Digital Foundry Evaluated New GTA 6 Trailer
Credit: Rockstar Games
The new 90-second trailer for Grand Theft Auto 6 has allowed the experts at Digital Foundry to assess the game's technical state. The main takeaway is that Rockstar appears to have finally fixed a long-standing issue with the RAGE engine related to animation.
Previous showcases of GTA VI impressed the experts at Digital Foundry, yet they also revealed an issue that has plagued every Rockstar project built on the proprietary RAGE engine—at least since the release of GTA IV in 2008.
The problem concerns animation pacing: even with a stable frame rate, the movement of the camera and characters appears jerky. This creates a misleading impression that the performance is lower than it actually is.
The GTA VI reveal trailer is free from this flaw, which has lon...



