Grand Theft Auto 6's Leonida Keys May House the Game's Best…

Right after announcing a major delay for Grand Theft Auto 6, Rockstar Games revealed the game's second trailer yesterday without any prior warnings. Given that GTA 6 was originally announced in 2023 and has been absent for more than a year up to this point, the fact that this trailer was dropped out of nowhere is surprising, to say the least. GTA 6's new trailer has received tens of millions of views in just a few hours on sites like YouTube, and it's set social media platforms around the world on fire. As if the trailer wasn't already exciting enough, though, Rockstar Games has also provided a bucketload of new details about GTA 6 on its official website.

Even though the game is still more than a year away from being released, Rockstar has shared a surprising amount of info on the plot, characters, and setting of GTA 6, including its protagonists. Grand Theft Auto 6 is going to take place in the fictional U.S. State of Leonida, which was inspired by Florida, and it will feature a number of explorable new regions, like Vice City, Grassrivers, Port Gellhoun, and Ambrosia. One of the more interesting locations in the game, however, is a place called Leonida Keys, which is aptly named after the real-life Florida Keys. If GTA 6 is as ambitious as it seems, this location may have one of the best side activities in the entire game: diving.

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The Underwater Environments in GTA 6's Leonida Keys Seem to Be Very Detailed

To the surprise of many, Rockstar has shared more than 70 new screenshots of GTA 6 on its website, most of which depict places, scenes, and characters that weren't fully shown in the game's second trailer. A handful of the more interesting screenshots, though, come from the site's Leonida Keys section. According to Rockstar's official description of the region, Leonida Keys is a tropical archipelago that has "some of the most beautiful and dangerous waters in all of America." To accompany this information, Rockstar has provided a couple of images showcasing the oceans in this area.

Judging by what Rockstar has revealed of Leonida Keys so far, it appears that swimming activities and underwater environments will receive a major overhaul compared to previous installments in the GTA series. On the GTA 6 website, one of the images for Leonida Keys depicts a scuba diver who's swimming in an ocean filled with underwater wildlife, such as eels, turtles, coral, and fish. If this is actually representative of what bodies of water in GTA 6 will look like, then it's likely that underwater exploration in the game will be a lot more enjoyable than it's ever been, and scuba diving could be a proper form of side content.

Swimming Has Been Present in GTA Games for a Long Time, But it Could Be Better than Ever in GTA 6

Although swimming and underwater exploration have been present in the Grand Theft Auto games for quite some time, these two features were quite simplistic in the series' earlier installments. The ability to swim underwater was first introduced in 2004's Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, where it wasn't that useful for anything other than hiding from authorities. In Grand Theft Auto 5, however, the series' swimming mechanics were given some major upgrades. In the game, players can not only go scuba diving whenever they feel like, they can also hunt for underwater treasure and compete in swimming triathlons.

Even though Rockstar hasn't confirmed if these swimming features will return in GTA 6, it looks like the game's oceans will be far more realistic than any of their GTA 5 and San Andreas counterparts. Grand Theft Auto 6 seems to be taking full advantage of current-gen hardware to simulate high densities of wildlife and fauna that wouldn’t be possible in any of the series’ previous games. This may be a sign that GTA 6’s Leonida Keys will be filled with swimming-related side activities, perhaps even more so than in GTA 5. However, assuming that players actually have landmarks to look at while underwater, and sea life both big and small, it is scuba diving that could be the most engaging form of optional content within the open-world title.