On November 10, Rockstar Games dropped a new pre-load trailer for Grand Theft Auto 6. This pre-load trailer officially opens the pre-load process for the long awaited Grand Theft Auto 6. This is important for fans because it's the first real opportunity to see the quality of the animation in the game since the last controversial trailer. Fans are searching through this video for clues as to how Rockstar is thinking and how they are going to engage their players.
Rockstar Games releases trailer with smooth backflip animation as pre-loading begins
In this trailer we see a racing driver do a perfect backflip. Which is a big change to the stilted motion we saw in the last 'Extended Look' trailer. In earlier footage, the character Jason performed a very rigid and awkward flip.
This flip was widely panned by players. This new scene seems to be a cut scene/cinematic clip as opposed to gameplay.
This new animation seems to be a calculated move in response to the last animation fiasco. This at least is how Reddit users in the GTA community are reading the situation. As one user put it "they know how to handle this specific animation stuff." This implies that the developers are monitoring the player response and adapting their promotional content accordingly.
It's hard to know if they deliberately dropped the backflip in order to troll their critics. Fans still seem to take this as a direct admission of fault on their last animation performance. It's confirmed that they have opened up the pre-load for the game so players can start downloading the game files in anticipation for release date.
Source: NotebookCheck
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