Article 6 December 2025
Kotaku Reviews Trailer 2: 'The Swagger Is Back'
Kotaku's hot take on the second trailer: Rockstar remembers how to make cool things cool.
Kotaku's day-one essay on GTA VI's Trailer 2 focused on tone, arguing that Rockstar had recovered some of the swagger that had gone missing from the studio's recent output. The piece also praised the trailer's use of needle-drops.
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