A year after Rockstar Games released the second GTA VI trailer, fans are still picking through its three minutes frame by frame. The latest find is tiny, easy to miss, and exactly the kind of thing the internet loves: a background drawing that appears to echo Tommy Vercetti from GTA: Vice City.
The detail shows up around the 33-second mark, as Jason Duval robs a clothing store, slaps the clerk, and empties the register. Behind him sits a wall illustration of a lizard in a blue tropical shirt, a visual echo of Vice City’s most famous antihero. Rockstar has spent decades feeding players these little nods, and the fact that this one survived so many trailer breakdowns says more about how crowded modern game marketing has become than about the size of the easter egg itself.
The Vice City reference in the GTA VI trailer
IGN highlighted the find after a lesser-known creator, GameVerse, pointed it out. The resemblance is brief enough to feel like a blink-and-you-miss-it joke: less than a second on screen, tucked behind the robbery in a shot that most viewers would have been too busy following Jason to notice.
That kind of hidden reference is classic Rockstar. The studio has always liked using its trailers as scavenger hunts, and the audience has only gotten more determined to turn every frame into evidence.
Tommy Vercetti is not coming back
Before anyone starts building a theory board, the answer is still no: Tommy Vercetti is not expected to appear in GTA VI. Ray Liotta, who played him, died in 2022, and Rockstar has long kept the PS2-era games at arm’s length from the later entries in the series. A visual wink is one thing; a comeback is something else entirely.
- GTA VI release date: 19 November
- Platforms: PS5, Xbox Series X and S
- Pre-orders: 25 June
Rockstar’s next move is the real story
The bigger question is what Rockstar does next. Trailer analysis has become free marketing for the company, but it also raises the bar for every future reveal: if fans can still find new details in a year-old trailer, the launch campaign is going to be dissected with the enthusiasm usually reserved for moon landings and tax audits.
With the game due on 19 November and pre-orders opening on 25 June, the studio has little reason to stop the drip-feed now. Expect every new clip to be treated like a puzzle box, because Rockstar has trained players to look for secrets whether they exist or not.