By Ray Ampoloquio · Aug 27, 2026 Updated by Matt Gibbs · Aug 28, 2026 Players can swap Jason and Lucia mid action and their choices feed a persistent honor track that shapes how NPCs and police react.

Zoom image: GTA 6 features everything from dual-protagonist switching, a morality layer, body simulation, and relationship choices Rockstar says cut deeper than before. Grand Theft Auto VI: An Extended Look is out and it didn't take long for us to get a few things wrong , happily, if we might add , because, based on our free-roam coverage , Grand Theft Auto VI will have plenty of stuff for everyone to do. However, while we've already catalogued the open-world playground, we haven't taken the time to talk about the system that runs it yet.

Aside from showing off what players can do in Leonida , Rockstar Games gave us a look at the systems running it in real time, which, according to Rockstar co-founder Dan Houser , is the backbone of the Grand Theft Auto experience.

What Dazed described versus what the Extended Look showed

The pre-reveal pitch on the left, the confirmed footage on the right.

The biggest and most welcome reveal is how you play as Jason and Lucia . You can swap between both on the fly and the footage showed how seamless it all works. One moment, you're playing as Lucia driving, then the next moment, you're switching to Jason, leaning out to shoot.

You can even swap between them during the most mundane moments, like, for example, when one of them starts doom scrolling through their in-game phone from the passenger seat.

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