GTA 6 Fans Spot Tommy Vercetti Easter Egg Over a Year After Trailer 2's Release

Grand Theft Auto 6 fans person spotted a cheeky motion to Vice City protagonist Tommy Vercetti successful the game's 2nd trailer. In GTA 6's 2nd trailer, we get a mini-montage of a time successful the beingness of co-protagonist Jason Duvall. One cardinal infinitesimal sees him walking into a store, slapping the cashier, and taking currency retired of the register. However, Twitter idiosyncratic GameVerse spotted thing of note. At the 33-second people of the trailer, close arsenic the cashier turns his head, you tin spot a coating of a lizard connected the wall. The lizard happens to beryllium wearing a bluish floral garment – the aforesaid 1 arsenic Tommy Vercetti from GTA: Vice City.

It's somewhat singular that this item has mostly gone unnoticed for a year, fixed the information that the trailer has hundreds of millions of views and has been hyperanalyzed by fans. However, it's casual to miss since the lizard is obscured until the cashier is slapped, and it's lone disposable for fractional a second. It's besides conscionable blurry capable that if you're not truly looking for it, it whitethorn not basal out. It seems similar a harmless stake to ideate determination volition beryllium plentifulness of different references to Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, fixed that the 2 titles stock a setting.

However, you astir apt shouldn't expect Tommy to amusement up successful the flesh. Not lone did histrion Ray Liotta walk distant successful 2022, but Rockstar has ever tried to support the PS2-era titles abstracted from the different entries. In effect to a instrumentality question backmost successful 2011, Rockstar revealed its "logic" down however it separates the antithetic universes but, of course, it could ever alteration this if it truly wanted to.

"The 'universes' are the worlds interpreted astatine antithetic definitions, 2D, 3D and precocious definition, truthful we felt brands and radio/background characters would beryllium successful both, but three-dimensional characters would not," said Rockstar. This is the logic (as acold arsenic it could beryllium considered logical) down it – truthful no, we don’t judge immoderate GTA 3 characters could beryllium successful the GTA 4 universe."

GTA 6 volition seemingly diagnostic Phil Cassidy, but it doesn't look to beryllium the aforesaid mentation from the archetypal GTA: Vice City. The caller mentation has some of his arms, which wouldn't beryllium imaginable if it were the aforesaid continuity, fixed that helium blew his limb disconnected successful the 80s.

GTA 6 volition beryllium released connected November 19th, 2026, for PS5 and Xbox Series X|S. Pre-orders volition unfastened this Thursday, June 25th.

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