Everything Revealed in GTA 6 Netflix Extended Look: Full Breakdown

Rockstar Games premiered the 27-minute GTA 6 Extended Look on Netflix (followed by YouTube six hours later), sending the internet into overdrive, breaking down every frame of the clip and spotting every minor detail coming to GTA 6 gameplay.

Here are all the gameplay elements we spotted while watching the GTA 6 Netflix Extended Look, right from the dual protagonists system to the open-world of Vice City, and more.

Jason and Lucia: Dual Protagonists and Relationship Gameplay in GTA 6

Jason and Lucia are shown as GTA 6’s dual protagonists throughout the extended look on Netflix. The couple is shown moving through missions together, with the ability to switch between the pair where one is driving while the other shoots during a police chase.

Furthermore, we also see that you can switch between the two even when one of them is involved in an open-world activity like parachuting off of a high-rise building. The switching transition between Jason and Lucia is seamless.

Throughout the GTA 6 Extended Look, we can see that when you’re not directly controlling one of the pair, the AI-driven partner, be it Jason or Lucia, acts independently, firing on enemies or helping carry out a robbery in a store or a bank alongside you.

But that’s not all – we also get to see the couple’s relationship in those softer moments with a dedicated hand-holding animation (triggered by pulling the right trigger) as Jason and Lucia walk through the ‘Effluvia’ rooftop bar to meet veteran drug smuggler Brian Heder and his wife Lori, echoing the small relationship-building touches already established between the two in GTA 6.

According to Rockstar’s official hands-off gameplay previews, you can call or text your partner at any time in the open world to summon them for activities, robberies, or just to hang out. You can also ignore their everyday texts (like reminders to lock up the house), which can negatively impact your relationship.

Players will also be able to switch seats while driving when you switch between Jason and Lucia as you cruise around the open world. GTA 6 features a deep relationship system as well, where the more you’re around your partner and engage in activities, the stronger your bond will become.

However, when it comes to the GTA 6 Extended Look and what we saw, it’s safe to say Lucia and Jason’s loyalties are true to one another, as both have their own set of skills to bring to the table and protect each other. Trust? Trust.

Interestingly, Rockstar confirmed that pursuing a romantic bond between Jason and Lucia is optional outside of the main story. They will always have each other’s backs as partners in crime during missions.

However, their romance only blossoms if you spend time together in the open world, such as going to the gym as a pair (which gives a 2-for-1 stat boost), shopping in the fashion district, hiking, or pulling off robberies together. When you aren’t together, your partner follows their own daily routine around the safehouse or out in Leonida, and switching to them might even catch Jason in the shower.

GTA 6 Character Customization, Safehouses and Physical Stats

A cutscene shortly after a job gone wrong shows Lucia and Jason getting ready at their home with a change of clothes, followed by Jason grabbing a beer from the fridge and watching TV. This is similar to everyday safehouse behavior, similar to how GTA 5 handled downtime, now with more detailed interactions.

The GTA 6 Extended Look showcases how the safehouses will be similar to camps in RDR 2, where Jason and Lucia will be able to groom themselves and modify their appearance slightly. While you can trim or shave your hair and beard at a safehouse, getting a new or longer hairstyle in GTA 6 requires visiting a barber or salon.

Different salons across Leonida offer exclusive signature hairstyles. Only one specific shop, Sara’s Unisex Salon, is locked behind the $99.99 GTA 6 Ultimate Edition.

In addition to salons, different clothing stores across the map carry exclusive apparel that you can’t buy anywhere else. You can also buy groceries directly off convenience store shelves, similar to Red Dead Redemption 2. Moreover, all weapons you’ve purchased are automatically stored in the trunk of your personal vehicle alongside spare outfits.

Physical Stats is also a new GTA 6 gameplay feature, where Jason and Lucia will be able to change their body composition based on their activities. We can see Lucia lifting weights at a gym while Jason wrestles in a wrestling ring, which further increases the muscularity and strength of the characters.

On the other hand, if you get too hooked on drinking beers or chomping burgers at your favorite fast food joint in GTA 6, you will gain weight and get weaker from smoking too much. Apart from this, you’ll also be able to store spare clothes and weapons in your safehouses and own multiple personal vehicles. These cars can be stored in garages. You can also store weapons in vehicle trunks so you always have extra heat when needed.

