GTA 6’s 39 New Screenshots Make Me Want to Ignore the Main Story

Rockstar just gave us 39 more GTA 6 screenshots, and I have a problem: every new look at Leonida makes me less confident I’ll follow the first mission marker.

The new GTA 6 launch gallery includes Jason and Lucia, plenty of Vice City, and glimpses beyond it. With the November 19 launch getting close, these images have me thinking about the first thing I’ll do when the game finally lets me loose.

I’m probably going to drive in the wrong direction.

What’s in the new GTA 6 screenshot gallery?

Rockstar’s latest batch adds 39 screenshots to its official collection. There are new images of Jason and Lucia together, individual shots of both characters, and a large set labeled Vice City. The gallery also includes looks at the Leonida Keys, Port Gellhorn and the Grassrivers.

You can browse the full official gallery here. It’s worth opening at full size instead of judging the world from tiny social media crops.

Vice City looks like a place to get lost

I want to see Jason and Lucia’s story. I also know exactly how I play GTA: I start a mission, notice a road I haven’t taken, and return to the plot three hours later in a car I definitely didn’t buy.

That’s what these screenshots do for me. The character images are great, but all those new Vice City views make me want to explore the spaces between missions. I want to find the neighborhood I’d actually hang out in, drive until the radio gives me a favorite song, and see what the city feels like when I’m doing absolutely nothing productive.

And then there’s the rest of Leonida

Vice City gets most of the attention, understandably. But Rockstar also included the Leonida Keys, Port Gellhorn and Grassrivers in this batch.

That’s my launch-day dilemma. Do I stay in the city and follow the story, or head out just to see how different the rest of the state feels? I’m particularly tempted by the Keys. Give me a vehicle, a road south and no deadline.

GTA GOD’s launch-day plan

I’ll play enough of the opening to understand what Jason and Lucia are doing. Then I’m taking the first reasonable opportunity to disappear for a while.

That’s the fun of a new GTA world. We’ve spent years analyzing trailers and zooming into screenshots. Soon we’ll be able to turn a corner ourselves and find something nobody thought to put in a preview.

My first big decision in GTA 6 might be choosing which direction to drive. Rockstar’s new gallery has made that decision much harder.