The level of marketing and official communication surrounding Grand Theft Auto 6 is finally being kicked up a notch, with Rockstar recently announcing a full reveal trailer for the title will release in early December. News of this announcement has spread like wildfire, further reinforcing just how anticipated the upcoming project is, with fans enjoying the prospect of finally getting answers to some longstanding burning questions.

As well as confirming things like the main city and protagonists of Grand Theft Auto 6, this upcoming trailer will hopefully shed some light on the rumored secondary locations that the game may explore. This ties in well with the rumored links between Red Dead Redemption 2's Guarma and Grand Theft Auto 6, and the game's reveal trailer will settle a huge debate around the purpose of the location in RDR2.

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RDR2's Guarma May Have Been a Test For Grand Theft Auto 6

RDR2's Guarma May Be More Important Than Meets the Eye

In the run-up to Grand Theft Auto 6, many fans have been looking back at 2018's Red Dead Redemption 2 to remind themselves of what a modern Rockstar experience can look like. While many still expect GTA 6 to be even more detailed and thorough than RDR2, there are certain aspects of the gunslinging title that may have been designed purposefully as a test for what experiences GTA 6 will eventually foster.

This was the dominant rumor surrounding Red Dead Redemption 2's infamous Guarma segment, which bizarrely took the game's cast of characters to a remote Caribbean island for a single chapter. While Guarma offered an interesting break from the familiar world of New Austin, many Red Dead fans have long thought that the Guarma chapter has a much deeper meaning away from what meets the eye.

The narrative events of the Guarma chapter are quite irrelevant to the important plot points of Red Dead Redemption 2, and the extremely brief time that players spend on the island seems disproportionate to the amount of unique assets that were used to create Guarma. This has led to popular rumors that Guarma acted as a kind of asset test for Grand Theft Auto 6, with it being plausible that GTA 6's early development overlapped with the tail-end of Red Dead Redemption 2's.

Grand Theft Auto 6 Could Feature Its Own Guarma

Reports indicate that GTA 6's story could see the player travel to a number of Caribbean islands away from its rumored core setting of Vice City. These islands would act as self-contained open worlds, befit with their own range of characters and stories, and are set to be a huge boost to the overall content of GTA 6 if the rumors hold any weight. If this is true, then Caribbean locations could play a role in the upcoming trailer for GTA 6.

This kind of Caribbean tropical setting is quite unusual compared to what environments Rockstar usually explores, meaning the company may have wanted to test itself with similar locations in Red Dead Redemption 2. Interestingly, this matches up well with the confusion surrounding why Guarma exists at all in RDR2, with many fans believing the answers behind the location's purpose lie with another project.

With Vice City being a fictional take on the city of Miami, which itself is close to the Caribbean, it is clear to see why fans are so receptive to the concept of tropical islands in Grand Theft Auto 6. GTA 6 is already a game of immense expectations, and having these alternate locations for players to visit would be a good way to give a sense of scale that exceeds that of past entries to the franchise. Fans have long been searching for a deeper meaning behind Guarma in Red Dead Redemption 2, and the upcoming trailer for GTA 6 may just confirm if there was a larger purpose to the infamous island.

Grand Theft Auto 6

Grand Theft Auto 6 is an open world crime game that takes fans back to the neon-soaked streets of Vice City.

Franchise

Grand Theft Auto

Developer(s)

Rockstar Games

Publisher(s)

Rockstar Games

Genre(s)

Action , Adventure