I Don’t Need More Chores (Or, Why I’m Feeling like GTA6 Isn’t For Me)

Thom Waite / Dazed: On the sweltering Leonida Keys, sweat slicks the skin of two lovers on the run as they toast new beginnings, watching the sun set over the water. A breeze blows through their hair, and you can almost feel the condensation dripping from the cold beer bottles in their hands; in the background, locals gather on the weatherbeaten dock, indifferent to the story unfolding between the outlaws. Elsewhere, a few miles north, tanned bodies of all shapes and sizes swarm the sand on Vice Beach. Further north still, locals are caked in mud, kicked up from the back of a dirt bike or spattered on a stars-and-stripes bikini. And as night falls back in Vice City, sweaty crowds surge to deafening hip-hop beats, spilling out from clubs on to the neon-lit streets. The first real preview of Grand Theft Auto 6 hit today, just ahead of the video overview on Netflix tomorrow, and an absolutely ridiculous number of leaks over the last week. And…I have to say…I’m starting to get my doubts…