13 days to GTA 6: the story begins in Port Gellhorn, a faded Gulf Coast beach town
Thirteen days out. Today's confirmed fact: Rockstar says Jason and Lucia's story begins in Port Gellhorn, not Vice City. What Rockstar has said about the town, and what the screenshots show.
Thirteen days. Today: where you start.
Confirmed
Not in Vice City. Rockstar says Jason and Lucia's story begins in Port Gellhorn, a once-popular Gulf Coast beach town gone to seed. Its own description is a population running on cheap liquor and truck-stop energy drinks, in a place where pills are easier to find than fun.
The official screenshots show dusk over a row of motels, neon at night, a fist fight outside a motel and a backyard wrestling ring. The Extended Look's wrestling clip is set here.
Our guess
Starting small is a Rockstar habit. GTA V opened in a snowbound bank job and then dropped you in Los Santos. Red Dead 2 spent hours in the mountains before you saw a town. Port Gellhorn looks like the same move: show the bottom of Leonida first, so Vice City lands harder when you get there.
It also fits Rockstar's premise that an easy score goes wrong. The south of the map is where the easy scores are, from Port Gellhorn's motels to the smuggling routes in the Leonida Keys.
More on Port Gellhorn, and Bama drove the whole state for a south-to-north road trip. Tomorrow: the album.
Quick answers
Where does the GTA 6 story start?
In Port Gellhorn, according to Rockstar: a once-popular Gulf Coast beach town gone to seed. Vice City comes later.
Is Port Gellhorn based on a real place?
Rockstar has not named a real town. It describes a faded Gulf Coast beach resort with cheap motels and shuttered attractions.
Sources: Rockstar Games: Port Gellhorn · Rockstar Games: Grand Theft Auto VI
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