Have you watched the second Grand Theft Auto V trailer yet? If you haven’t, you should probably do so here. In any case, we’ve decided to dissect the trailer piece by piece to uncover any juicy bits of details hidden within its lofty confines.
First of all, the trailer’s music Skeletons by Stevie Wonder. The song’s about the skeletons you hide in your closet—presumably the kind Michael, one of the game’s protagonists hides from the people in his life. He’s the old guy, a retired criminal whose just can’t seem to get away from a life of crime. Formerly a bank robber, he went into witness protection under the FBI after he snitched on his former buddies.
The trailer begins with scenes of Michael’s dysfunctional family. His wife argues with his teenage daughter and Michael finds time to relax by the pool with a drink.
The trailer then pans over to a view of the city with functional trains.
After giving us a small view of the city, we get a glimpse at one of San Andreas’ seedier parts as a balding guy in his 40s, Trevor, starts some trouble at a dive bar. A dirt trike can be seen driving off, as Trevor tosses a molotov cocktail and sets a rundown old house on fire, walking towards the camera as the whole place erupts into flames. He doesn’t look back, because cool guys don’t look at explosions.
“I’ll swing by and sign the contracts. Just ignore the bodies,” he says nonchalantly towards an unseen character.
We then get another view of the city, which contains a bus and a diesel freight train running through an intersection.
The view shifts back to Michael, who’s sitting on a park bench when a couple of dudes walk up to him—one of whom’s Franklin, the game’s third protagonist. He points them over to a house and then a chase ensues—presumably driven by Franklin, who also finds himself arguing with his girlfriend who says she doesn’t care how many cars he owns, cause he ain’t changing. He also argues with a friend about how he’s not interested in living the thug life by throwing up gang signs and shit.
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The scene then shifts back over again to Michael, who’s now in conversation with a school counselor who talks about his teenage son, who’s always in trouble. The scene shows Michael’s teenage son hanging onto a boat’s boom as it careens through traffic while being hauled by a pickup during a high speed chase. He lands in Michael’s car.
Later, when the two speak, he tells Michael, “let’s bounce” and Michael remarks upon the stupidity of the phrase.
The scene switches over to Trevor, who’s seen curbstomping some dude in as people watch. He takes off in a small airplane, flies over the wilderness, and then a safe explodes. Men in skimasks can be seen robbing the place.
The scene then switches over to a drifting car, with a rottweiler in pursuit of someone. The dog leaps over a car and continues its chase.
There’s a split-second in which we see one of the main characters rappelling down a building—it’s something we’ve seen before in recently released screenshots.
Later, a dude smashes a glass case in a jewelry store.
A bike is seen coasting down a road.
And then a jeep falls out of a cargo airplane in a scene not unlike Uncharted 3’s airplane event over the desert. A dude dives out of the jeep as it plummets.
Then we see some guys dirt biking.
Trevor’s aboard a train. On top of it, actually, and it appears to be headed in a head-on collision with another train. He jumps off at the last second as the two trains collide over a bridge.
The scene shifts back to Michael, who’s now with Trevor and Franklin and introducing the two to each other. He says, “That’s Trevor, my best friend. And that’s Franklin, the son I always wanted.” Franklin says, “Yeah, whatever,” and Trevor says to Michael, “Jesus, your therapist has a lot to answer for.”
Then we see a jet fighter flying over San Andreas. It takes out a helicopter with a missile.
The trailer ends with all three characters mimicking the three wise monkeys: see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil.
Fin.
Things to note: the facial animations are on par with Max Payne 3‘s; the Rottweiler is realistically animated; interiors are incredibly detailed—you can see an iMac in one of the offices; explosions are incredibly detailed, with a ton of debris; cars and other vehicles have detailed damage modeling and consist of multiple parts (e.g. the boat); there may be fire physics, given how the fire from Trevor’s molotov cocktail spreads throughout the building.
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