Rockstar Games may have hidden Grand Theft Auto 6‘s map in an official piece of art for the game. After years of speculation and leaks, the studio finally provided its first official look at the highly-anticipated title that showed the outlandish antics of some of Leonida’s residents and introduced the game’s protagonist, Lucia, and an unnamed man as they go on a Bonnie and Clyde-esque crime spree across the state.
It had long been rumored that Grand Theft Auto 6 would return to the Miami-esque Vice City for the first time since 2002’s GTA: Vice City and its 2006 spin-off GTA: Vice City Stories, and this was confirmed in a massive leak that consisted of 90 development videos. The official, record-breaking trailer has now shown through its in-universe social media footage that the game will be leaving behind the 80s setting of the previous Vice City-set titles, and should also include a far greater map that explores the wider state of Leonida, which is very clearly inspired by Florida with many real-world locations appearing or being parodied throughout the trailer.
Accompanying Grand Theft Auto 6’s first trailer was the first official artwork for the game with its playable protagonists, Lucia and Jason sitting atop the hood of a car in Vice City. While on the surface this image was only intended to provide a greater look at the couple and a glimpse of the game’s location, highly observant fans believe it may have shown a lot more of Leonida than it seemed.
Redditor InevitableLibrary387 pointed to what they believe to be the inclusion of GTA 6’s full map on the wall of a building in the distance to the bottom right section of the image. While InevitableLibrary387’s attempt to zoom in on the image resulted in it becoming extremely pixelated, there was enough clarity in what shapes were still visible to back up their suggestion that there is “Vice Beach on the right, a city in the middle, and scattered islands around it”.
X user NikTekOfficial explored this further by using color correction and Topaz Labs’ AI-powered image-enhancing tool, Gixapixel, on the poster to make the hidden map more visible, confirming that it is an actual map with different areas of land to further support InevitableLibrary387’s theory. They then provided a comparison between the color-corrected poster and an ongoing community-driven mapping project on the GTA6 subreddit.
2023-12-19 01:41:03
Original from screenrant.com
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