GTA 6 Open World, Map, Exploration and Activities

The GTA 6 Extended Look boasted the open world of Vice City and its sprawling set of activities it offers to players. The GTA 6 map is divided into various districts, with buildings, NPCs, and visual details designed around the culture of each location.

In the extended look, we saw a more significantly detailed GTA 6 map than we saw in previous games in the franchise. We saw a wide glimpse of the vast Vice City map as Lucia leaped off of a skyscraper while wearing a parachute. However, that’s not all – fans also got to see a bird’s-eye view of the GTA 6 map as we switch between Lucia and Jason while they’re both in different locations.

Furthermore, the driving assistant mini map also shows a 3D recreation of the buildings and the street, and as per gameplay preview reports, we know that the pause screen uses a similar satellite imagery rather than the traditional street-and-block representation of the GTA 6 map.

When it comes to activities, we saw activities like scuba diving, parachute jumping, gym workouts, kayaking, car racing, dirt-bike racing, mini golf, and so on in the GTA 6 Extended Look. If you aren’t already impressed by the extended look to pre-order GTA 6, we don’t know what will convince you.

One detail confirmed in Rockstar’s gameplay previews is that you can interact with dogs by choosing to either pet or scold them. Doing small good deeds, like feeding animals or throwing away trash, positively shifts your Criminal Profile, as GTA 6 replaces a traditional ‘Honor’ meter with a behavioral profile system.

Rockstar has also confirmed that the state of Leonida is roughly twice the size of GTA 5’s map (and three times the playable area of Red Dead Redemption 2), divided into six major regions: Vice City, Leonida Keys, Grassrivers, Port Gellhorn, Ambrosia, and Mount Kalaga National Park.

The world features a redesigned dynamic weather and wind system capable of generating full tropical storms and hurricanes, alongside more than 170 animal species, from alligators and flamingos to manatees, sharks, and whales. Players can even visit a zoo or explore the wild to study animals and check them off a compendium list.

GTA 6 NPC Interactions and Random Events

GTA 6 is said to feature more advanced NPCs than any franchise title. In the GTA 6 Extended Look, a variety of NPCs can be seen with varying body shapes and heights, while the game’s animation system dynamically adjusts character animations to account for those physical differences. There was this scene in the extended look where a brute NPC literally speared a short-heighted cop through a damn wall.

Players can also directly interact with civilians or any mission-based NPCs, which is sort of an evolved version of RDR 2’s interaction feature. With the weapon holstered, you’re presented with options of either greeting or taunting an NPC, but if the situation gets too aggressive, you can defuse or provoke your interaction.

One particular NPC interaction with a “Hammer Lady” was quite hilarious when Jason and Lucia ask a woman who’s nearly smashing a car in a homely neighborhood. To top it all off, an encounter with a content creator hiding inside the trunk of a car that Lucia hijacks is absolutely bonkers. The NPC livestreams the ensuing police chase while a live chat scrolls right on the screen.

GTA 6 Phone, Apps, Taxi Travel and Immersive World Systems

Jason and Lucia’s phones in GTA 6 are now actual functional objects rather than a mere HUD gimmick. In the GTA 6 Netflix Extended Look, we saw both Jason and Lucia pulling out their phones, and the camera zooms in on their hand and the device itself, with a HUD of their text chat appearing in large bubbles right next to them.

The phone, as usual, comes with apps like Snapmatic and now includes a livestream feature where, if you’re a part of the stream, you can also view the actual feed alongside its live text chat next to it. Furthermore, players can also use the Ryde Me GTA 6 phone app to fast travel along Leonida, as we saw multiple Taxis run around the open world of GTA 6 in the extended look.

Seamless cutscene-to-gameplay transitions could also be seen where scenes shift from cinematic to playable sequences without a visible loading screen, which itself is quite the feat from GTA 5 till now. The radio system also makes a return, where you’ll be able to listen to a collection of GTA 6 songs while driving.

Lastly, there’s a new Focus system in GTA 6 which will help players interact with the world. It can highlight useful objects and points of interest, including things that can help Jason and Lucia keep the heat off them.

GTA 6 Police, Wanted Levels and Criminal Profile

Now comes the part that you’ve all been waiting for – after all, being in a GTA game means you’re always on the other side of the law and building your own criminal empire. In GTA 6, Lucia and Jason are fugitives on the run and trying to land the next big score in Vice City.

