GTA 6 launch gallery

Rockstar opened a GTA 6 launch gallery on November 5, a scroll-through collection of 38 official screenshots of Vice City and the rest of Leonida, 14 days before the game unlocks on November 19. The pictures are free to view and download on Rockstar's site; no gameplay footage or new feature detail came with them.

What Rockstar posted#

The Newswire post is three sentences long and dated November 5. It reads: "Grand Theft Auto VI is now officially only two weeks away. Today, enjoy a stunning look at Vice City and beyond with a collection of new screenshots on the official site." It then points to the gallery and signs off with "See you in Leonida on November 19."

Our Newswire watcher saw the post live by 15:11 UTC on November 5, which is 00:11 KST on November 6.

What is in the gallery#

The launch gallery is titled "The Launch Gallery" and carries the line "Explore Vice City and beyond through new screenshots." Counting the images it loads, the collection breaks down by subject:

• Vice City, 15 pictures. Mostly street and waterfront scenes, plus interiors: one shot is a packed nightclub, dancers under green and blue light with a disco ball and hanging vines above the DJ booth.
• Jason Duval, 9 pictures. Portrait and mid-action shots of Jason on his own, several of them close enough to read his face and clothes.
• Lucia Caminos, 4 pictures. One of them is a night close-up of Lucia holding a pistol at her chest with the red and blue lights of a police cruiser behind her.
• Jason and Lucia together, 6 pictures. Includes the pair in a white convertible with the top down at night, neon reflections on the paint.
• Grassrivers, 2 pictures. A man with a large snake over his shoulders outside a roadside bar at dusk, and a misty swamp at night with an alligator in the foreground water.
• Leonida Keys, 1 picture. An underwater reef scene with a lionfish and a manatee.
• Port Gellhorn, 1 picture. An interior shot of a neon-lit club.

Rockstar's media page lists the same files alongside its older set, now 201 screenshots and artwork images in total.

Is Kodak Black in GTA 6?#

One Vice City picture drew more attention than the rest. In Rockstar's file Vice_City_25, a man in a plain white T-shirt sits in a pink-lit club between two women, a gold chain with an octagonal pendant reading "1800" around his neck and a white cup with a "JH" logo in his hand, while people around him hold out banknotes. We matched the picture news sites circulated to that file in Rockstar's own gallery.

IGN wrote on November 5 that rapper Kodak Black "has been confirmed to be featured as an NPC in GTA 6 via a new batch of screenshots," and reads the cup's logo as the Jack of Hearts, a club in the game that Travis Scott name-drops in "RHYNO". The gallery itself has no captions, and Rockstar's post names no one. The likeness is the only evidence so far: Rockstar has not said who the character is or whether Kodak Black worked on the game.

These pictures are new to our gallery#

Before today none of the 38 appeared on our official screenshot gallery, which catalogued the 39 pictures Rockstar had published earlier. We added one of the new Vice City interiors (the nightclub) to the gallery today, so it now holds 40 pictures, all credited to Rockstar with a link to the source.

Every picture has to be checked and captioned by hand, and we would rather spread that over the next two weeks than do it in one night, so the rest of the collection is not in our gallery yet.

What is left before launch#

The gallery is the third Rockstar launch-window post in a week, after the original score by Justice on October 29 and pre-load on November 10 on November 3. The remaining dates:

• November 10: pre-load opens, midnight local time on PS5 and midnight GMT on Xbox, up to 212GB.
• November 12: code-in-box copies reach retailers.
• November 19: the game unlocks, with the hour depending on your region.

The release date guide tracks the full schedule and the release time guide has the unlock hour for each region.

Where to see them#

The full collection is at rockstargames.com/VI/launch-gallery. Our screenshot gallery keeps the pictures we have catalogued so far, grouped by place, with full-size downloads.