Every wait for an important moment in Grand Theft Auto comes with the same promise: the Extended Look that will arrive on Netflix on August 27 is no exception. It is also good to calm your expectations and manage your wishes, but probably not for the reasons you would expect. Rockstar Games has never worked as other industry studies, and this is a positive aspect. It is a study that jealously guards its most important cards until the day of launch, gradually releasing the rest according to a carefully studied plan. Also Strauss Zelnick, managing director of Take-Two Interactive, quieted you discreetly, stating that you should not expect "the full meal", defining the whole thing "a taste", with "antipasti, main course and dessert" to follow. Basically, what we want to say is that GTA 6 will probably not give you what you are waiting for. The predictions on which these considerations are based are dictated by how Rockstar has released his last two games. Let's start with the map: Rockstar never fully revealed the shape of a GTA world before the game was launched. Designed regions and atmospheres, it allows you to make a stop on the beach here and a crossing in the marshes there, but the dimensions and the royal disposition remain hidden until the moment you are on its top – which works because the huge size of Los Santos, Liberty City and Vice City (among others) are one of the strengths of the franchise. The surprise effect of discovering how vast the province of Leonida is a crucial element and cannot work if everything had been shown immediately. In addition, when a complete map is revealed, the entire project months before launch are also delivered to miner data and competing studies. Wait to see other corners of the world in the next Extended Look, but don’t expect the whole thing to be shown. The second crucial point is Grand Theft Auto Online. GTA Online arrived about two weeks after Grand Theft Auto V, and Red Dead Online came out as beta a month after Red Dead Redemption 2. Jason Schreier also confirmed that GTA Online is not a priority at the moment; the main focus is on the single-player campaign. Then there's the PC issue. GTA 6 is an output console game, and there are no release dates on PC. Rockstar has the habit of delaying the PC version for later optimizations and a second wave of sales. Announcing a release on PC would now compromise these plans. Do not expect specific details about unlocks, exact launch times, preload windows, file size, all those things to plan for launch day. Rockstar would not waste his content by hiding them in a trailer. A film exhibition so far from the launch is not the ideal place for preloading. Finally, do not expect much information about the real plot. Rockstar trailers sell an atmosphere and some faces, not the plot. You will most certainly have Jason and Lucia and the energy "Bonnie-e-Clyde" between them, but you will not find out where their history will go. Non mi stupisce affatto questa scelta. Guardate come hanno gestito il lancio di Red Dead Redemption 2 – un approccio simile, seppur su scala diversa. Il fatto che Netflix sia la piattaforma scelta, invece del canale YouTube di Rockstar o di testate giornalistiche specializzate, è un segnale chiaro: stanno minimizzando l'attenzione e l’influenza dei media tradizionali. Mi convince poco che questo Extended Look rivelerà qualcosa di sostanziale sul gameplay. La strategia di Rockstar è sempre stata quella di creare una sensazione di scoperta, di "trovare" il mondo di GTA 6 mentre lo si esplora. Un assaggio del genere è perfetto per alimentare la curiosità e mantenere l’hype alto fino al lancio vero e proprio. E, a dire il vero, mi aspetto che le discussioni su come Dre'Quan Priest e Boobie Ike si inseriscano in questo ambiente siano solo un sottofondo: la priorità è sempre stata - ed è ancora - la campagna single-player.
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