy backcountry | The Waning Sands area — Leonida's world extends far beyond the city. | 📍 Waning Sands |
What held up — and what changed
Everything above remains canon two and a half years later: no Trailer 1 location has been contradicted by later material, and several (Venetian Islands, I-97) were reconfirmed inTrailer 2. The one thing that didn't survive was the date — the 2025 window slipped twice before settling on Nov 19, 2026. The countdown page keeps the full dated record.
Jason and Lucia together, the Keys hideout, the bank vault.
⏳ Trailer 3 watchNot out yet — the release-window tracker.
🗺️ The interactive mapEvery trailer location pinned with its source.
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