Rockstar Brings Back the Iconic GTA Trailer Voice for the GTA 6 Launch Trailer

If the voice studying “Grand Theft Auto VI” on the finish of the launch trailer sounded acquainted, there’s a motive. It belongs to Jeff Berlin, the veteran announcer Rockstar Games has used to shut its trailers for years and the unofficial voice of Grand Theft Auto. Geoff Keighley confirmed it, calling out considered one of his favourite elements of the GTA 6 launch trailer. “They introduced again veteran announcer Jeff Berlin to voice the title, similar man who did GTA4 and 5,” Keighley wrote. “What an incredible two decade legacy.”

Berlin just isn’t an in-game character actor. He’s an expert radio imaging producer and voice-over artist, the type of voice stations and networks rent for his or her on-air identification. His common shoppers embrace A&E and Fox Sports activities Radio. He spent years because the imaging voice of Boston’s Kiss 108 and his personal bio lists Rockstar amongst his shoppers and nonetheless describes him because the voice of Grand Theft Auto IV.

The trailer voice is its personal custom. Keighley’s phrase covers GTA IV, Grand Theft Auto V and now GTA 6, the three he named immediately, however his historical past with GTA and Rockstar runs again additional than that. Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas carries an specific “Trailer V.O.” credit score for Berlin in public credit databases. From then on, the identical deep voice closing a GTA trailer with the title and score grew to become a Rockstar signature.

Curiously sufficient, most of Berlin’s documented GTA work just isn’t the trailers in any respect. It’s the radio. He has voiced and produced in-game station imaging throughout the sequence, from Flash FM in Grand Theft Auto: Vice City to Head Radio and Rise FM in Grand Theft Auto: Liberty Metropolis Tales, Integrity 2.0 in GTA IV and The Ballad of Gay Tony, then Radio Mirror Park in GTA V. He additionally recorded in-game commercials going again to the early titles. Rockstar has simply revealed GTA 6’s first six radio stations, the guts of the sequence’ sound and the a part of GTA Berlin has labored on for over twenty years. His turning up on the trailer feels much less like a cameo and extra like a homecoming.

Followers have lengthy heard the identical voice on earlier trailers, going again to Grand Theft Auto III in 2001 and GTA: Vice Metropolis in 2002, however we do not see any publicly accessible credit for Jeff Berlin for these titles. Additionally, Rockstar has used an identical deep-voiced title learn on the Pink Useless Redemption launch trailer and, once more, there isn’t a credit score or assertion tying Berlin to these. Each dependable supply, his own bio included, retains his Rockstar work inside GTA.

So the voice on the finish of the launch trailer is a thread connecting the PS2 period classics to GTA 6. Most individuals won’t know the identify Jeff Berlin. But, a lot will really feel the familiarity anyway, which is the entire level of protecting him because the voice who will welcome followers for GTA 6 because it launches on November 19.