By GTA 6 is two weeks away, and Rockstar has marked the moment with the Launch Gallery: a new page on the official site with more than 35 fresh screenshots of Vice City and the rest of Leonida. It went up on November 5 at rockstargames.com/VI/launch-gallery with a short note from Rockstar: “See you in Leonida on November 19.” It’s the biggest single batch of images since the official site opened, and very likely the last one before release.
The Launch Gallery in short
| What | Details |
|---|---|
| Published | November 5, 2026 |
| Where | rockstargames.com/VI/launch-gallery |
| Images | Over 35 new screenshots |
| Who’s in them | Jason, Lucia, new characters, gangs, clubs, Grassrivers, the Keys, Port Gellhorn |
| All of them | Sorted by theme on our Launch Gallery page |
What’s in it
The gallery leans hard on the two leads. Jason gets nine shots of his own: a sports bike chase with a police car right behind him, a mall robbery on dirt bikes, a gas station standoff with officers closing in, a gym session and two face-offs with local crews. Lucia gets four close-ups with a pistol, and together they rob an office in bandana masks and shoot their way out of a traffic jam in a convertible.
The rest is the world around them. There’s a hotel pool seen from straight above, a marina, a neon gas station at dusk, a police boat chase through the canals, a car meet, three different clubs, a gang with face tattoos and a man with a snake around his neck next to a dead alligator in the swamps of Grassrivers. One frame goes under the sea off the Leonida Keys, with a diver over a reef.
The details people are talking about
Within hours fans had picked out the small things. One of the club screenshots shows a man with face tattoos and a big pendant between two women, and much of the internet decided it’s the rapper Kodak Black; we’ve written that up as a separate story. Another shows a bearded man with a pistol in the back seat of a car, and fans are already comparing his face to a known actor.
There are gameplay hints too. The night panorama of Vice City has a drawbridge in the raised position, the gym shot is the first official look at workouts, and the reef shot is the clearest sign so far that you can dive. None of this is spelled out by Rockstar, but each frame is a lot more specific than a trailer cut.
Why it matters now
The timing isn’t random. Pre-load opens on November 10, so the gallery lands right before people start clearing 212 GB on their consoles. As a technical artist, I’d add that the images look like they came out of the game’s photo mode: real depth of field, lens flare and film grain, not polished promo renders. If that’s what the photo mode can do, launch week is going to be full of very good screenshots.
We’ve put every image from the gallery, sorted by theme and with notes on each, on our Launch Gallery page. The best ones are also spread across our wiki, in the articles they fit.
FAQ
When did Rockstar release the GTA 6 Launch Gallery?
On November 5, 2026, two weeks before the game’s release on November 19.
What does the GTA 6 Launch Gallery show?
Jason and Lucia in robberies and chases, Vice City by day and night, clubs, gangs, the Grassrivers swamps and a dive off the Leonida Keys.
Does the GTA 6 Launch Gallery show diving?
One screenshot shows a diver with a torch over a reef off the Leonida Keys. Rockstar hasn’t described diving in words, but the frame is the clearest hint so far.