GTA 6 launch gallery: 39 new screenshots, and what each one shows

Rockstar has posted 39 new Grand Theft Auto VI screenshots in an official launch gallery, two weeks before the game comes out on November 19. The Newswire post is short: "only two weeks away", and a link to the full set. No new features came with it. The pictures do the talking, so here is what they say.

Everything below the pictures is split the usual way: what is confirmed is in the screenshot, and anything marked our guess is us reading into it.

Jason and Lucia, at work

Seven of the 39 shots are of the pair together, and most of them are working. One is a hold-up at a shop counter. In another the two of them are climbing out of a car with guns drawn. In a third Lucia drives a convertible while Jason leans out of the passenger side firing.

The others are quieter. There is a nightclub shot, all blue light and close dancing, and a silhouette of the two of them under a single tree at sunset. Rockstar likes to put the romance next to the crime in the same set, and this gallery does it again.

Our guess: the robbery and getaway shots look like mission scenes rather than free roam, given the staging. Rockstar has not said.

Lucia on her own

Four solo shots, and three of them have a gun in them. The standout is a close-up of her aiming a pistol straight at the camera. Another has her at the wheel of a car at night, with police lights behind her.

Jason on his own

Jason gets the most solo screenshots of anyone in the set, eight. There's Jason on a police-chased motorbike, Jason in a sparks-filled gunfight, Jason with an assault rifle and a helicopter overhead, and Jason doing bench presses with a barbell. One shot from the back seat of a car puts him with two other men in suits. Rockstar has not said who they are.

Vice City after dark

Fifteen of the shots are tagged Vice City, and most of them are at night. There is a huge nightclub crowd under a green light rig, a neon gas station, a skyline at dusk and a rooftop pool photographed straight down. There are also boats tied up on the bay in daylight, with the downtown towers behind them.

The rest are people, which is what Rockstar's Vice City sets are usually about. A man in a gold chain kneels beside a pit bull in a matching chain. A pink sports car sits on a show line with its owner on the bonnet. There's a crew posing with tattoos and vests, a crowd of women at a bar, and a man covering his face with jewelled hands while traffic burns behind him.

Outside the city

A few shots leave town, and they are some of the best in the set:

• Port Gellhorn: a neon strip club sign. Port Gellhorn is where the story starts, per Rockstar's character pages.
• Grassrivers: a camp of men around a fire, and a night shot of an airboat with its lights on the water.
• Leonida Keys: an underwater shot of a diver among coral and lionfish. That is the first time Rockstar has shown diving this clearly.

What the gallery does not tell us

No new feature list, no new map, no new character names. Rockstar named the files by place and by person, as it always does, but there are no captions. Anything beyond what is in frame is a guess, ours included.

Where these go on the site

All 39 are now in our GTA 6 screenshot folder at full size, and we will be using them across the wiki and the map. Each place in the set has a page: start at Vice City, and the map has every region pinned.

One date to fix in your diary, because it changed: Rockstar has confirmed that digital pre-load starts November 10, not November 12. On PS5 it opens at midnight in your time zone. On Xbox Series X|S it opens at 12 a.m. GMT everywhere at once. November 12 is when the code-in-box editions reach shops. The download is up to 212 GB.

See the full launch guide