In GTA 6 Extended Look, we saw a similar score gone wrong, and we get to see an actual police chase sequence where we see Lucia driving, while Jason and Raul ride along.

We also see a character-switching mechanic between Jason and Lucia in the sequence where one moment you’re Jason, who’s shooting at the cops, and the next, you’re Lucia being the getaway driver with a four-star wanted level out of the six stars.

Evading the police in GTA 6 involves more than just outrunning them. After the chase with Raul, the crew ditches their getaway car, torches it to destroy evidence, and switches into a van. Notably, ditching a vehicle only clears the vehicle icon from the police’s dispatch checklist in the GTA 6 wanted system. If officers still have your physical description or clothing on file, the heat remains active.

Police can now identify Jason and Lucia based on their appearance, gender, and clothing. The icons below the wanted level indicate what info officers have about the suspect and what kind of weapon the assailant possesses. While changing clothes or hairstyle may remove the appearance identification, simply adding an accessory like a face mask or glasses doesn’t seem to be enough.

If police know Jason and Lucia committed a crime as a couple, splitting up or yelling at your partner to flee removes the ‘duo’ tracking icon and divides police attention, making it easier to escape. But how do you get a wanted level star, you may ask?

Well, triggering a crime when nobody is around does not give you a star automatically now. Instead, a crime must be witnessed by an NPC, spotted by a CCTV camera, or triggered by a store alarm or vehicle GPS tracker before police are alerted.

Furthermore, we see that there’s a Criminal Profile system in GTA 6 which functions similarly to RDR 2’s honor system, but is more complex. It tracks patterns of behavior without defining actions as simply good or evil. Repeated unnecessary violence or causing a ruckus may negatively affect your Criminal Profile and change how people react to Jason and Lucia, and may also influence story consequences.

But crimes committed during story missions do not affect your Criminal Profile, so you’re good there. So the next time you’re off mission and roaming around Vice City, think twice before carjacking someone’s vehicle or threatening them with a weapon.

GTA 6 Combat, Weapons and Non-Lethal Gameplay

The GTA 6 Extended Look kicks off with an active shootout situation taking place at Raymond’s hideout in Vice City. The entire five-minute sequence gives us the clearest look yet at GTA 6 combat, which is a massive upgrade from GTA 5 and RDR 2, although giving hints of a Max Payne 3-style weapon system.

Enemies are shown reacting and taking cover actively rather than standing in the open, which is an improved combat AI. But there’s much more to it when it comes to combat in GTA 6.

Rather than always eliminating opponents, players can incapacitate them by targeting their arms or legs, which are highlighted in red and yellow once you enter focus mode while aiming. Accurate players can also disarm enemies by shooting a weapon out of their hands. This provides you with a more flexible approach to combat in case you’re on a pacifist run in GTA 6, which is just sad if I’m being honest.

Anyway, coming back to Max Payne 3 flair, the game also features certain cinematic slo-mo moments for particularly stellar shots, whether it’s a headshot or a shotgun slug shot through a wall right on an enemy’s body.

There’s a wide range of GTA 6 weapons that we saw in the extended look, as Jason relies heavily on pistols and assault rifles, while Lucia uses a shotgun single-handedly like a boss and blasts enemies out of her way.

But here’s the thing about combat in GTA 6: it doesn’t always need to happen. You can now aim the weapon at an NPC and make them flee or agree to your demands in case you’re stealing a convenience store or robbing a bank. Your choices with combat in GTA 6 will create consequences that will ultimately affect your Criminal Profile, as mentioned earlier.

GTA 6 Money, Robberies, Heists and Criminal Activities

Like every GTA title, money plays a crucial role in GTA 6. Robberies and criminal activities will provide you with several ways to make money to progress along the main story. You can steal and sell cars, hold up businesses, rob stores, and rob banks to build your own bank.

In the GTA 6 Netflix Extended Look, we see Jason and Lucia engaged in multiple such activities where they steal cars, rob stores, heist banks, and even carjack vehicles right off the road.

Moreover, in the showcase, multiple job types play out, such as a drug retrieval mission that goes wrong and spills into a shootout, a diner robbery, and a private security job at the opening party for a Spanish-language TV network’s American headquarters, which turns into a dual-perspective firefight when armed men storm the building.

That particular job is shown simultaneously from the perspective of both Jason and Lucia despite the two being separated across different floors of the building.

