GTA 5 swung the opposite way, one of the great wide lens views of a city, and with it most of America, or even more broadly the West, in the wake of financial collapse.

In Red Dead Redemption, it could afford to focus on just John Marsten, a man picked out with a long lens - a 'hero shot' of a character, where they're singled out for focus against a background that's less populated and blurred. Over the years since, Rockstar's been wrestling with the balance, Niko Bellic a poignant character but also a muted one, his colour lost against the noise of Liberty City, and the bigness of ideas like opportunity and the American dream. GTAs are always tales of great cities, built on the foundations of sense-of-place above all, but following CJ around his life - a weirdly mundane life for GTA when you think about it, made up of trips to the gym, eating burgers, cycling home, before you get to shooting stuff in stolen fighter jets - you are for the first time zoomed in, focused first on him, then the world. In San Andreas, with CJ, it took its first steps from viewing cinema as cool shots and camera movements and references to things actual films have done before, and discovered character. But in its years of growth since - and it has grown, much as many would justifiably argue GTA is known for its puerility - Rockstar also discovered something else. This studio has been infatuated, obsessed, with cinema since the beginning of its modern era, which you might pin somewhere around the end of GTA 3, and the arrival of Ray Liotta-voiced, hawaiian shirt-clad Tommy Vercetti in GTA: Vice City. Watch this thing through and watch it closely, and the whole of Rockstar's lineage starts to reveal itself.

Manage cookie settings The Grand Theft Auto 6 reveal trailer Watch on YouTube To see this content please enable targeting cookies. But what struck me about it is less what it says about what might be in the next Grand Theft Auto, than what it says about Rockstar - and what Rockstar thinks of Grand Theft Auto itself. We've run through what it suggests will feature in GTA 6 already, and the magic thread it points to at the heart of its story, and gathered everything we could possibly know about GTA 6 and put it in one place as a guide. Its arrival - especially its nice and early one, like a dinner guest before you've done the Hoovering - means we've had to scatter in our own way too. A herd of already majestic Brachiosaurus and Gallimimus quietly minding their business in a field - and suddenly: T-Rex. As other studios scrambled to meme Rockstar's announcement-of-an-announcement post the other day, dipping their own reveals and posts in neon pink and orange, Christian Donlan described it as like being in Jurassic Park.

Nobody needs a breathless reaction to one trailer less. It's a single trailer, 90 seconds long - or really, about 77 seconds of actual footage - and of all the world's video game developers now, none are granted more benefit of the doubt, more pre-loaded, automatically qualified hype, than Rockstar.

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