A flashback also shows the duo getting caught by the police after an earlier heist goes wrong and sets up the game’s central conflict. But while you’re committing crimes out in Vice City, keep an eye out on the time because if you take longer to either steal cash from a store’s register or open a bank vault, the cops may arrive and wait for you to emerge.

In the GTA 6 Extended Look, towards the very first job shown for a GTA 6 character named Boobie Ike, it requires Jason and Lucia to escape through an alternate route as cops raid the drug dealer’s base.

Robberies are a massive part of the core gameplay loop between story missions. Rob Nelson confirmed that players can ‘rob pretty much anything,’ including a headphone store shown in the press demo.

During a holdup, you have to weigh speed against your payout: blowing open a safe with explosives is fast but damages the cash and valuables inside, whereas searching the store for the safe combination preserves the full loot at the risk of police surrounding the building and forcing you out a back exit.

GTA 6 Car Theft, Vehicle Boosting and New Vehicle Mechanics

Carjacking is one of the trademarks of a GTA game, and GTA 6 takes it to a whole other level. Car theft, in particular, has been reworked from the ground up. You know what this means, right? Yep, no more just entering a parked car and driving away.

You’ll now have different ways to steal a parked car, which require skill and more advanced tools. You can either use a slim jim to open a car lock for some older models or use a key cloner for newer cars to open them without triggering an alarm.

Breaking into older cars with a slim jim requires completing a quick-time event (QTE) to jimmy the lock, while modern luxury cars require electronic key cloners. Or if you don’t really care about siccing the cops on yourself, just break the damn window and enter.

Once stolen, keeping the car in pristine condition is vital, as any crash damage reduces its payout at a vehicle fence. Fences can also give you leads on high-value vehicles to boost, including access codes to break into police impound lots.

While in the GTA 6 Extended Look, we saw Jason using a Slim Jim to steal a classic American muscle. Rockstar’s hands-off demo confirmed that players use a phone app called WAINK to scan parked vehicles. It reveals the car’s alarm or GPS tracker, its resale value at a fence, and the cost to respray.

On the other hand, traditional carjacking is still present in the game. You will be able to steal occupied GTA 6 cars directly from their drivers. In the GTA 6 Extended Look, we also see Jason and Lucia switching vehicles and torching a stolen car. This ties the vehicle mechanics directly into evading police.

When it comes to vehicle boosting, you’ll be able to sell stolen cars to fences in GTA 6. However, beware of vehicles with trackers since they can initiate some pretty intense police chases.

We also see Jason and Lucia engaged in car races (with NOS feature), dirt bike races, and even a motorboat and kayak race in GTA 6. These suggest the game has a wide variety of vehicles to choose from.

GTA 6 Story, Missions, Choices and Open World Integration

Finally, when it comes to the GTA 6 story, we get our confirmation with the Extended Look that we’ll have not one, but two playable protagonists, Jason and Lucia, in the game. The showcase ties its missions directly to character moments rather than treating them as isolated objectives, whether it’s a drug pickup, diner robbery, or a bodyguard job turned bloody.

All of the above-mentioned moments connect back to Jason, Lucia, and the newly introduced character Raul. This is also the first time we see quite a friendly relationship between Brian and Jason. They share sort of a father-son bond together. At the same time, the dual-perspective sequence during the kidnapping attempt points to a story structured around consequences carrying forward from one event to the next.

But when it comes to choices, Rockstar hints that your decisions will have immediate and significant consequences. Moreover, smaller choices can accumulate over time and result in larger changes.

This sort of playthrough is similar to Cyberpunk 2077. Rockstar North co-studio head Rob Nelson confirmed that both big decisions in the moment and small accumulated choices will shape how the story and ending play out. That includes how much you nurture Jason and Lucia’s romance and your Criminal Profile.

Furthermore, the Extended Look also showcased how open-world activities in GTA 6 perfectly tie in closely to the identities and stories of Jason and Lucia. The showcase also shows how the franchise continues to maintain its trademark satire and comedy throughout its world.

While the GTA 6 Extended Look ran on the base PS5, and that too at 30 FPS, fans are arguing whether the game will get a 60 FPS mode on consoles or not. Regardless, the GTA 6 Extended Look on Netflix revealed a plethora of details about the world Rockstar has built for fans to enter on November 19, 2026, when the game releases on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S.